I agree. Very shallow "sources" and no qualifications to be speaking on a medical topic. There is a role for pop science to disseminate knowledge but this is pure speculation.
There's nothing wrong with speculation on HN. Speculation is intimate with curiosity, and curiosity, not correctness, is the guiding value of this site.
It may seem odd to demote correctness in that way, but it doesn't mean we value incorrectness. Correctness is good, just not at the top of the hierarchy. Curiosity (specifically, intellectual curiosity) is what we're optimizing for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
We value the freedom to meander curiously. Some paths turn out to be wrong [1], but that is how new things are learned, and it's a good way to spend time. People are allowed to be wrong on HN as part of figuring out what's true [2]. Truth is crucial, but one ought not to squeeze the throat of speculation so tightly that wrong things aren't allowed to be spoken, or fun to be had.
[1] not saying the OP is right or wrong - I have no idea - but the article looks like the fun kind of meandering that has a place here.
Edit: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=meander - "from Greek Maiandros, name of a river in Caria noted for its winding course". Is there a better website than etymonline?
The current situation is that you have to go out of your way with things like `pip install --only-binary`. There is a lot of implicit trust in developer tooling.
Many gems are used as imports by another program and are not directly run.
I am not sure why the norm for scripted gems/packages seems to be running code on install but it’s very insecure as a way to distribute dev dependencies.
What age did you start med school? Probably not feasible for those of us who didn’t have stellar academic records. (Regardless of professional accomplishment)
proud owner of a financed 2024 manual nissan versa here :) but yeah the dealership made almost no money and I put down a deposit when it was a couple months from coming in at a location far from where I live. it's a $20k car though.
Hell no, any experienced engineer would rather do it themselves than attempt to corral an untrained army. Infinite monkeys can write a sequel to shakespeare, but it's faster to write it myself than to sift through mountains of gibberish on a barely-domesticated goose chase.
> Many studies have shown the incidence of repair procedures and worse final vision outcomes were higher in groups with autoimmune conditions (SJS, OCP). The difference in outcomes appears to be related to the degree and cumulative past period of inflammation. Overall most favorable outcomes are achieved in non-cicatrizing conditions, followed by ocular burns and OCP with the worst outcomes in SJS patients.
The patient in the article was a SJS patient
> The massage therapist says he could see just fine until he was 13 years old, when he took some ibuprofen after a school basketball game, triggering a rare auto-immune reaction known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
For those without means understanding is a luxury, for many with, it is merely aesthetic. Matching drive with opportunity could unlock humanistic discovery but it is far more likely to be done artificially given the way we organize our societies.
> For those without means understanding is a luxury
Saying that those without wealth are barred from genuine understanding reduces learning to a matter of money. Plenty of us with limited resources develop deep insights by way of libraries, conversations, online education, or other active seeking in the margins of what time and means permit.
That proposition also throws away personal agency by framing understanding as something that happens only if external conditions allow it, rather than admitting each person’s power to seek knowledge and push beyond circumstance.
Your second sentence feels more balanced, setting up a good question: how do we bootstrap Gene Roddenberry’s future fairly while still recognizing personal drive, differences, and merit?
I gave up a while ago and started on the path to becoming a doctor. I'm pretty happy about it except for the 10 years until I make what I used to part.
Active learning and problem selection is what I came to as well going through the literature. I was thinking of teaching algorithm design by having students build their own algorithm laboratory where they create visualizations and experiments that motivate interest in problems and the design of solutions.
I think “motivating the problem” (a phrase I hear a lot in American lectures) is often the weakest part of an algorithm and data structure course. The teaching approaches seem quite abstract, or make passing mention to practical problems.
Personally I find algorithms a bit boring in the abstract. I’ve always wondered why DSA projects are so rarely things like “Here’s a simple database that doesn’t support indexes. We’re going to query it and it will be painful. Then you’ll extend the database with a b-tree index.”
> “Here’s a simple database that doesn’t support indexes. We’re going to query it and it will be painful. Then you’ll extend the database with a b-tree index.”
Because this is in my opinion a too complicated project for many computer science students (of a non-elite university). In other words: this looks like a great project to "weed out" students who should better not study computer science. Lectures/projects to weed out unusuitable student seem not to be accepted in the academic environment in the USA.
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