skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and the parent comment are in complete agreement. They even said, in the first sentences:

> Yes, ivermectin is an anti-parasitic, and yes that's probably why there's anecdotal evidence of it working. The reason people are testing it is because it has potential anti-viral properties as well.

And then you said:

> Yes, some people are interested in Ivermectin as a protease inhibitor. But the reason the de-wormer came to prominence in the first place was because some lower quality studies found it has a positive effect on COVID-19 outcomes.
I stuck an Apple Magic Trackpad between the two key wells of my Kinesis Advantage, and you can do the same with any similarly split keyboard. Having it below the spacebar like a laptop may be a bit harder/less comfortable though just because of the larger size of everything.
Property rights are a useful construction. That they are useful should be separated from the fact that they are a construction.
Both are fair questions. For the former, I'm personally looking for new friends and the novelty of meeting strangers. Some of my favorite memories are from meeting strangers and getting to know them over the course of an evening.

For the latter, I like to think not (but who really knows someone else's experience of themselves?). I enjoy talking to strangers for it's own sake and I'm not generally bracing for boredom, my question was primarily about good places to explore that have a higher ratio of interesting interactions to non-interesting interactions.

I understand the classification is very subjective, so I left the question somewhat subjective to hear not only answers to the core question, but also answers to the implicit question of "what do you find to be interesting".
Yea you're exactly right, and I think you've taken a stronger interpretation from that quoted part than what I intended. My point was that it's too early to jump to conclusions about parasites making Covid-19 more severe. But I do think that, if anything, the data points gently to the opposite conclusion.

> Recent studies have shown that helminth endemic countries showed fewer cases and deaths so far and helminth co-infection might reduce the severity of COVID-19.

from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/iid3.573.

Others:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34861106/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430705/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33073203/
brilliant! wish you luck
Even the authors of that study disagree with your characterization of it - it’s a conference abstract about an association (not causal relationship) with a ton of confounders and couldn’t weigh things like vaccination status.

> Moreover, both Efimenko and Nackeeran also told Reuters that other evidence available so far clearly refutes the benefits of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
Do you have a preference on the Moonlander vs Ergodox?
I see it as the opposite, if I'm going to learn a new feature, mdn would be the place to go to get a deep dive of what it does but once you understand it, w3schools is the place to go for a quick syntax and argument reference.
On that topic, it's really interesting how presumably small things that nobody focuses on in particular can really make a difference (for good) for people in very dire circumstances (like the refugees are).

For example over here in Bucharest (from where I'm from) I've started seeing lots and lots of Ukrainian mothers taking their kids for a walk in downtown Bucharest relying only on their mobile phone's map apps. What makes that possible is the smartphone itself, which, however bad-talked as a technology piece is really helpful when you're hundreds/thousands of kms away from your actual home, plus free voice and data plans that were provided by the local telecom companies to all Ukrainian refugees.

Again, I know it's not much (after all, many of the Ukrainians who remained at home face the much more dire prospect of actual Russian bombs) but imo I think that it's important that as a refugee mother with your kids after you in a foreign country you sort of gain the autonomy of respecting your daily ritual of walking with your kid(s) without being assisted by anyone else. This "stickiness" to normalcy (like walking your kids unassisted in a foreign city where you've just arrived one or two days prior while escaping war) it's what also makes life worth living, in a way.
Lock the ambassador in the WC cabin when he goes for a break.

Quorum is established at the start of the SC meeting, after that, absention means abstention
Yes. The /dev/random device would formerly refuse to continue giving data even when it had plenty of entropy backing it. The reality is, unless you are in early boot (now fixed by Torvald's RNG seeder) you have enough entropy to generate nearly unlimited quantities of pseudorandom numbers without revealing much of the PRNG's internal state. You only need 256 bits of initial seed entropy to be virtually unpredictable, as long as those 256 bits are strong.

See: Myths about /dev/urandom https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Jiggling the mouse may have made feel better about the security of the software they're using, but really should have been considered a bug (and the UI, a horrible workaround) this whole time.

Now that /dev/random no longer exists, and the kernel now has Torvalds' cache timings based seeder, any software that mistakenly uses it will generate a key instantly regardless of how much mouse jiggling you do.
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The Anker iPhone accessories like cables, chargers, and charging pads are MUCH higher quality than Apple’s. Their cables are so much better than Apple’s garbage cables which fray and break after a few months of careful usage. You wonder why Apple would damage their “high quality” brand image with their terrible accessories.
The problem I arrive at is I need non-tech peoples to fix problems without my being onsite. CLI support over the phone is a non-starter. Also, that XML file works forever, as best I can tell. Just for testing, I've installed backups from 7 years ago and they load just fine, which is also something a non-tech people can perform, even without calling me.
Pale Moon v30 (milestone release)
yeah but what if you don't have a charger or headphones. why should you pay the same or (more!) for less. at least take it out of the cost to retail.
The number row is full of characters, and the number row when shift is help become the Thai numbers. The numbers are basically only used in formal settings, the default layout has no access to Arabic.
Iris user here. Hate being without it now, it's extremely comfortable. The stagger makes so much sense but it took weeks to get back up to speed.

