skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who would have though that Vladimir Putin would become the world's most successful doctor and cure the world of the pandemic overnight.

I remember when people were saying this about the George Floyd protests, to make the point that it was all media fearmongering over nothing and we'd all forget about covid in a month.

Now we're two years in and approaching 1 million deaths from covid in America alone. So that plan didn't work out.

> an experimental vaccine-like treatment

This is a very strange way to describe a vaccine.

The issue with ivermectin is that those saying it should be used along with a vaccine were vastly outnumbered by those saying it should be used instead of a vaccine. And the covid vaccine was absolutely not the only one they objected to.
Because of paywall, I'm not sure what study the wsj was referring to but there was a study in JAMA in which Norman Fenton from Queens College commented on which I found interesting:
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/study-claiming-ivermectin-...
> For those who don't know, the Daily Mail is considered "generally unreliable" by Wikipedia.

This is kind of like two pathological liars arguing over who's the bigger liar. Wikipedia is not all that reliable itself. It has a well-known political bias and junk gets through all the time. See the recent debacle over the Scots language page.
I hadn't considered this, but it rings true to me. Interesting to think about.
Apple’s chargers have long been known as over-engineered in safety and reliability, e.g. not catching fire, dealing with “dirty” power better than most, etc. Look up Big Clive’s videos on them.
Which countries are the most important? What makes them important?
That’s not what happened. The media’s responsibility was to accurately communicate that information. Instead what they did was “Lololol horsey drugs! You silly horse people” which was false, and caused the people they needed to convince to dismiss them.
I thought Plancks looked neat so I built one and haven’t look back. This will be my 6th year as an ortho-ian.
They acknowledged that the Windows 2000 design was also used in XP (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2539986/microsoft-conf...), but Vista and above used NIST algorithms defaulting to CTR_DRBG, although the problematic Dual_EC_DRBG (which was flagged by their own cryptographers as problematic: https://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf) was present until the Snowden revelations.

Windows 10's (and 11 and probably above) implementation of CTR_DBRG is different from Vista-8 though, mainly in the entropy generation and the switch from AES-128 to AES-256.
SSC is not the progenitor of this theory
Okay? You know that it would be easy to list probably millions of domains with similar parking pages, right?
I think these ML systems make for pretty good search engines. They're still bad at creating original coherent texts though.
The linked nature paper points out that over a billion people without access to safe drinking water live in areas where their design would be high performance (tropical areas).
First time seeing a critical comment counter-critiqued?
Static site generator isn't the opposite of CMS.

I have made tons of headless CMS powered static generated sites. And I've made personal mark up powered sites. The markup is fun if you are the only person who will ever work on it, otherwise I recommend hooking up a proper content editable site.
Mozilla management is so expensive to maintain.
I particularly appreciate that as a billion-dollar mistake, Javascript decided to make it twice (null and undefined).
Semi-humorously, if Apple No Longer Provided Anything At All, I wonder if it would make a lot more money? Sell off all the real estate, industrial assets, IP, staff down to a modest investment bank size, and be like Norway's sovereign fund. I suppose it already leverages its cash hoard to do such things, among other things.
Losing Touch with Thucydides: Why We Don’t Understand Putin and Xi
> It's a shame the cost of learning a new layout is so high

Haven't you mean the cost of _creation_ a new layout? Learning is super easy for any non-QWERTY person because since you have managed to realize that default layout is bad - you have all freedoms possible to fix this obstruction. Sometimes the number of freedoms is too high, that's why it is so hard to create a layout which will be really used by anybody. What about learning a new layout per se - the cost of getting rid of QWERTY in my opinion is doubling for every year of touchtyping QWERTY or QWERTY-like layouts. Layout is something that you will be carrying in all your muscles for the rest of your life but after your first switch you will not consider switching layout that hard especially if you really love your new one.

> Another issue is the dataset used for evaluation here.

A beauty of a layout is kind of a beauty of a girl - it must be measured by heart, not by numbers. Layout is something that you will be carrying in all your muscles for the rest of your life. I do not respect any attempts to fix QWERTY (like Colemak and Workman) because QWERTY is so broken that there are no reasons to fix it (coining more and more of fancy metrics usually) except if QWERTY sits too deep in your muscles. And there is not much difference in using three rows of symbols when somebody either programs or writes a letter to his lovely ones.

> You make a good point about finger strength, not something I had considered.

Maybe yes but maybe I haven't disclose my opinion fully. I used to touchtype Dvorak way before some musical instruments gave additional strength for my fingers and I do not remember any desire to rearrange any letters.

