skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find a link to the actual results. Wondering if they excluded parasitic infection as a confounder, or something.

Alternately if they gave the antiparasitic far enough before the infection, the rather complex causal sequence of "severe Covid -> steroids -> parasites multiply -> Ivermectin to the rescue" might not happen in the first place. Though that should show up by severe cases not having the parasitic reaction to begin with, if the Ivermectin cleared them out.

- So in summary, actually, now that I think about it, in a country with high parasite load, an antiparasitic having no detectable effect on survival rate of a high-stress infection seems pretty suspicious on the face of it! Really could go for a study link.
It's interesting to me to hear you say that. I would say that about Trump but not GWB in hindsight. At that time I was of the opinion you share and I remember feeling that GWB was essentially everything that was bad in the world… but in hindsight I realize how narrowly scoped my vision was and the spectrum is so much bigger and in fact I now believe it's important to be willing to find common ground with conservatives who at least believe in the free world. Trump I genuinely do not believe believed in the free world and the rule of law and in the value of our institutions
article is poorly sourced and uses retail price to calculate savings which is silly

Furthermore reducing waste inherently saves money. Talk about no good deed going unpunished
> Every time I see those static blog posts, they’re for barebones blogs with a dozen posts.

I think that's often because people are most excited about writing about their blogging software when they have just built it. But there are a lot of bloggers (ex: me) using static site generation who've been doing it for years and have hundreds of posts.
> noticing people cozying up to me so that they can exploit our acquaintanceship later

Unfortunately this is common in many other parts of life as well; setting boundaries is important.
Just don't pick up any USB sticks you find in the parking lot
It's true. I don't know what years 8-10 feel like. But author is not asking that.

I gave advice for author's question: _How do you go from the "new clueless person at work" to "oh hey Mike, I'll need your help this afternoon"?_

My advice merely helps the author to speed up the process to get there.

In addition, I never join and plan on leaving in 1 year. In contracting, sometimes you work a month, sometimes 4 years. But you always go all in, regardless of the assignment.
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I realized SRE is not for me and started grabbing development-like projects and agreements with longer time allotted. I document my work in a way allowing others do changes or continue without me being required to decrypt anything.

The communication question is tricky. It's smooth when it's there but I think I kind of act in a way that accents outside in outside contractor.

I try to soak as little as possible into corporate structures and from the start show that me not being there is not a problem. It's different with every client or company but I always mention upfront focusing issues. Never an issue in EU but some companies in the US looked down on ADHD as some kind of insanity.

I bring results, and in time. In the end it's about being more worth than trouble.
> Mediocre programmers use APIs, while good programmers know what's behind the curtain and can debug them.

Personally I'd like to not know what's behind the curtain until I have to. Which category does that put me in?
> Both the earphones and chargers retail for $19 USD each and since these items are usually cheaper to produce, Apple is saving approximately $35 USD per device.

I'm curious as to where this $35 USD figure came from. I'd be very surprised if headphones/chargers only had a ~8% margin.

I'd (perhaps naively) guess that at Apple's scale, we'd be talking low single digits for wired headphones/chargers.
Then how do you explain the original article that we are discussing here? He's just imagining the problems that he is addressing in there?

Just look around this thread, you can find the described attitude even here.
Performance per dollar is my benchmark
Remember, this is about running Linux on the M1. So if we’re going to talk about the 12th Gen Intel laptop chips expected later this year we also have to talk about Linux support on that chip.

I hope I’m wrong, but last I heard the Linux scheduler hasn’t caught up with 12th gen performance and efficacy cores.

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Then there’s the whole other topic that some of us would prefer to be on arm over x86. I’m keeping an eye out for native Linux support for the latest snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 laptops that are coming out (ThinkPad X13s and friends). So far I’ve heard nothing. Which might suggest that M1 might stay ahead of the curve in terms of the community hacking to support these boards.
I prefer Formula E nowdays because of the much tighter competition between the manufacturers. Almost every single team is running its own EV engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Formula_E_Worl... Also it's streamed for free on Youtube, much easier to follow

The only thing I don't like is the engine "sound". You can watch and hear it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CX8ItCZz04 Not sure something to be "fixed" or not but the engine sound was always a big part of motorsport and it's simply gone in electric car races.
Given that it’s mostly used on Instagram: sure! It’s a picture-first medium after all. Obviously portraits are rare, but it’s quite common to see posts of their kids doing something adorable with just the tiny portion of the picture that contains a face covered. Plenty remains to see.
Why? Did you provide a source for your claim? No.
> author keeps trying over and over again expecting different results

Totally not true.

It's a very short thread, so no TLDR should be necessary.
I set up a hugo blog a while ago and took a much simpler route.

I have a shell script called "blog" which just opens an empty template in my editor and then publishes it when I save it in non-draft mode.