I use a tall book between the halves for additional tenting height, and have my setup such that my elbows are elevated to compensate for how high off the desk my wrists need to be - not a fan of wrist-rests.

Interested in a dactyl next, for sure.
Generally prefer being right over feeling right. Since i am an idiot that includes a lot of searching for overlooked facts and perspectives. Appreciate the heads up.
Is this a serious comment? Alwrapper doesn't use emulation. An API wrapper simply translates calls to the appropriate API. But more to the point, If the benchmark isn't properly ported to the platform it's testing then the benchmark is BROKEN. It isn't naive to expect them to do their job right.
I use an ergodox most of the time. My WPM on ergodox is like 130, my wpm on regular is like 110 (not because its harder, but because I'm less used to it)

If you keep switching as part of your protocol, it's fine
Theoretically the USSR is the entity which has a permanent veto right, and everyone has just allowed the Russian Federation to take the USSR’s seat.

In practice nobody is removing permanent veto power from the second largest nuclear power. The entire point of the UN was to give special powers to great nations so they wouldn’t fight out their grievances.

The only way to strip the Russia Federation of its Security Council seat would also call into question Russia even being in the UN. If they are kicked out of the UN entirely, would they even bother to reapply? Is it worth creating another League of Nations to have a temporarily more effective UN?
South Korea and Japan are prime examples of vassal states. They have autonomy until their autonomy is a problem. They literally depend on a super-power's military on their land to keep them safe. If a country's economic and security wellbeing depends on another country then all policy making is subject to that other country's influence making it an indirect vassal state -- what I think is best called a neo-colony where domestic business is left alone but anything affecting geopolitics and foreign policy is far from an autonomous decision.

> Iran wants nukes to further destabilising and terrorise the ME. NK wants nukes to keep it's nation sized prison under total control.

Yes, and I don't support either nation one bit but they are a sovreign state and the very fact that you and many others in the west show support for overturning their government means your democratically elected governments are using their power and influence to turn them into neo-colonies by dictating their domestic activity as if they answer to you. We can hate bad governments all we want but if a nation is truly sovreign our opinions as outsiders shouldn't mean anything. A government's prime directive is to preserve sovreignity over its land and people which is why it can send soldiers to death to preserve these things. What is lacking from your disapproval of NK and Iran is an acknowledgement that they do not answer to you , your government or any other nation. You speak of Iran destabilizing ME fully knowing what the west has been doing there for over a century. At least Iran has security and religious ties to its neighbors. A sovreign nation has self-determination, they get to have horrible leaders and dictators, famines and civil wars as they do great leasers, prosperity and peace all of which is determined by the people whether through elections or violence.

"At least we don't export revolutions" is the primary selling point of the CCP in africa and other places which is working wildly.

I applauded NK and Iran because they preserved their sovreignity but I do hope their own people cause a change in regime but ultimately it is their country. The US has no business in NK vs SK conflict so I can't support that, but Iran is helping hezbollah which is a security risk for US and in that respect alone I support any type of aggression against them.
First, congratulations! It can be hard to step out of a comfort zone.

Second, realize that you will be the clueless newbie for a few months. Not in terms of tech or experience, but in terms of all those amorphous "I know how to get things done" tasks. You are going to have to sit with that and, while it won't be comfortable, it'll get better over time.

I've done this a couple of times in my career, though my longest tenure was ~8 years. My advice for "newbie oldsters" (just made that up right now) is fourfold:

* realize the value of new eyes to the company. You can see things that others don't because they are inured to their current situation. You only get to be a new employee once at each company. Enjoy that advantage, uncomfortable as it may be.

* take notes on those things that are interesting to you. Publicly document them (if they aren't) or improve the docs (if they are). Writing down something will give you experience in the domain and give you a chance to talk to folks when you ask them to review it.

* resist the temptation to prescribe in these notes or in conversations, especially early on. The team is excited to have you but if you come in and say "at OLDCO we did it this way, which is far superior" you will be wasting that excitement. The exception to this is if you see an existential threat to the company due to its practices (no backups, critical SPOFs). An open mind and asking "why" with an eye toward learning will serve you better.

