skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In short: the equirectangular projection distorts things, making countries closer to the poles look bigger while countries closer to the equator look smaller; the azimuthal projection accounts for this.

This isn't quite right. Equirectangular projections stretches things sideways near the poles. So a country that's very circular that is near the poles will be a wide flat oval in in the projection. Consider a circular tarp that's dropped just a few feet from the South pole. It will stretch just thousands of a degree of latitude, but will stretch a hundred or more degrees of longitude.

This is actually something that the much-maligned Mercator projection is actually good at. A circle on the globe will be a circle on the map. A circle near the poles will be a much, much bigger circle than a circle near the equator, but since you're talking about the ratios, to a significant extent the differences will cancel out.

The azimuthal projection is not a global projection. Unlike Mercator, you can't just slap the whole world into an azimuthal projection and expect to get a globally useful map. You're not going to hang a map of the entire world in an azimuthal projection in a classroom, for instance. But for a local areas, say, just one single country, an azimuthal projection will be direction preserving from the central point, which is a useful property. So what the paper does, is if you have 200 countries or whatever, it defines 200 different azimuthal projections that are only useful in and around each country. And it uses each country's own projection to calculate how circular it is.

The author declined to mention specifically which azimuthal projection they're using, which is unfortunate. Azimuthal means that direction from a central point are preserved. If this azimuthal projection is also equidistant, meaning equal distances from the central point are equal in the projection, then they're golden.
What if the parents believe in god's creation of the universe and the science teachers want to teach evolution?

Or vice-versa?
As a child of parents who did no have my best interests at heart, I'm going to whole heartedly disagree. I learned much better how to be from school than I ever did my parents.
I don't need to be managed, thanks. Give me credentials and a live CD.
Indoctrination is when you're inculcated with a doctrine. That's not what happened with the children described in the article.

But if you mean affecting children's values and social outlook, then indeed, teachers do that. Sometimes they do it unconsciously, in which case it's typically the prevailing social values, explicit and implicit, which children are imbued with; sometimes it's more conscious.
There's a common argument from craftsmen embedded in here. When something decreases accessibility of something difficult, the people who already know how to do the difficult thing criticize it, because from their eyes, it brings the average quality down. But ease and accessibility always win.

This goes for IDEs, programming languages, frameworks, etc. Think of a language like PHP, which made it so easy to code that countless shitty websites were made, ridden with spaghetti code and security issues. But, I was amongst probably tens of thousands of script kiddies who cut our teeth on PHP and eventually learned how to "properly" build web products. My first startup's MVP was a giant functions.php file and a bunch of templates, FTP'd onto a VPS. Probably wouldn't have gotten into it if instead I had needed to learn something like C++ or Java.

Yes, making something easier to do decreases the quality on average. But even skilled professionals can benefit from better accessibility. And it's hard to quantify the full benefit to those who wouldn't have been able to do the work without the lower barrier.

Personally, yes, I know if I blindly use Github Copilot I'll prob write some shitty code. But it just makes everything easier/faster to do. So I use it and put in a tiny bit of extra effort to make sure I'm not abusing it. And it's game-changing. I'm also sure tools like Copilot will improve at a pace that is much faster than people expect. It will recognize deprecated calls, misused calls, errors, security holes, etc.
Study finds correlation not causation
If it worked, they'd study it to find out what the interaction was or if it was a metabolite that carried the action. Then they'd develop a targetted version of that drug, patent it, and cash in.

It doesn't work. So they haven't.

A good example is major clinical depression and ketamine.
Ask HN: What to do when you learn someone's credentials have leaked?
How can i reach Gmail and other megacorps to let them know an account was probably compromised? These people don't even have a contact form...

Long story: So i was hanging out on this perfectly legit forum when a sketchy person started to ask if we could provide them 1TB storage that they could pay for but would rather go with a friendly transaction rather than through a business. Sounds nice so far, maybe a fellow FLOSS hacker has too much stuff to backup?

They claimed it was 1TB of logs which raised our suspicions but they said it was all legit and we could look through it they wouldn't mind. So we got a 2MB sample zip but inside were stolen credentials from a third person, as well as - you guessed it - malware named "Passwords.txt.lnk". It looks like the credentials were compiled by a malware called Redline.

So now i have tons of passwords for this poor 3rd party but no way to contact them to let them know they've been pwned. Any ideas? I thought about contacting gmail & others so they can probably SMS this person, but for most of those accounts i could not find contact info for the sysadmins or security team.

Going to the police is probably not gonna help and might get me and other friendly people in trouble for accessing this data in the first place so i'm not going for that. To be clear, i haven't tested any of these credentials but i'm assuming they're real since the usernames/passwords have some resemblance yet subtle variations.

