skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't link a "peer reviewed, reproduced, double blind study". You linked a meta-analysis of other studies. One that admits near it's conclusion

"[...]the trends really are in ivermectin’s favor, but once you eliminate all the questionable studies there are too few studies left to have enough statistical power to reach significance."

Maybe it's nothing, but maybe it's something. So again, why is your burden of proof less than mine? I don't have any studies of my own, I assume you don't either, nor the resources to conduct them. All I hinted at that there was a seeming connection between an off-patent drug that had gotten an exceptional amount of hubbub. It's interesting how aggressively this argument is fought, considering there's a lot of drugs/medicines that are similar in structure and have similar but notably different effect. If this drug is just ivermectin designed more accurately for the coronavirus's protein structures, that should be lauded! It's a family of drugs with a safe track record! But instead it ignites a fiery debate filled with spite-filled comments.

Get it?
It has to be coupled with guided shells... If EXACTO 12.7mm rounds are possible, 20mm rounds must be easily possible, and if produced by the millions per month, should come cheap just as any electronics does. Should massively decrease amount of ammo to be used against one incoming missile and increase capability of the system.
> "Real engineers"? This is a Googleism and their caste system of "real engineers" and "software reliability engineers". The rest of the industry doesn't coddle their precious "real engineers".

There's no such caste system at Google. SREs have the same bar as the SWEs, and plenty of people switch roles from one to other. SREs are also well-respected and I don't think anyone would consider them as _not_ real engineers.

> Designing a resilient, scalable, frugal, operateable architecture of load balancers, servers, caches, queues, dead letter queues, and all their associated metrics and alarms is absolutely "real engineering" and worth the time and attention of the same engineers that are building the core business value of their company.

You are absolutely right and that's why having people focusing on that is _really_ important. Having worked at AWS previously, I can tell you that when you force your software engineers to do everything and promote them based on _what_ they deliver without caring about the operational load, you end up with crazy oncalls and poorly-designed software. There's a reason why AWS oncalls are infamous whereas Google's are not.
Huh. I have fish balls in white sauce with potatoes on the side all the time. Sprinkled with some curry. One of my favorite dishes.

But after thinking about it I think I understand. I would never eat one fish ball on it’s own. That sounds disgusting. On the other hand, a butter sautéed fish cake is delicious. And a fish cake is more or less the same as a fish ball, just a bit different shape.
I think what most people expect is for the best students in terms of academics and passion for learning get into a “elite” school.

When the armed forces makes an “elite” unit do they let a 400lbs man in just because his dad was Navy Seal? Nope.

Places like Harvard are not elite, they are elitist.
Part 2 of this article seems to explain that to encrypt arbitrary plaintexts, those larger than 256 bytes, you should chunk your messages up, pad the last block, and encrypt with RSA-ECB.

With the code presented here and in the last article, you can make a working RSA encryption & decryption application. However, it still lacks protection from side-channel attacks.

These articles are describing something now known as "textbook" or "schoolbook" RSA, which is worth looking up.
This is almost exactly TypeScript’s worldview at the type level. It’s just structural types. The only difference is that it’s statically analyzable as a core feature.

JS is a little more complicated than that, but (sorry to tell you) so is ClojureScript, where a “map” can become a bunch of different actual data types through the course of a normal runtime.

In all cases, sending plain maps/pojos is nice but receiving them is fraught. Again TypeScript helps here by providing type guards where your parse/validation code can be statically analyzed.

Edit: and in terms of serialization, all of these languages struggle with fidelity loss. Clojure has EDN or Transit if you’re willing to incur one cost or another. But by default you’re sending out a smaller subset of types than your runtime is using, and receiving the same.
> "He ... stopped taking the subway to work because the train noise made it impossible to hear the audiobook narrators. "

He should try noise cancelling headphones! Surely one of the greatest inventions of the early 21st century.
This is your personal recruiting problem and has nothing to do with "all the best ops start as devs" statement that you made.

I have no idea how you could find true experienced sysadmins in your case. They exist though, that much I can tell you. I have 20 years of experience, I write bash, python, perl and lately mostly go. I am not a greybeard as I am just old enough to have been a junior for the greybeards that wrote linux kernel patches among other things to solve infra problems.
Isn't that precisely why it works? Any life change you make where you have an out, you're likely to bail the first time it goes a little bit wrong. When I'm thinking about decisions like this, I remember one of the battles in Romance of the Three Kingdoms where the general (sorry, forgetting who) just deliberately leaves his army with their back to the water to make it clear, the only way is forward.
Me speculation is Lithuania is ‘taking one for the team’ (EU) and doing what others are reluctant to. Any benefits from Taiwan - lithuania engagement will spill over to the block I guess. Kudos to them nevertheless
Missing from the article is a warning about how hard it actually is to make RSA secure. There are a _ton_ of footguns that are easy to miss which can result in a totally broken implementation. So, nifty article and all - but there really should be a disclaimer that an actual implementation is an order of magnitude more complex once you take into account all of those gotchas.
> The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water ports, lack of self sustainable regional security, and general difficulty getting goods to markets is going to leave Africa seriously capital poor.