* attend any social events that the new company has; as many as you can. Those non-work work events can be a pain in the butt in terms of taking time away from your personal life, but you can meet people outside of your team or even inside your team. And those informal ties can prove extremely helpful when you have a work problem in the future. ("Oh, we need to get design to sign off on that? I'll ask Joe who should be looking at it; we chatted at the Friday morning coffee a few weeks ago.")

Finally, some of this will come with time, but it usually takes 6 months to a year to have the internal credibility and confidence and knowledge to really make things happen. Take the small wins while you can and keep going.
Are you seriously making the distinction based on a plastic body vs glass body

That's just drawing an arbitrary line in the sand not based on technological innovation so you can day "apple wuz first"

These devices are defined by the amount of screen and the touch interaction combined with mobile connectivity, not by plastic vs glass body

Also, the iPhone 1 had an aluminum back, not glass so your point doesn't even make sense:

>"The iPhone's back cover is made out of brushed aluminum, a soft metal"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
I think this kind of take is really unfair and inaccurate. You can't ascribe any sort of misdeeds to "The Media" when that's a sweeping generalization of thousands of not just journalists, but commenters, comedians and assorted cranks.

The MSM was mostly fair and accurate in their reporting. "Horse paste" was mostly a meme or a joke. The NY Times and CNN didn't make jokes about horse paste. The CDC and similar orgs all gave accurate explainers of the use and misuse of Ivermectin (and Hydroxychloroquine).

While a lot of right-wing media like FOX and OAN was absolutely endorsing it. Here's a good one where Tucker Carlson has an Ivermectin booster on his show but apparently conflates it with Hydroxychloroquine.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biologist-tucker-ivermectin-ef...

Not to mention the former president spreading absolute nonsense about HCQ, disinfectant, UV light and whatever else popped up in his twitter feed. This inspired a lot of clapbacks from satirists and unserious opinionators, but you wouldn't see any real news being that sarcastic.

If you had stuck with left-leaning and moderate MSM, traditional news sources during these past few years you would have been very well informed.
I wondered the same - it must be a combination of coincidence plus confirmation bias creating a positive feedback loop for the efficacy of the particular spell/ritual I imagine.
I mean, its as unstable as balancing a broom upright on your hand is... unstable but not impossible.
Every area of interest has its "cults", I'm sure whatever you're into has its as well.

For me, I like MK's, and I have a particular like. I type for a living so I want to optimize the joy. Maybe I'm overly sensitive about it, maybe I'm slightly up on the autism spectrum, I honestly don't know. My family has noted my oversensitivity to many things; tags on t-shirts, when socks (worn) or rugs have wrinkles or even if the rug-pad has a wrinkle; I'm accused of being the princess and the pea.

Your analogy is wildly off though; I suspect to push your point. The classical guitarist without a stool at all could still play, without a keyboard I could not.

There are 2 broad categories about working with things. One is you customize it to your "artisinal, bespoke" way and are happy about that. The other is you adjust yourself to it and get on with it. Either is valid.

"The reasonable man adjusts to his environment, the unreasonable man adjusts his environment to him. Thus, all progress is made by unreasonable men."
>The "money" in the economy is actually mostly credit

But how can you borrow money to somebody if you don't physically have those money?
World's most boring person is a data analyst who likes sleeping
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_of_Angels:

"The Alley of Angels in Donetsk, Ukraine is a memorial for children of Donbas killed during the War in Donbas."

Unfortunately, even the reporting of victims of war is quite selective. Hope that everyone responsible for killing children, regardless where they come from, will be punished appropriately.
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The speed measurement of 20s is for a X86 Docker image with the platform field forced to amd64. For a native silicon image, the speed improvement is impressive, I am down to 4s.
I imagine the people most burned by that design run / remote into servers.
I am brown, so you can take your insinuation that I'm a white supremacist elsewhere. Try to address what I actually said instead of putting words in my mouth.

I'm not arguing about it on a humanitarian basis. The invasion of Iraq and subsequent forever-war is a huge humanitarian disaster that Putin may or may not beat.

I'm arguing about whether Putin invading a peaceful, democratic country in order to expand his borders is more or less justified than the US invading a hostile, murderous dictatorship.

Both are bad, but one is clearly worse.
Not to mention Frances Oldham Kelsey and thalidomide. She'd be slated as anti-science on CNN etc today for sure.
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? For example, https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qkd9xe/s...
I find Formula 1 boring. I think it is overreglemented. All cars are basically the same, and at the same time there are huge differences between the cars, if that makes sense. Only a few teams have a chance of winning. But the time differences are often fractions of a second. And the teams are nowadays mostly unlikable.

