chansiky (u/chansiky)

chansiky commented on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/SquibblesRedux

isolli · 4 years ago

What I would like to know is, for young males (i.e. those who are most at risk of myocarditis after the vaccine), does the vaccine lessen cardiac risks in a subsequent infection or not?

chansiky · 4 years ago

> "This is the figure, and it shows really clearly, that when you look at myocarditis just in this group, men under the age of 40, it is crystal clear, pfizer dose 2, pfizer dose 3, moderna dose 1, moderna dose 2, have rates of myocarditis greater than the rate of myocarditis post SARS-CoV-2 infection"

- Vinay Prasad MD MPH ( https://youtu.be/NR_ZVzrTeYk?t=47 )

Source used by the video author from nature.com: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf

chansiky commented on Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract twitter.com/darkpatterns/... · Posted by u/zdw

acidburnNSA · 4 years ago

Screw those guys.

At least for amateur/hobby work, I've used the following for years and love them. I also try to regularly donate to them.

Instead of Illustrator for drawing, use Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ and/or Krita https://krita.org/en/.

Instead of Lightroom for developing digital photos, use Darktable https://www.darktable.org/

Instead of Photoshop for touchups, use GIMP https://www.gimp.org/.

Instead of Acrobat Reader, use MuPDF (mobile) or Atril https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/atri... (Linux)

chansiky · 4 years ago

If you want something more professional you can look to the Affinity products which have a very reasonable one time fee:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

I personally like Affinity Designer and have designed quite a few things with it. They are behind illustrator on features, I can't deny that, but I've been able to find answers to everything I needed.

Also they have solid developers working on the app. Check out this technical explanation of performance improvements to their rendering pipleline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfxzknVK_0

For a photoshop replacement, however, I would say Krita hands down. Again, its not as polished as photoshop, but I prefer it over Photoshop at this point even with all its rough edges. I really need to make a video or something about how to set it up and use it correctly but I think its got a lot more going for it.

chansiky commented on Over-reliance on CGI in movies erikhoel.substack.com/p/c... · Posted by u/hmmmmmm_

I_am_tiberius · 4 years ago

Indeed - I love the Mandalorian but costumes/puppetry aren't on the highest level in my opinion.

chansiky · 4 years ago

I rather liked the near campy look of some of those puppets. I thought it helped create subtle nostalgia for the original trilogy.

chansiky commented on Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Benefits vs. Risks frontiersin.org/articles/... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

nradov · 4 years ago

I'm always leery when I see a paper with a lead author from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. This is a political advocacy organization focused on pushing their policies rather than focusing on evidence based medicine. That doesn't necessarily make this study wrong but they have been known to exaggerate the evidence in favor of plant-based diets.

chansiky · 4 years ago

Bingo. Effectively the only message I can take away here is that some organization funded "science" to prove their product is better than their competitor's.

Which is not news to me... nor science for that matter.

chansiky commented on Ask HN: Do you also feel you retain nothing after reading a technical book? · Posted by u/dondraper36

chansiky · 4 years ago

Yeah, don't bother with too much technical reading without practicing whats inside. It won't get you that far. Its much better to slog through problems yourself. As an example, following directions from GPS reduces the spatial comprehension because it diminishes your experience of navigating through a space.

A big part of why memory works the way it does is because experiences are what get processed and catalogued when you sleep. If that experience is lacking, i.e. simply reading by itself, then the only thing you get are the words-"memes" running through your brain. What you need is that lived physical experience to be imprinted into memory.

chansiky commented on Ant mill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant... · Posted by u/anthropodie

travisgriggs · 4 years ago

Can this be generalized as what happens when a feedback loop finds a local maxima? We see these all over, in software and society.