There are lots researches going on for enhancing QWERTY, based on rearranging as few keys as possible. They usually are based on: the datasets, somebody's opinions about finger strength, some ideas of alternation of fingers or hands, now AI has joined to the army of fancy metrics. I do not respect any attempts to fix QWERTY (like Colemak and Workman) because QWERTY is so broken that there is no good reason to fix it, except of for users who have QWERTY sitting too deep in their muscle level.

The Halmak's idea of punctuation in the middle of the board is really interesting, I haven't see this idea on any layout I have tried. But my message is that layouts must be created not by complicated calculation's call but by heart's call.
> Wikipedia being unreliable does not make the Daily Mail reliable though

Perhaps, but Wikipedia's unreliability means that it is not in a position to meaningfully comment on reliability of other sites.
Split space keyboards are a thing, though not as common. One of the reasons I ended up with a split ergo board was to increase the use of my thumbs on the keyboard.
Groups.io: Advanced email group service
So the only dynamic part of this blog is the contact form, and that pull in docker and python?

There are better ways. (Shameless plug alert) https://roastidio.us is a free commenting platform specifically designed to go with a SSG based blog.
I take issue with this, I don't see any discontinuous advances happening every year. I see incremental advances or the results of miniaturization and mass production making things small or cheap enough to reach mass market. Those are examples of progress but not of genius. Where are the revolutions? Why does it seem like physics has stalled, stuck on the same questions we've had for over half a century? We are making slow progress against universal scourges like cancer and Alzheimer's but there are no major breakthroughs that shake the foundations of biology and medicine. Psychology is still groping in the dark, unable to do much for the suffering millions endure. Where are the architectural advances beyond steel and concrete? The best we can do is 3D print odd looking homes. Why did it take almost 50 years to get ambitious space programs re-started? Even on the artistic front we are awash in a sea of nostalgia. I don't think genius is common at all and I agree with the article that we probably now produce them at a much lower rate.
> Ask questions. Ask until you understand. DON'T BE AFRAID TO SOUND DUMB.

This is such good advice. If you don't understand something, chances are very good that others don't.

It is important to know when to take your questions "offline". That is, don't hold up a meeting with 10 people in it while you get an understanding of component X. Take a note and follow up with the component X team directly.

I'd add: document what you learn so that other employees can learn it without asking questions. Plus you'll understand it better. If it is not confidential, ask if you can share it publicly. That'll have the double benefit of increasing the world's store of knowledge as well as the profile of the company.
I think that's right but not complete.

I think the biggest pushback came from the notion that a large segment of the population appeared to be against the scientific consensus on Covid, contemptuous about risk mitigation strategies, skeptical/fear-mongering about the vaccines, and pushing conspiracy theories, and then these were the who turned around and said there's a great drug that works miracles against Covid and the government doesn't want you to have it.

Now, this may not be an accurate representation of all those who were talking about ivermectin, but they were the most prominent voices -- the "do your research" types.

The bias that this produced in others against even considering ivermectin was strictly irrational, of course, since it was against the sources and not about studies, but, that said, many of these same people had been pushing hydroxychloroquine, massive vitamins C injections, and urine therapy, all without evidence. The underlying desire for ivermectin to be real seemed (at least from the outside) to stem more from discovering some cheap secret weapon that "the scientific community" didn't want them to know about.
This used to be called "man".
that's what ERM1 was, fixing your exchange rate against the "European Currency Unit"

and 1 ECU became 1 euro on 1 January 1999

now that the euro exists: joining ERM (version 2) is phase 1 of joining the euro
I got tired of trying to figure out which of the 'Print Screen -> PgDn' cluster to shuffle around, or have on the top layer, which is why I moved from a 65% to TKL.

Plus, I feel like TKL is better-supported by aftermarket keycap sets, if you care about having the correct row sculpt for a key.
Exactly. It would be great to live in a world without shit-heads, but shit-heads exist and so systems shouldn't be designed for benign actors only.
Kind of, on both accounts. I was definitely bored out of my mind when I worked in software jobs. Now I'm retired on relatively a small amount of money, so I cannot just pay to provide all of my materials needs, but have to be engaged in multimodal ways (e.g. cycle instead of going by car, cook for myself from cheap ingredients instead of eating out and not minding prices, fixing my stuff myself instead of discarding it or paying the repairman etc.). This way of living is much more varied and engaging, at least for me.