Do you have spruces to back up these claims?
In my parents area of the US, Bell had a monthly charge for 'touch-tone' dialing. My father always held out, but eventually they sent him a voucher for replacing their rotary phones. I've only seen rotary-to-mobile adapters as a hipster accoutrement.

They are in this age range and now prefer to call people on their iPad.
Ahh I see. I would agree, still a lot of missing components.
I just wanna ask if i download ubisoft connect (gaming service) or epic game launcher, using this app, would it be easily to run? btw, I'm using linux mint.
Maybe Apple should allow anyone to locate an AirTag by sound, once it's determined that it's following that person.

Edit: it already works like that, seems like Apple thought this through
> If we embraced the benefits of active learning, our classrooms would look nothing like they do today. The average classroom is set up for passive listening. It’s geared towards consuming knowledge, not integrating it. Desks are lined up in punitive rows

To play devil's advocate, I learned actively in classrooms that looked very much like that. Mathematics, for instance, can be taught in such a way that kids at desks which are lined up to face the front can be shown a concept and then given exercises in which to apply it.

I don't remember school being at all similar to university lectures, there was far more interaction with the teacher, and far more "now lets take some time to work through examples"
Huh, it turns out that there probably are feral colonies in Appalachia (they were thought to be extinct nationwide) --- specifically because those colonies are Varroa-resistant. Super interesting.
I think that tutors like Khan of Khan Academy kind of revolutionized the shortening down of lectures. The videos are split up into smaller chunks, they're much more direct, and go straight to the point.

Andrew Ng is a bit similar. Much shorter, more dense videos.
Why, this is exactly how vaccines work - they prime (or condition) the immune system, but it is the immune system that actually do the job in case of exposure to the virus.

Vaccination is neither prevents infection nor spreading. Its about efficiency of the response.
Both delicious. Fish balls should be heated in a white sauce (based on the “sauce” from the package) and served with potatoes and with a sprinkle of curry on top.
Fish cakes are best sautéed in butter and eaten on the go imo, but you can also serve it in a brown sauce and of course with potatoes.
I think I've spent too much time on learning and also too much time in planning earlier in my career and life. I think it's a blind spot if you're an analytical type. It ends up being an excuse to not complete things. There's always something else that you "need to know" that blocks you.

Nowadays, I realize that it feels good to learn new things, but if it's not in service of an actual "deliverable" of some sort, I don't end up using it.

More recently I've gone the other way and just try to do and make things, even if I don't have an exact plan on how I'm going to do it. It ends up focusing my learning as well. Plus I'm actually more productive since I'm always focused on producing something as opposed to focusing on planning to produce something.
Show HN: Daigo - Data viz app that supports CSV, markdown and offline use
I'm very satisfied not working for software companies. My clients businesses revolve around real estate, transportation, manufacturing, etc. For them, software is a tool, not a product. Apart from stuff you mentioned, such as relaxed deadlines, it's also much more interesting for me.

When I was working for software companies, understanding the core business of our clients wasn't really that important, at least not at my position - just bunch of APIs around RDBMS, that sort of stuff.

Now I get to talk to end users and they get to talk to me, resulting in me learning a lot of stuff completely unrelated to software development (which is often exciting) and them getting something they actually want.

Also, for some reason, SCRUM was very stressful for me. No matter the actual deadlines, the everyday standups, all the organizational meetings and constant surveillance made me think that all the issues are urgent, which was rarely the case.
For an example at the extremes, you can run congressional testimony at 4x, but Andrej Karpathy or John Carmack at only 1x.

It really depends on the quality of the speaker and the content.
Basically agreed, but to me whether "new infections" matters or not hinges on the long-term effects of these different variants in vaccinated people. What's the prevalence of "long COVID" if you're vaccinated? If you're vaccinated and boosted? Is there evidence of any more or less lasting lung damage in chest X-rays than in unvaccinated people?

Hospitalization matters for short-term policy, but long-term damage could end up affecting long-term healthcare policy even more in the coming decades
It's not the idea that one might miss out on something important by not reading the great books or engaging with philosophy that I find off-putting, but rather the idea that not attending a 4-year liberal arts college deprives me of it. Nor is it sour grapes; I'm just repelled by the illogic of it.