Publishing is just another script that runs hugo and rsyncs the public folder to a vm.

I don't even use git, I don't care about versioning my blog posts.

The only thing I miss is comments, but nobody comments on blog posts any more anyway.
Equity for Employees
A Guide to the Strategies and Tactics of Defending a City
This is going to be an unpopular statement of fact but...

It's worth pointing out, the study - intentionally? - offers no insights on deaths rates or length of hospital stay, etc.

The scope as is is: Test positive. Receive a treatment. To hospital or not to hospital? But why stop there?

In fact, as is, you can flip it over and say placebos are just as effective as Ivermectin, as there's no mention of a no treatment at all control. Or did I miss that?

In any case, helpful. But apparently flawed.
Utter genius.
I've been playing around with using gpt3 as a research assistant and it can work surprisingly well.

It's tricky to get the prompts right I think and you won't necessarily get novel insights, more like the distilled common wisdom of an area.

You can ask it to pretend to write the response to a subreddit. And you get an approximation of a subreddit filled with the type of experts you want, instantly answering your questions. Although they occasionally just spout non-sense.
Provisional Authenticity and Functional Privacy
To make it clear they're referring to Indigenous Australians (a particular group of people) rather than using the term as an adjective, like "white" is being used.
i'd say it's the same reason not so many little boys dream of becoming a nurse.

And i also think that there's no reason to have such quotas for professions. What needs to be done is giving young people exposure to as much as possible as early as possible.
Which is the primary and which is the secondary is hard to be sure about, but it’s not unreasonable to assume both played a part — Apple is not short of profit and visibly actions a lot more charitable causes than many other megacorps, and yet one can also cynically say the causes it puts visible support into are merely part of its branding, just like one can argue that all altruism in the humans and other animals is merely genetic self promotion.
I have my regular email address on my blog, and I've had posts on HN and Reddit many times without getting spammed.
The actual cost of the charger isn’t as important as:

> The removal of these accessories also means smaller packaging for the iPhones, thus contributing to the growing profit for the company.

And I wish the article expanded on this. Shipping maybe 2x the amount of iPhones via the same cargo plane is cheaper and contributes way more to reducing environmental impact than not needing to create the 5W charger.
"Apple has also promised that by 2023, its supply chain and product usage will become entirely carbon neutral."

What does this mean exactly? It seems absurd to think that everything that apple does is in any way carbon neutral or neutral whatsoever with respect to the environment. As far as I can tell, Apple has much higher standards than most, but this seems dishonest.
What Great Hybrid Cultures Do Differently
This was Disney research, so they may have a use for it as an installation at their theme parks. The budget for that would be pretty high I’d imagine.

Even if the tech isn’t going to end up in every home, I wouldn’t call that a “dead end”. Disney + military as potential customers sounds like a sustainable business (at least more than a specialized defense contractor)
With this and Wireguard Jason is hitting it out of the park. I wonder what's next.
"(...) returned to Kharkiv to do something useful for the city. With no military experience and even no driving license, I do things on a very small scale"

The sense of due duty to your community beyond your family and your own life. I am not really sure I would have the courage to do that.

To Zverok: respect and good luck.
To the rest: support Ukraine.
You'd be surprised at how many things we do without understanding the causality behind them.

I don't think you'd call those superstition.

eg. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730370-400-how-does...
Hobbies that translate to your profession (like keyboards to programmers or headphones/amps to audio professionals) can very much become placebo.

Unless you are financially crippling yourself over the "hobby", it's OK. I have a few keyboards lying around (I've returned a couple as well in the past), I like to change it up every once in a while. It often gives me that little extra push to work on something I might find boring.
With how much it costs to get a GPU these days it may just be worth it to get the Mac lol
This fits perfectly into the "Less is more" philosophy. :D
500wpm for a few seconds to type in a single massively practised sentence. Big discussion from a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29827461
I know people are going to chime in about how a phone is expensive and how it's shocking that they are upcharging you for accessories that you need in order to use your phone, but for me, the landscape has changed.

For reference, I don't buy a new phone that often. Everyone else I knew had a smartphone by the time I got one... all my friends and family. And yet... these days, I am drowning in iPhone chargers. There are chargers all over the house. Chargers in every room. Chargers packed in case I travel. I have a box of lightning cables.

And then there's a small box of Apple earphones, barely used.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/briefing/covid-risks-poll...
Hacking group Anonymous puts 'Russian asset' Marjorie Taylor Greene on notice
> I have never met a Go programmer that is bothered by the existence of Haskell. I have met many, many Haskell programmers that are bothered by the existence of Go. Ask yourself why that is.

This is easy.

Go programmers are more likely to claim language choice doesn't impact software much.

Haskell programmers are more likely to claim language choice does matter a large amount.

That means there's not as much reason for Go programmers to criticize other languages because they don't see it as mattering much.