What makes this particular phenomena fascinating to me, is that it can be right under our nose, going on around us (because the circles can be big), and we don't realize it. Our regularly observed behavior and model of ants isn't this, and when we see one wandering, we don't realize there might be a bigger thing going on. And then we zoom out and there's this "aha" reveal moment, where we discover a model other than what we thought was going on.

chansiky · 4 years ago

Circular dependency?

chansiky commented on Kakoune Code Editor kakoune.org/... · Posted by u/michaelsbradley

mushufasa · 4 years ago

Does anyone use this daily? this gets posted a few times a year to HN but tbh it looks like someone just re-invented vi. Which seems kindof like creating a new religion. It can be done, but even the best televangelist isn't going to hold a candle to the spread of the catholic church.

chansiky · 4 years ago

I tried it for a short time, but given the ubiquitousness of vi/vim, I just couldn't get myself to commit. I want to keep my muscle memory intact for when I have to ssh into a remote computer somewhere. Which, I guess what I'm saying is, it looks like I'll be attending mass this Sunday.

chansiky commented on Who Uses To-Do Lists? arunkprasad.com/log/who-u... · Posted by u/akprasad

aluminussoma · 4 years ago

Cal Newport and Shane Parrish, in a discussion on the Knowledge Project podcast, talked unfavorably about to-do lists. They favored scheduling time to perform the needed tasks in a daily calendar.

I tried that calendaring system a few times. It did not work for me. To-do lists are easy, comfortable, familiar. They may not work for millionaires. They work for me.

chansiky · 4 years ago

I've gotten a lot of productivity out of todo lists.

I've tried Cal Newport's calendaring system as well, which is more or less a bullet journal + timeline and I thought it was somewhat helpful, but in the end it was too tedious.

The thing that doesn't work for me is that If I don't finish something within a timeframe, its not worth context switching. Other times it made no sense to take on a task at a specific time.

Sometimes its just better to have a simple list and wing the rest of it. Don't overcomplicate your life if you don't have to.

chansiky commented on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty axios.com/theranos-elizab... · Posted by u/sdan

latenightcoding · 4 years ago

Question: could Holmes have avoided all of this by pivoting to something else and not losing investors money. It is extremely common for startups to exaggerate their tech just to later pivot to something else without any repercussions.

chansiky · 4 years ago

Based on what one of the engineers of edison were saying, if they could acquire more than a "drop of blood" for analysis, they would have been able to get more accurate results.

You might be able to consider that a pivot, since she had been saying "drop of blood" the whole time.

It was Holmes' unwavering attitude to imitate Steve Jobs that got in the way of her decisions, and I think more than a pivot of product, that a pivot away from this ideology could have saved Theranos. Willingness to give up on perfect design in order to acquire a working engineered product could have made a world of a difference.

chansiky commented on Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way news.ycombinator.com/item... · Posted by u/jacquesm

ddingus · 4 years ago

I'll end with this:

The reason why moderation works here as well as it does, is because dang and others actually care, actually spend the human time interacting with people, and spend time cultivating norms and culture that leads to more decisions that are good than not.

This is a human problem, not something we fix with a rule or algorithm or clever metric.

Someday, maybe when machines can derive real meaning from text, we can revisit this discussion and be productive.

And I even have an indicator for you.

A while back the decision was made to include one space between the period at the end of a sentence, and the capital letter at the beginning of another one. The result of that is also a capital letter after the period required for an abbreviated word.

This ambiguity is why those of us who prefer two spaces at the end of a sentence do so. It is so software can understand when a sentence actually begins. As things stand now, there's no real distinction between the abbreviated word, and the legitimate end of a sentence, meaning we get autocapitalization wrong.

When machines can understand meaning well enough to sort this out, is also the time that we might revisit moderation. Cheers

( going back to two spaces would be really nice, but this discussion just gave me a reason to prefer one space now for the indicator purpose mentioned above.)

chansiky · 4 years ago

Thanks for the write up, just wanted to note that I read through all of this. I get what you're saying about the meta now, clearly I didn't fully understand why that was bad thing.

Speaking of meta though, I have to say, I still stand by my initial thought that an alternate rating mechanic is at least worth exploring, as the upvote/downvote feels like a system from an earlier era before anyone realized how large its social impact could be. I'd be interested to know what the ideal system that promotes a healthy convergence to the center (rather than one that increases polarization) would look like.

I can't deny the effects of great moderation/cultivation, that they are the most important part, but being a technologist I still want to see what happens when the variables are tweaked.