What would you do?
Just a downvote and no reply. Shocked I tell you! Shocked!
Even as someone who was put into an extremely strict religious school specifically to be indoctrinated with views that I now detest, and who generally takes a dim view of parents' knowledge and ability, I'm inclined to agree with this. I think there is significant value for children to share the value system of their parents while they are growing up, even if they later reject those values. Parents are more likely than teachers to have their children's best interests in mind.
> Stating this all as fact until proven is irresponsible.

"Anyways, all allegations, and thousands of pages so I've no doubt got some parts wrong, but it makes for interesting reading!" - from my note.

This is reddit type response, where you assert something in my post that is simply not there. Kind of shameful really.
It depends on how you define "democracy".

I'm not inclined to participate in an argument about it here, but there are valid points of view other than the one you assert.
Yeah, you can look at it that way. It depends on your starting position economically. There bottom steps on the economic ladder are missing. Cheap entry level homes near economic centers or good paying jobs in low cost of living areas are both missing. The working poor have tax breaks and see some public benefits, high earners have good tax breaks and no benefits.
Its a multimedia framework. It can do everything in that domain, decoding, muxing, rendering, etc.
I think he had to take a break. Ran out of microchips. Nice to know he's got a backup plan.
> do you think this will actually happen? On what scale?

One thing certain about wars is that they never go as planned. WW2 being the biggest example.

Lets entertain ourselves with following scenario:

Russian fighter-bombers wade into Polish airspace running away from Ukrainian airforce, and launches a missile in anger at Polish MiG.

Poland president then instantly calls art. 5. What happens next?

An art.5 invokation in no laughing matter. If the US will render it hollow, NATO falls apart in an instant. It would not be like art.5 invokation by Bush: the circumstances are completely different.

Even before Trump, NATO's fundamentals been squeaky. Allgedly, US has secret arrangements with core NATO countries to renege on honouring art.5 if invoked by Turkey.

If the above is indeed true, then there us no wonder why I felt that EU started entertaining the idea of "EuroCorps" right around that time.
The whole thing is wall-to-wall innuendo. There's no hard facts in here anywhere.
> Developers by the very nature of their job are OK with torture,

Not if you're a back-end coder or a system admin/DevOps. You might tolerate some level of torture, but you for sure won't be happy about it. Ripping out Cortana, Edge and the Windows 10 start menu are literally the first items on my "setting up a new machine" checklist.

Aside from that, I have never been okay with Teams (beyond voice calls, that's the one thing I'll defend them on) or SharePoint, even if I do have to use both occasionally. It's not like I have any say, but when I have a chance to say my piece, I complain about them openly.

So far, doing most of my work on a Linux VM on a laptop that was well managed by the internal IT team (and with local admin permission granted as needed) was the only reason why I put up with the nonsense that was Windows 10 anywhere.
There were stories over the years that I wanted to write but didn't get approval. Anything that might instigate a political discourse was discouraged, for example, such as a story about holding an event about wireless network connectivity in an area where locals struggled to get even basic phone service.

I mean, there have been times where PR have been rude and incorrigible. Nothing to the extent that it'd be worth putting them on loudspeaker for, as that'd gut any future relationship, and sometimes it's down to one person in the chain causing the fuss, not the culture.

Part of what I've learned at AnandTech is how these chains of command work - you're not speaking with Company X, you're speaking to Person A on behalf of company X, and sometimes the information they are feeding you goes through 15 hands before it gets to you and if there's a bad apple in that chain, it could cause it all to go pear shaped. That's also part of the 'behind the curtain' I've tried to showcase in my reporting, rather than just simply dealing with a big box with company logo on it that prints money.

Part of the balance you describe is, in my mind, simply the result of reporting on people. If you stick to the science, the research, there's less room for disagreement.

Then again, Samsung stopped sampling us smartphones because every Snapdragon/Exynos review we did, with industry standard tests and power measurements, showed Snapdragon ahead for several years. They felt it wasn't in their best interests to sample us anymore, so we ended up buying the hardware after launch. At least, that was the PR team who didn't want to talk. The SoC team still wanted our input, but the way Samsung works, it was always difficult to have those discussions. Compare that to Samsung Foundry, who have invited me to consecutive industry events to learn about new features - they loved the coverage, and the questions I ask. Same company, different BUs, different media list, different blacklists.

Perhaps it's worth a book. When I'm retired.
Whenever I hear the term "Project Manager", and imagine all of the confusion collectively experienced by anyone who has had to explain that job, I think of Mr Burns from the Simpsons saying "Am I that out of touch? No, it's the KIDS who are wrong".