I think "language doesn't matter" is a hypocritical position that people make in bad faith though.

That said, Go programmers definitely criticize other languages including Haskell for not being inferior to Go's brand of "simplicity".
Good info. Thanks.

That being said, the WSJ article is limited to looking at hospitalizations. Full stop.

Nothing about deaths, length of hospital stay, so called long Covid, etc.
Not benchmarks but a back of the envelope calculation. When idling a 3090 draws ~20W and an M1 ~200mW. At full power its ~400W vs 100W, so considering the performance of both at maximum and interpolating between those power values it's a pretty sold bet.

Older GPUs with larger node sizes would fare even worse.
You could say the same about the English Premier League, or soccer today. I'll specifically call out Man City and PSG.

But luckily we still have the magic of the FA Cup, and also soccer is full of surprises!
To cool datacenter servers, Microsoft turns to boiling liquid (2021)
>What is that difference? It's not like you can proove that anything is not covered by any patent

When you have a codec that have all patent expired after 20 years. That is guaranteed patent free, because you can no longer extract patent from it. Claiming you dont have any patent just means you think it is not covered by any patents until proven.
I didn't mind my M much for years until I ended up crammed in a tight space that's all wood paneled. The clacks from the keyboard ring in the space in a way that's actually painful. I have to put on headphones whether I'm listening to music or not.
RFC 9217: Current Open Questions in Path-Aware Networking
“The reason I did this was to make a statement to the public, letting them know that this jpeg … could be utilized to turn into a brand and ecosystem for the restaurant world.”

He isn't cashing in on the jpeg, but on the media hype surrounding the NFT nonsense; the jpeg is incidental. Cashing in on existing media hype is not a bad move, I mean, why not take advantage of the free advertising. But its deceptive to tell people its about the jpeg. Deception is not a rare commodity in the crypto space.

The 'art' of these NFTs is clearly garbage, in fact I think that's part of the point. Its fascinating to people that something so obviously bad could be worth so much.
> There is a rumor that Putin had recently made a personal order to damage as much of Kharkiv as possible, to retaliate for breaking the hope of being “pro-Russian.” And however absurd it might sound, I am close to believing it because there seems to be no other point in doing what they do now.

I have the same impression, just old bitter fart and shadow of a man he once was, entrenched in his untouchable position, throwing childish deadly tantrums on a nation that decided to stood up to him as one.

An idea - even if they laugh on ICT in Haag, what if there would be international arrest warrant on all those sanctioned persons including him, no diplomatic immunity? Meaning they can't travel most of the world, forever. Just a nuisance maybe. but proverbial death by thousand cuts starts somewhere. And remove russia from permanent UN security council for the duration of 'special operation', since they just veto everything now.
I've done Colemak for 2 years and have switched to Colemak-DH since, which is a rather small change. It is not a problem.

The only problem is that if you also use a non-latin layout, it will do a remapping to the latin one for shortcuts. This latin layout was always qwerty under macOS. So, in the end, I've built with Ukulele a custom layout and that was it.
> This is why you shouldn't get your medical advice from Joe Rogan.

Could you elaborate on this one? Did he give any medical advise ever?
Because it's designed to be used on existing hardware, where the spacebar is really big and taking up the space where thumb keys would be, and where there's no row of keys below that.
Original source is the DailyMail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10607077/Apple-make...

As is typical for the outlet, the sources for the figures include stirring attributions like, “critics argue” and “experts believe”
The poster i responded to didnt claim what i said was untrue in the West. But there being an exception in other cultures. So which ones? Sorry if that sounded confrontational.

edit: Best i could come up with is Russia and they have heavily biased gender ratios as well
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240183/university-cours...

china: https://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/9/809.jpg

India has an equal ratio in CS, still looking for CE. The ratio is explained as follow
>Limited Career Choice in India: Among families who
send their children to university in India, engineering or
medicine is the default expectation (both for men and
women). Parents place great pressure on their children
to study specific subjects for reasons of socio-economic
prospects –career and marriage partners are a prime
concern. For the most part, children feel they must
comply.
http://www.hcixb.org/papers_2017/hcixb17-final-37.pdf

That seems to be a general trend, the less pressure, the worse the ratios.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I imagine it means that they will buy carbon credits or the like. They certainly can't actually make a carbon neutral iPhone but they can pay to pull carbon out of the air or something. It definetely is kind of marketing speak though.
Look for established and older Ukrainian diaspora groups in the country in question. Also many of the countries have established portals for refugees. Try to vet any helpers, unfortunately there are criminals that prey on refugees
Well, when we order new phones for people here at work we have to buy all that crap instead of just giving them what comes in the box.
Coming back to Evernote after 2 year, first impressions
I wish we had a good alternative to iPhones.
Ask HN: Shortest Feedback Loop in Bioengineering?
Software-engineers are pampered to expect a result a few seconds after hitting "Compile" or "Run" respectively.