Also, I have a 92 year old grandmother who, during her youth, lived in what was basically a premodern village. She has told many tales of the life back then but she never mentioned being bored. The number of skills she had would be mindboggling for a typical XXI century office dweller, who often can pretty much only (for example) code and swipe his credit card.
I upgrade every two years, usually in summer after bugs get fixed or at least assessed. I don't stay on older releases because it gets progressively harder to install new versions of software. Example from a few days ago, OSM for emacs requires an emacs version newer than the one in 20.04. There are ways to install it but it takes time.

And 18.04 will be EOL next year, right?
The reasons for the immediate action might be logical, but looking at the medium term consequences it breaks down completely in my mind. The only two possibilities I can see going forward is either a forever-war as in Afghanistan, or a forever-sanction situation like Iran or DPRK.

I don't see how any listed benefits would outweigh the costs of either option. It troubles me a lot, because Putin has seemed to me to be a carefully calculating player up until this. It makes me wonder if he has truly lost it. Or if there is some grand plan which this is only a small part of. Both are scary.
Defining interesting is an exercise that's left up to the reader ;)

I personally think it's fascinating to talk to people who are unlike myself, but your approach is definitely valid (if a bit "draw the rest of the f**ing owl") for a given interest.
Wouldn't Soros argue that all he did was accelerate their leaving of an already increasingly strained ERM?

The ministers in charge didn't want to be in the ERM, it was all Major.
Netflix is testing ways to end password sharing
If I have to read "massive speculative attack" one more time... Almost every paragraph ends with this, and it takes 5 paragraphs just to start explaining what the attack was and how it worked.

This wouldn't pass high school English.
People were literally taking formulations of the drug meant for horses.
Differences between OAuth 2 and OAuth 2.1 (2020)
I spent all of 2021 with a challenge to myself to do stdlib only, and though at first it was challenging, it was great! I learned so much that using a library now seems like tying a cow to my neck to make a bowl of cereal
It was your fault for not putting on a helmet and allowing me to hit you with a steel pipe and take your money.

See the problem? There's a reason it's illegal to exploit vulnerabilities in software. It's even illegal to exploit them in humans (mostly). It's called fraud.
>> the space bar doesn't need to be so big

When I realized this it was eye opening. I used to have an MIT layout Planck (2u) spacebar, I tried a full grid and it feels perfect for spacebar to just be another 1u key.
Great suggestions, thank you!
The Bank of England which was responsible for artificially pumping up the value of sterling is a more appropriate target for blame.
Kamuee: A Pure-Software-Approach Router
> How is he the bad guy in this story?

He’s narratively identifiable. Soros didn’t individually break the BoE. Lots of people were in on the trade. But he did so massively, relative to his personal wealth and to the market, and publicly.

So he gets pinned. Had he not traded the peg would have still broken. We’d just discuss it like we do the Asian or Russian Financial Crises [1][2], which happened five years later. Unrealistic pegs that suffered runs. Not a man “breaking” a Western central bank.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/event/Asian-financial-crisis

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisi...
> Trust me, the code is not rocket science that the vast majority of what software engineers do at BigTech.

Again, that is not the discussion. Nobody said that you have to write high quality code to make it in tech, or as an indie. You keep coming up with strawmen but all I am saying is that I don't believe Marco Arment writes very high quality code. That's it. No judgement, no conclusions or correlations, no nothing.

As to FAANG, I can only be certain about my own experience, and the dozen or so direct colleagues I had all wrote better code than every other colleague I've had over 10 years. Not saying they are better people, happier, richer or anything else. Just to be clear.
You tried very hard to ignore the points he was making.

> Why should vaccination be the only acceptable way to treat COVID

It's not a treatment. Vaccines are prevention. We have treatments. Ivermectin isn't one of them.

> In science we need opposing views

That sounds so childish. We don't need "views" in science. We need results that people can trust.

You have my permission to try and prove ivermectin is effective. So far everyone trying has failed. That's not a view. It's fact.

> trying to cure seasonal flu with vaccine is silly

It's not. We can get rid of seasonal flu if we try hard enough.

> To me it seems like the vaccine fundamentalists are more interested in obedience than science.

"vaccine fundamentalists" suggests to me a complete disingenuous argument.

We know how to prevent covid. We know how to eradicate covid. We have watched countries do just that. Even if we don't do the things those places do, we can reduce the death count here.