Let's call it "Project Coordinator" or "Project Advocate" or something.
Even the dumbest ideas can sound reasonable if written in an academic way.
The amputation epidemic is a diabetes epidemic that's a horrible standard American diet epidemic.
In the places I've lived, those school systems have locally-elected folks running them.

It should be an easy matter of local politics, not media hysteria and state-level laws...

Or in the case of my own upbringing, my first ten years of school was at a school was run by a church and my parents had every opportunity to be aware of the church's beliefs. A decade or so later, they apologized for me, they told me they hadn't realized how extreme some of the religious aspects of the curriculum were, but had found out more slowly over the years...

I don't understand how/why parents let themselves be suddenly surprised by things, seems like you should pay attention from day 1!
> you should just bite the bullet and make everything red

An asynchronous 1+1 sounds ridiculous.
That's a reasonable position, and I think a good conclusion to a constructive debate.

Whether it's unfair to single out SQL Server -- I don't think it is. SQL Server is one of the foundations of modern IT infrastructure, and it should be held to the highest standard. This is clearly a chink in the armor, and Microsoft seems to be aware of it.

Thanks to your pushback, I have refined my argument and will publish a significantly revised version of it on SQL Server Central (https://www.sqlservercentral.com/) on March 2. There is a preview at https://www.galliumdata.com/articles/can-we-please-stop-send... in case you're curious.

I respect your expertise, and I appreciate your civility. Thank you.
> " Into their coffee shops and houses, the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

I share your take-away in general. But at least in this case though, the parents of these kids probably [publicly] align with the ideology of the teachers, although I think it's reasonable to suspect many of them privately have other opinions (I derive this belief from the fact that these are affluent white families who chose to send their kids to a primarily white and affluent after-school program. These families may talk the talk, but are they walking the walk?)

> Hilltop is located in an affluent Seattle neighborhood, and, with only a few exceptions, the staff and families are white; the families are upper-middle class and socially liberal.
Title is totally misleading. I use Rstudio, which is an IDE, and there's none of those "terrible" features in Copilet. Does it make my code terrible?
In essence you can build this using a software defined radio, and open source tooling like srsUE/srsRAN to decode the air interface packets [0].

The gotcha is you can't easily decrypt your own "data" over the air, as the keys you need are resident in the SIM card, and can't be extracted (Ki and OPc being the two symmetric keys you need for LTE)

What you can do though is use srsUE to connect to a network as a piece of user equipment through an SDR, and you can connect a real SIM card to your PC using a standard PCSC smartcard reader [1].

If you have a couple of SDRs, you can run your own eNodeB (4G base station) and run your own "mini network". Obviously watch out for spectrum licensing rules, as handsets only work on certain bands, which are probably all licensed out and illegal to use without spectrum licencing. Some options with light/"zero" licensing are emerging - the UK, US, Germany, Sweden and some others have shared spectrum in bands that work for 5G. The open source ecosystem isn't quite there yet, but it's not a million miles away.

This should get you towards an "LTE wireshark" as you were looking for.

[0] https://docs.srsran.com/en/latest/usermanuals/source/srsue/s...

[1] https://docs.srsran.com/en/latest/usermanuals/source/srsue/s...
I don't want school to teach my children anything about beliefs or what the teachers/admins believe. I want school to teach my child art and language and facts, and leave the beliefs to me.
these teachers are unhinged. exactly the kind of meddling full-of-themselves adults I resented as a kid.

hey, maybe the reason why they are so territorial about these lego bricks is because they are forced to attend this institution and they have very little control over their environment. it's one of the few resources they can control and use to express their creativity. and those kids who are the most territorial are the ones with the most emotional investment. you're god damned right they don't want other kids using the special bricks.

>We also discussed our beliefs about our role as teachers in raising political issues with young children. We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity — whether we interceded or not. We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.

lord give me strength. imagine being locked in a room for 8 hours a day with these ideologues.

>Now, with Legotown dismantled and the issues of equity and power squarely in front of us, we took up the idea of power and its multiple meanings. We began by inviting the children to draw pictures of power, knowing that when children represent an idea in a range of “languages” or art media, their understandings deepen and expand. “Think about power,” said Kendra. “What do you think ‘power’ means? What does power look like? Take a few minutes to make a drawing that shows what power is.”

these kids are just going to learn to parrot back whatever insipid egalitarian ideas the teachers want them to say, so they can be left alone and go back to playing with legos.

it actually reads like some kind of clunky propaganda fable a libertarian might write about Why Collectivism Is Bad. but no, it's real. one of these kids will grow up to be the next Pinochet and cite this episode as the moment he was radicalized.
That’s only a solution if you think there aren’t any genuine trust issues in hiring people with criminal records.
Why not print more money to fix wealth inequality?
Better than an alternative? Probably not. Worth using at all? Sure, if the data supports that conclusion. In particular, a lot of labs have been trying a wide variety of drugs to see if any have efficacy against covid. Ivermectin... just doesn't.