At any rate: attendance at a 4-year university immediately after high school to pursue a liberal arts degree? A luxury, plain and simple.
It's kind of big deal when one of those countries decides to just tear down the forests. That's 20%. If a second country decides to go the same route, you're now 40%.
I just modify it directly in the console (I have to search to look up the command every time).
Reminds me of college - where you'd try to find ways to cram 4 months of lectures into 4 days. Unless you're on ADHD meds, studying 20 hours a day with laser focus, the next thing would be to take in as much information as possible...which included speeding up videos.
I hate this recent trend of shitting on paleoartists as if they have no idea what they're doing. Many species of dinosaurs had feathers. Thus far there's no evidence T. Rex did. If it did, they wouldn't be a huge coat like that due to thermal consequences.
Honestly, maybe I'm just some old, out-of-touch luddite, but I think that using videos to pass information is sub-optimal all around.

Unless we're actually showing audio-visual phenomena, a page of text is almost always more useful to me. I can absorb it at my speed. I can go back and forth within it easily. I can search it. I can copy bits out if I need to. It's just better.
Exactly. And all that computation isn't something you want to do in an exam; you just want to glance up and realise there's no need to panic. Of that you're half way through the time but not half way through the questions :-(. Either way a single-bit question.
Most of this isn't really about the speed, it's against rushing your way through as many pieces of content as possible.

If you decide a number of books per month up front, the question of how fast to read each one looks very different. Slowing down your first read will help retention to a point, but if you spend less time on the first read then you can do more spaced repetition later. Or if you read everything twice as fast, you could use the time you gain to work on projects.

And while the optimal first time speed probably isn't 3.0x, we definitely shouldn't assume it's 1.0x.
This is awful on basically every level I can think of
While I hope what you are suggesting is the case, “scientists say it is too early to draw firm conclusions” (from linked article). We just don’t know yet what the repercussions of the most recent infections are.

It seems like a pretty big gamble to not be cautious. Masking, vaccines, and avoiding indoor crowds in poorly ventilated spaces seems to be helpful. Probably best to at a minimum continue to do that until we have more concrete evidence.
Wait... Apple is still adding new stuff in Objective C?

And after about 7 years only 13% of the iOS binaries are in Swift?

Quite ironic considering Apple is constantly deprecating stuff and pushing everyone to the latest thing.
I remember seeing how these switches actually worked in a museum. Quite interesting.

https://youtu.be/xZePwin92cI?t=170
Someone on HN recommended taking a Sparketype career test, which broadly categorizes people into the two groups you mentioned.

I found it to be helpful, and OP may find value as well…
"<"/">" buttons decrease/increase playback speed (up to 2.0).
> When I get to some really dense portion though, I will turn the speed down to 1x to learn it.

An alternative that often works is to open the transcript and simply read it. If you find something unclear you can click to jump to that point. Coursera classes have this feature too.

Obviously doesn't work for everything, but it's especially useful when you want to know more about a subject you already know about (say a programming language you've used but never formally learnt).

If I can't do this I usually just close the tab -- the information rate of a video is typically quite low.
Yes, click on my bio. I'm a PhD structural biologist.
Quite a bit of that code can be eliminated if you use the 3 argument form of Python’s pow() function.

pow(a, b, n)

efficiently computes

(a ** b) % n

and

pow(a, -1, n)

finds b such that

(a * b) % n == 1
We are using hospitalizations here in Germany, but a) it's an even more lagging indicator than infections and b) as a person without a booster shot (I've only been eligible to register for one since today) I appreciate the infection rates.
Tell HN: Clicking first link in Wikipedia articles lead to Philosophy page
From xkcd's comics:

“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ‘Philosophy’.”

I tried it with Y-Combinator:

Y Combinator -> Startup accelerator -> Cohort -> Student society -> Society -> Social Group -> Social Science -> Branches of Science -> Sciences -> Scientfic Method -> Empirical Evidence -> Proposition -> Logic -> Truth -> Reality -> Object of the mind -> Object -> Philosophy
TTS ebooks at 500-600wpm is easy for me, though I usually top out at 2.5x for audiobooks. I'm not sure what the conversion factor between those is, but TTS is definitely faster.
cat theft?!

I would assume dogs have higher resale value on Craigslist
> question is whether cultural Marxism as a concept is in fact a "baseless, sweeping antisemitic conspiracy theory

When motohagiography’s direct (evidence-free) claim is that there is “zero controversy” in saying that the scholars (which he compares to liquid sewage) downstream of a (nowadays fairly obscure, 4-decades dead) Jewish scholar have secretly taken over all of academic social science – and thence the whole “public sector”, as well as tech and finance – and are sabotaging western culture/society as part of an OSS conspiracy, that becomes a baseless, sweeping, bigoted conspiracy theory.

Which is also, by the way, a complete non sequitur in the context of this discussion; it’s comparable to replying to an article about the operation of the Swiss patent office with a theory that Einstein was trained by said office to subvert academic physics departments on the way to sabotaging American engineering and technology firms.