But with small-minded attitudes like yours, that simply is never going to happen.
Making a storefront is a great project.
Buying value stocks may be better than buying an index, but identifying value stocks is hard and time consuming. Wouldn't the average investor be better off buying index funds, since the average investor does not have the time, inclination, or training to find value stocks?
I've struggled with this in every job change, even after my first job of 1.5 years: I owned my own little project, and in that tiny corner of the company, I was the expert. Going from being an expert to onboarding again feels like being forced to speak a new language. You know you're smart, but you can't articulate it.
Memorizing those factoids builds the base for appreciating the really cool stuff. It's like a language class: you learn a bunch of vocab words so that you can read amazing literature or visit far-off places.

Science classes are really bad about motivating this. I don't think I would have made it through the intro-class grind if I hadn't worked in a lab first. Language classes offer an interesting parallel, in that you can either have the old school "learn these 250 flashcards" or more enjoyable short stories that build up to something.
That's ironic. Considered "generally unreliable" by a source that could itself be aptly described as "generally unreliable."
Interesting. Can you elaborate on "become the 'host'"? Maybe a concrete example would help me understand what you mean
>You can make that exact same argument for literally everything. Drunk drivers are against the public interest. So are child porn distributors, tax evaders, unfettered capitalists and a bunch of other things, so should we just ban cars, the internet and just about everything?

Nobody cares when unjust enforcement practices are used against really bad criminals or are used against really small segments of the population.

People going 70 on a road designed for 70 and signed at 55 is a broad cross section of the population. Slap draconian enforcement on top and people aren't just gonna bend over and take it.
> He forced mortgage rates, for example, to shoot up to 15%, with crippling monthly payments for a large chunk of the population.

Does British monetary policy not get some blame, here?

It was a sudden shock because they were putting their foot on the scale for quite some time.
I had a scan done a few months ago and marveled a bit at the machine. It was 20 years old but the room it was in was probably very expensive to build. There was a considerable amount of electrical power going to the room. And you can't just let a newbie run the machine. The liability alone of having a patient with a metal sliver in their eye or piercing still installed must be insane.
> Every time you open the refrigerator, a heroic engineering effort looks back at you.

Yeah but the biggest effort went into making it cheap.
The Art of the Device Code Phish (2021)
I know. That's exactly the point. It's not a flagship product for them but a watered down thing they aim at low cost devices. Apple charges 5K for a their 64 core Mac Studio. It's the fastest thing they have right now and it's an SOC. The fact that it even comes close to Nvidia's latest and greatest shows that this is the right thing to do from a design point of view.
I love how conversations conveniently slide off just to argue about stuff.

The comment said "invented the modern slab-of-glass smartphone industry".

That's it, that's true, there was no "slab-of-glass" smartphone industry. The comment did not say "invented the smartphone industry" — all comments after it are just unrelated.

Yes there was there were smartphones 10 years prior. No they were not slabs of glass.
From the article "They looked at data from all patients; then analyzed data from patients who received ivermectin or a placebo 24 hours before they were hospitalized"

24 hours!? How is that reasonable at all?
Appeared in multiple deranged conspiracy theories.
The whole docker setup just to accept contact form submissions seems like overkill. On my blog I’ve got a form that posts the data to a lambda which sends me an email. The blog is built using Hugo and served from s3 so my setup is completely serverless.
Looks nice; how does it work under the hood? It looks like it needs an API key, so does that mean it sends all my inputs to some server? Does it taylor the answer based on your OS, like using Hombrew on Mac and apt on Ubuntu? Can it work offline?
Even if I leave my front door unlocked it's not your prerogative to empty my house. The locked door is there to suggest that it's a immensely stupid idea. I cannot begin to imagine the self entitled bull, someone peddles to themselves, to justify corruption and greed at this level.
But what is the 'real cost'? Is it that much higher in Germany than the USA? What does the CT tech make, how much was the machine to buy, how expensive is the rent where the machine is installed, what are electricity costs...
I can only be exploited by people with massive resources. There's not that many people or companies in existence. It's not the same as a software bug that can be exploited by any random hacker

Lots of society still relies on people behaing well overall with the few outliers being ostracized or outlawed when they don't.
"increasingly-common", my macbook and now my PS5 have USB-C female ports for charging stuff. That's the grand total of places I can use these cords (and I doubt the PS5 will charge my phone). It's a slow rollout best.
You can make a long list of times outsiders were right and the establishment was wrong. You can also make a long list of times outsiders were wrong and the establishment was right.

Why would you mention only one list and not the other?

Why would you want to enlist as a soldier in one side of a cause where neither side is reliable, neither side has your best interests in mind?

You're playing yourself for a fool.
Averse. It's risk averse.