What are some processes in bio-engineering where the feedback loop between action and reaction is extremely short?

I.e. which sub-fields of bio-engineering (almost) feel like software dev?
Microsoft Edge now automatically generates image labels for screen readers
True, that's a good point and I pretty much agree with you entirely. I didn't really make a distinction between argument and anecdote. Basically I think it's being glossed over that there is a blatant up-front cost to testing. Write the tests first and you guarantee that you eat this cost. An argument can then be had as to whether the upsides are worth it or not.

I would love to see data on this, but to my knowledge there is none. (And it's unclear how to even design such an experiment/study to get meaningful results.) The statement I made that it's a lot of effort to do testing before code is of course pure anecdote. But that goes both ways - so are the claims in the original article as far as I can tell.
Probably that their suppliers all receive some kind of carbon neutral certification (probably given out by Apple themselves rather than an impartial third party).

If you consider all of the Apple hardware that gets thrown out because Apple doesn’t allow them to be repaired, a “carbon neutral supply chain” just seems like a sinister distraction.
Was it? My mistake.
Are you arguing a website can collect as much data as they want without respecting GDPR so long there’s no way to directly attribute the data to who provided it?
I learned QWERTY in high school, and by the end of college was up to around 100wpm. As I started getting older, I had some wrist trouble, mostly from mouse, but also from keyboard, and decided to switch to a more ergonomic layout. It took me a month or so (not full-time use) to get my Colemak speed up to 40wpm (minimal usable), and a couple more months to get it up to 80wpm. I've never really regained my 100wpm speed (been using Colemak for 8 years now), but my wrists thank me. I'm still able to touch-type QWERTY, but I have to look at the keyboard to give me the "context" for it, and my QWERTY speed is today only about 40wpm.

Lately, I sometimes think about going back to QWERTY just to simplify my life; mouse avoidance has been more important to me than keyboard layout switching, I think. But at this point, it would be as much a pain to go back as it was to switch in the first place.
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To my understanding, this came about because of people trying to self treat with it and the most accessible way for a lay person to get access was the aforementioned horse medicine (which came with dosages way above those for people)

I.e. it's not that ivermectin is horse medicine in all forms, but the forms of it which the people were taking in response to Trump's early promotion were horse medicine
I'm a mathematician, so it might be that it's calmingly familiar rather than any typographical excellence.
I have a Kinesis Advantage 2. It's not at all about performance, in fact I still type slower with it. The entire point is that I have pretty broad shoulders and so typing on a normal keyboard, my hands are at a very awkward "up-and-out" angle. With the Advantage 2, my hands are straight with the wrist, pointed inwards and slightly down, and need to move very little. It's pretty relaxing.

(Though whoever decided that alt-tab should require a crazy hand-spread gesture with the outside fingers spread wide, needs to have their head checked. And the function keys are an affront against all that is good in the world.)
I used django_ckeditor and ckeditor_uploader for a very simple site I built for an academic where they needed WYSYWIG forms, it worked a treat and easy to integrate. It's used by Django CMS too.
I don't get it. I don't understand anything about medicine but as far as I know the Japanese used ivermectin to treat COVID so it's not just some developing countries that use it. I'm from Finland and our national news company even reported about some Finnish pharma companies that developed a nasal spay that could treat COVID. That nasal spray included ivermectin and they said it's such a shame ivermectin has such a bad press because supposedly some yanks overdosed on horse dewormer after listening to Joe Rogan too much, but they still insisted that it's an effective drug to treat COVID. I don't know what to believe anymore. To me it seems that not even the trustworthy media can't decide whether it's effective or not.

The most bizarre part of this whole ordeal is how there was such a huge backlash to ivermectin usage as if it was some kind of a dangerous drug when that's clearly not the case. Even my layman's knowledge is enough to understand that much. If it's placebo at worst then why did the media try to demonize it so hard?
As a brown man, my heart too would sink. Not because I hate white males, but because it makes me feel as if I'm not adequate. That if no brown men have made it to that point, how could I?

This is all about perspective. Is my perspective here logical? No. Am I blaming these white men? No. Representation matters to minorities. It helps us "feel" like we can actually achieve stuff.

It's difficult to explain this perspective to white people. But too often I see white people dismiss this perspective, seeing it as an attack on _them_. But it really isn't about white people.
All people are fallible — by this logic, you should stop buying anything at all. Someone associated with anything you purchase or use just might have a scary opinion you can't tolerate, and we can't have that, can we now? Oh the agony!
For our company that means that we are pumping money into Chinese wind park building projects.

Nothing changes here at the production plant, but on the other side of the earth, somebody is building a wind turbine. That's how you get "carbon neutral" these days.