Here are three meta-analyses indicating that an SSRI with an expired patent (fluvoxamine) is potentially effective at reducing hospitalization rates for covid:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.17.21268008v...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35118917/
It’s not mutually exclusive though right? For instance, google search has auto complete/recommendation to nearly any query. I use that when helpful and know when to ignore it as well and type in my entire query. (Genuinely curious as I don’t use these IDE features.)
They must not be in an earthquake zone. The BART transbay tunnel has giant rubber flexible joints between segments.
> In previous centuries, there were plenty of jobs with low trust requirements

These still exist in the modern era, primarily in industries with high turnover like the restaurant industry, farm labor, and other unsavory industries such as meat processing.
I’ve found dropping an upvote and the comment usually triggers a response
Ship carrying 1,100 Porsche and 189 Bentley luxury cars is burning and adrift
I have a largish white board (thanks home office) on which I summarize a (sub)section of a book / online course in my own handwriting / symbols / diagrams after reading / watching it first and doing the summarizing on a second run (after which I take a photo and save it to a doc on the topic).

This method has helped me commit quite a lot of conceptual information into long term memory - but - it is time consuming.

If I ever need to refresh my memory on a topic, I pull up the photo and redraw it - sometimes adding or changing things a bit - then take photo again. Rinse and repeat.
The facial communication is only necessary because we're negotiating as two people who want to go where the other one is. When it comes to bots they can be forever deferential and always yield to humans.
Kiwi bots aren't (weren't?) actually AI controlled. They had human drivers in South America that controlled them remotely. If one attacked you, it was either the human driver going agro, or just a problem with the latency of the camera -> cell network -> streamed to South America -> driver inputs command -> sent back to the US -> over the cell network -> back to the bot. And the cameras they have were pretty bad (the ordering app would show you the camera view when the bot was nearing its destination.)
I have no idea. It kind of reminds me of a Yes Prime Minister sketch where he's not sure if he'd push the button.

The impression I get from what I know is that Putin is the sort of person who really could push the button, if he felt it would help him somehow, but I'm not sure to what extent I can trust my sources.
Children have had free play for millennia. Supervised play in after-school programs like the one described in the article is relatively new.
My point was not so much about the distinction between nature and development, although I think the distinction is far from artifictial (depending perhaps on what one means by "nature" and "development"). Rather, I was reacting to the seemingly common view that deserts are somehow worse than e.g. forests and that a naturalist would want to turn a desert green.

As far as your second point, that it is possible to improve our environment in ways that are reasonably ecologically-friendly, I generally agree. What constitutes environmental improvement vs damage will vary considerably from person to person however, and some things we may collectively view as improvements are much easier to implement than to reverse, so in fragile ecosystems (e.g. much of the desert in southwest US) we should think very carefully about whether our improvements are really a good idea.
Sure, but as the species that claims greater intelligence, surely the onus is on the humans to not put themselves into a situation where they become a meal. Blindly shooting at an unknown target doesn't exactly suggest taking this responsibility seriously. I'd have been a-ok with the leopard making a meal of him for his foolishness.

If we take it as a given that animals have no morality, or at least different morality than our own, surely it's incumbent upon us to act accordingly among them.

Incidentally: while backpacking on Isle Royale, which has a robust wolf/moose ecosystem I asked a ranger why the wolves didn't just eat the plentiful, slow, weak humans instead of the moose. The ranger said humans aren't tasty to wolves.
Once you start dealing with small numbers (e.g. 2% versus 3%) then you would need far, far more patients to reach statistical significance.

It's tempting to look at things like 8 people visiting the ICU in one group but only 6 people in the other group and see that 6 < 8, but the problem is that it's too small of a sample size to decide if it's significant. The article covers that:

> There were no significant differences between ivermectin and control groups for all the prespecified secondary outcomes

The only one that almost comes close is death rate:

> The 28-day in-hospital mortality rate was similar for the ivermectin and control groups (3 [1.2%] vs 10 [4.0%]; RR, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.09 to 1.11; P = .09)

If this was the only Ivermectin study out there, it would be worth following up on. But it's not, and when this is added to the rest of the (not-retracted) studies it doesn't really change the picture.

At this point it matters less and less anyway. Countries that already tried Ivermectin at scale are starting to abandon the approach. Legitimately effective COVID drugs like Paxlovid with highly significant differences are becoming readily available. It's time to stop grasping at straws and accept that it doesn't work.