What I'd like to see is a race with more variation, and surprises. The only rules should be something like:

- The car must cost less than, say, $1 million in material

- The plans must be opened to competitors after some time

- You have to take care of the drivers' safety

And then just get from A to B or do the laps by any means necessary. The race courses would change regularly, so you would have to build new cars. One year they would be very curvy, next year they are short and straight so you need better acceleration, another year there are short stretches of rallye, and so on. I think that would lead to some very interesting cars. And it would shift the focus away from the shaving milliseconds aspect that I find so boring with modern sports, back to the exploratory feeling I imagine motorsports used to have.
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Soviet Union had a permanent veto right by statute. Russia only has it because people felt that Russia was the obvious successor despite leaving the Soviet Union before it was dissolved.

If enough important countries agree that Russia has no veto, then they can rewrite convention...
No mention of Stanley Druckenmiller. See lines 482 - 544 in a speech given by Druckenmiller

https://gist.github.com/bluechoochoo/a034da52c64ac6fcb637

where he talks about his and Soros' respective roles in the infamous trade.
I'm not sure what these devices are based on, but there was a time when a lot of the Netgate lineup was using Intel C2000-series Avoton CPUs. Down the road it was discovered all of those were susceptible to a hardware big known at AVR54. Could it be why your devices failed? More info here: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-series-bug-qui...
On all of the news sites I follow, COVID is still covered as a major section with multiple news articles daily.

It's just that, well, 2 years in, and "an Nth wave of COVID might be coming" is rather less newsworthy than "is the ongoing invasion of Ukraine going to lead to WW3?"
Still, I don't understand what's the point. Who and why were option invented. Just for speculation? Also who sells this contracts? The brokers?
I have just resigned after 16 years at my current place, so I can understand your feelings.

However, 3 years ago I made a mobility move within the company to a different division. To non-experts the new role looked similar form the outside, but almost everything was different: the people, (most of) the systems, even the culture, how the work was organized and appreciated, and so on. I experienced some sort of a culture shock. One of the problems I had to address in the new role was attrition and I kept telling people to give some time to their jobs to get a better understanding of what it was about and what opportunities it offered, and fought the same battle inside with myself to walk the walk not just talk the talk.

What I kept reminding myself about was that I should not compare the new role to the old one over and over again (except when there was some specific need). Instead, I just believed that my experience would help me help others. I was still the most senior guy in the team and after understanding where the biggest needs were, I started thinking about how I can address them, and came up with ideas which I went on to implement. They were much appreciated.

Another thing that worked well for me was to put all the warnings and indirect information I had received before my move on the back seat and give everyone a chance to start with a clean slate. I was very disciplined about that and as a result I could fix some historically very tense relationships between locations. I think if you approach people in an open-minded fashion, most of them will be happy to cooperate (except those whose interest dictates the opposite).

Also, don't be afraid to ask questions even about dumb things. I found that a lot of people with some experience are happy to share their knowledge and explain things to you. Listening to them will create mutual respect. And you will also understand who knows what and who you can count on.

Just be patient with yourself and you will find that you have the skills to be good at the new place.

EDIT: fixed some grammar problems
It's the difference between spies doing traffic analysis on messages or actually decrypting them.
To be fair, it wasn't necessarily easy to get Ivermectin in human form. The CDC and FDA both came out strongly against doctors prescribing it for COVID, and some health system wouldn't allow doctors to prescribe it or pharmacies to fill prescriptions.

Hard to blame people for taking the horse version if that's all they could get. Also hard to blame pharmacies for not wanting to give out medicine that doesn't work, although pharmacies seem more than happy to sell other kinds of snake oil.
Translation: "this shit is completely fucking hopeless."

Multi-drug combination treatments are where studies of ineffective treatments go to die. "X didn't work, but maybe X+Y or X+Z will" is one of those low-quality ever-present followup leads I was talking about in the sibling post. To a researcher, seeing attention shift to combination treatments means that the primary hypothesis failed and people are throwing Hail Marys. It's not impossible that one of them will work, and that's why nobody will actually publish a paper saying "this shit is completely fucking hopeless," but in a situation where this shit really was completely fucking hopeless I would expect to see exactly this: a couple of positive "hail mary" results that squeak over the significance threshold with low N and low effect size.
It occurs to me that optimal keyboard layouts depend primarily on use cases: by human language, by activity, and so on. I might well imagine that a Perl-optimized keyboard layout would look different than one intended for writing fiction, and so on.
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