(This kind of nonsense is entirely in character for folks spouting anti-semitic conspiracy theories, who throw them into conversations whenever they can, however irrelevant in context. See that Sartre quotation.)

Whatever someone else’s more measured and careful claims about Marcuse (or the Frankfurt school, or Marxism, or social science, or the OSS, or ...) might be in some unrelated conversation is irrelevant.
The Disappearance of the Universe, by Gary Renard
I made a similar adjustment when fully remote! I actually prefer to do other forms of exercise, but at the end of each day, if I haven't done any exercise, I just go for at least a 30 min walk. It's been surprisingly enjoyable and beneficial.
> Now we have large numbers of vaccinated out there I really think we should see a lot less of "new infections" type stats, and a lot more of "in hospitals" type stats... in places with 90-95%+ vaccination rates THAT is the numbers that are important for things like opening up/locking down.

Exactly what should be done. Instead of reporting new cases most prominently, there should be reports on how cities like SF, with 80%+ vaccination rates, have 0, or single digit death averages over the last week. For massive population centers!
This seems like an appropriate time to recommend the book West of Eden [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden].

It posits an earth where humans and dinosaurs co-exist, but the dinosaurs, having been around longer, are the dominant species.
Whatever you can say about listening to a sped-up audiobook, you can say about casually reading (or, as most people who don't nerd out about the theory of learning would put it, "reading"), so the framing of this around audiobooks seems pretty weird. Obviously, you don't master a subject by casually reading a book about it --- that's not really the premise of reading.
> When they make tests optional they can admit more Black students without having to report their test scores.

I want to make explicit that what you're describing here is racism, because I think many people have kind of lost sight of this lately.

You're saying that nothing other than the immutable biological character of one person (Black) versus another (Asian) should form the basis of preferential treatment. I find this abhorrent and wholly incompatible with the notion of a civilized, modern society.

Discrimination in favor of Blacks is racism. Period. What the author was attempting to point out (that you ignored) is that very often the Blacks being admitted are the privileged ones anyway, while highly underprivileged yet talented Asians are completely screwed over.

But no one cares, because the whole thing is a farce. It just needs to look good enough to appease the various despotic progressive forces dedicated to re-institutionalizing racism. This kind of system will never work. It is morally bankrupt in the extreme and it makes me sick just reflecting on it.
Flight attendants can smoke off duty if they want.

There are also other ways to limit the spread of viruses apart from vaccination, like testing, distancing, masks, ventilation, etc. There should be a gradient of choice, maybe with triage nurses at the "almost definitely need to vaccinate" end, and payroll processors at the "almost definitely would be okay with regular testing and/or other standard measures" end.
A year ago a friend encouraged me to start a podcast about the history of astronomy [0]. Talking to people who have listened to the podcast has been really eye-opening about the difference in comprehension/absorption between creating a podcast vs. listening to it.

I would notice that other podcasters in the "History of..." genre would sometimes say things like "you might remember we talked about such-and-such related thing in Episode 43..." and I would always think "how do they remember that they mentioned this particular detail dozens of episodes back?" But as I've started writing a podcast, I've found that it's a lot easier than I thought it would be. When you're writing the material vs. passively listening to it, you just have a much more intimate memory of everything you've said and it's easy to make connections across the different episodes.

I try to write the episodes to at have a few big points that I repeat throughout so that even someone passively listening will get the main message. But even still when I talk to people, they seem to have enjoyed it, but have a hard time remembering even some of the basic ideas. And I notice this with myself, too, when I listen to podcasts. Sometimes I'll be talking to someone and be reminded of some related story I heard in a podcast at one point, but when I try to recall the details, they're just not there.

So, even though I was certainly aware of it intellectually, I know have a much more visceral appreciation for the fact tha if you want to learn something deeply, there's really no substitute for doing some creative work on the subject.

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I used to eat them all the time -- and yeah they taste pretty bad. I'm the kinda guy that says flavor be damned, if I just need a quick source of protein.

They're usually sold in convenience stores quite cheaply as otsumami (booze food). Since I'm now engaged to health-food buff, the last time I reached for one, I was told to look at the ingredients list -- which was a mile long. The commonly sold variety just ain't that healthy.
Although I realize the article is about actually learning vs. skimming info, something I've realized about "2x" speed on videos is really just matching my natural rate of reading, and I speed up / slow down depending on the speed of the speaker itself.
Hey Siri, call $restaurant in $currentCity.
I jumped into embedded C and had working firmware in a couple of days. Of course I knew C but I am no expert and there was like 10 years since I've used it last time and that last time was not a firmware.
I think it's not really about the speed of the information, as long as you are able to process it, but the sheer amount of information. If you use time savings of 50 minutes to just consume more information, not much will settle in your long term memory. But if you process and repeat the information in those "saved" minutes, you'll get away with much more in the end. I think this is more the point of the author's view.
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