I found gwern's take on Melatonin interesting: https://gwern.net/melatonin

A small excerpt:

> One might object that they do not wish to tamper with their natural sleep, even if melatonin is a normally-secreted hormone.

> Sad to say, I would point out to such readers that they are already profoundly tampering with their natural sleep cycle, and indeed, all of Western civilization is tampering with it; most of my readers do not even sleep multiple times during the day, as ‘Nature intends’ and as humans have usually slept through history, but rather in a single 7–9 hour long block.

> [...]

> Finally, there are multiple lines of research suggesting chronic sleep deprivation is prevalent among young adults (including historical comparisons). It is striking that unemployed adults sleep a full hour longer than the employed , and that when normal adults are placed in settings without artificial light like camping or without any time indicators, they sleep longer than before - exactly as if they were sleep deprived.

The report only talks about validating the "fine-grained EP scheme" on Huawei hardware.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430033

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425948

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for Zen5 rustc creates the following:

  utf8_sequence_length_lookup:
    shl edi, 24
    mov ecx, 274945
    not edi
    lzcnt eax, edi
    shl al, 2
    shrx rax, rcx, rax
    and al, 7
    ret

  After we implemented advanced bot traffic detection and filtering, their reported traffic plummeted by 71%. [...]
  But then the sales report came in. Their actual sales went up by 34%.
  Their real conversion rate optimization (CRO) efforts had been working all along, but the results were buried under an avalanche of fake clicks. They were not bad at marketing; they were just spending thousands of dollars advertising to robots programmed never to buy anything. Their marketing ROI went from "terrible" to "excellent" overnight.

Can you just tell e.g. Google Ads that you don't want to pay for certain clicks?

Did they modify their targeting to try to avoid bots?

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1mh7q73/comment/n6uan...

The reply to that comment is also a good explainer of why the post has such a strong LLM smell for many.

Could you elaborate?

https://youtu.be/zD5EdvGs98U?t=13m23s

Do you mean this one?

"Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation.

It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses."

https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34202099