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Goforth, K. M., Lohmann, C. M. F., Gavin, A., Henning, R., Harvey, A., Hinton, T. L., Lim, D. S., and Lohmann, K. J.

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles. Nature (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08554-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08554-y

Full text: https://rdcu.be/d9CgI (shortened link as provided on the page below)

( Provided by the lab's 'Publications' page: https://lohmannlab.web.unc.edu/research-publications/ )

Why is this downvoted? This is literally from the Indian constitution.

Cannot help but admire how western armchair experts readily attributes caste and class to every problem in India. This is equivalent to saying all the white folks in the US are rich. It's not that easy or that black and white (pun intended). The biggest driver of social mobility is the economic status as is in every other country. Coming from a wealthy background opens a lot of doors. There are a lot of filthy rich folks who are from the "lower" class and there are dirt poor folks who are from the "upper" class. Really looking forward to the caste survey/census being planned after next year's elections. Though I suspect the political class will either try to delay it again (as has been done multiple times before) or manipulate the data to suit their narrative.

From the article linked within your article

"A deal was done with India to supply 10 million doses. But it was always made clear the exact date of shipment could not be absolutely guaranteed."

I'm sorry did you put that comment for yourself as a reminder?

Without looking it up, I’ll throw my chips on the table and claim that you would like to just blame offshoring for any problem without providing any substantive proof.

If there was a vendor involved - Equifax would have already jumped on that fact and blamed the vendor. They would have already played the oh-we-had-a-bad-vendor-and-fired-them-immediately game by now.

Preface: Please, no advice. Please!

You may think that this is coldly logical. It's not. I have dealt with OCD and depression-like systems for a long time now. 90%+ of the time I'm "fine" to "great." Another 9.9% I feel like scum for no good reason. That last 0.1% is what sucks -- that's the suicidal thoughts.

Holidays that are the worst, when everybody seems to be paying each other extra attentions and I find myself feeling lonely/forgotten. Last night, I had raging suicidal thoughts for a few hours (about the length of the usual bout). These thoughts are not directed or particularly purposeful.

When I have these thoughts, I badly want to talk to somebody about them. It's like the monster in your closet -- in the light of day it's less scary. But I can't, and it sucks! If I go to a shrink about this, I would likely be involuntarily committed and be greatly impacted in my professional life, etc.

Suicide is a taboo topic and it's too bad for those who struggle with suicidal thoughts, because they have to keep them inside. I've brought them up to some "friends" before and the reaction is that I must be crumbling, etc. There's almost a sense of shame from these people, like they've accidentally seen you naked.

I keep this to myself, but the most productive thing is to confront the issue. The best way I've been able to do that is by reading things written by/about suicide not from the perspective of "gotta save you!" This might sound odd, but places like /r/SanctionedSuicide (which isn't really what it sounds like, if you recoiled) actually makes me feel respected and not ashamed. Looking through a different lens, I see that my life is pretty good and I have many things to live for! When I feel this way I read the generally "gotta save you!" stuff too because hey, it's nice and positive, but in isolation it's quite patronizing.

Mentally sound people seem to immediately equate suicidal thoughts with an imminent life-and-death struggle and have the accompanying "EMERGENCY!!" reaction, and that is simply not how this works.

But that's the thing! Caring about usability isn't enough. Are you a domain expert? Have you read your Jakob Nielsen and such?

Because Nielsen, for instance, probably wouldn't slam this design as hard as you have: For a work in progress, it's pretty danged good. The homepage is obvious, it presents the most important things in a way that nobody could miss. I'll grant that the "binaries" link is a bit obscure, but that's copy. There's some wasted space on the homepage but that's not a huge deal because the website's simplicity puts most things only a click or two away. The "packages" page is great! The tutorial could use a monospace font, but otherwise is great too.

I really hope that your advice doesn't result in iolanguage.org becoming a clone of Rust's website or otherwise an impersonator. The authors here are trying something new and unique and what they've pulled off is already looking sharp and easy-to-use.

So yea, I think you're just trying to sound like an expert. Trust me, you're not the only person here who knows about usability (if you do, that is -- you come off as more of a frontend developer than a real UX person, because your suggestions are lacking in depth and experience, and the HTML/CSS bit in your reply makes you sound especially green).

No no no ... don't lift another project's website directly, it's tacky and will make your project look second-rate.

Why do you insist on dominating the thread like this anyway? For my money, "reply to every replier" users are in a dead heat with "horse sense theory" users (like the one at the top of the HIV thread earlier, always followed w/ reams of "aw shucks, thanks!" replies) as the top nuisance on HN.

Haha, that hits home hard. Locking my deadbolt and worrying that I didn't as I walked through the apartment lobby. Locking my car and worrying that I didn't while I'm still looking at my car.

The good news is that when I stopped, my brain came back almost immediately, and in force. Basically as soon as I could tell that I hadn't recently smoked. A few days, tops.

What helped me to quit the most actually was buying some horrid weed from my guy that I still insisted on smoking. The stuff was low-grade enough that I was going through slow withdrawal even during the weeks when I was smoking it. And smoking it was no fun. I know for sure that my symptoms this time around pale in comparison to the times in the past when I briefly quit (for a drug test or whatever) after smoking that bubonic chronic (SFV OG, GSC and such).

Right, I'm presuming that somebody who really tries to self-medicate with cannabis for anxiety is doing so on a daily basis with high-grade bud.

Don't worry, after a while (assuming you smoke heavily) you'll have crazy-ass dreams all the time, whether you want them or not. Smoke will buy you 90 minutes of peaceful sleep tops. It's not a long-term insomnia medication.

(because it has no real downsides)

Ohhh boy. On this throwaway to say otherwise. I'm sorry if this post is a bit incoherent because I'm horribly tired, still getting past the nuts insomnia phase of quitting.

I've smoked a lot of weed. Started smoking in high school, heavily when I was 19 until a couple weeks ago (I'm 26 now). About an ounce a month over that time, sometimes two ounces. First it was for insomnia, then it was supposedly for my digestive health (actually, quitting gives you gas and loose stool), then for anxiety, sometimes for aches and pains (which were made worse because of poor posture -- it is a muscle relaxant, after all). At the end it was for my paranoia, so to speak -- I was convinced I had cancer setting into my guts and that it was the weed that was keeping it in remission. They did some experiment where this worked with rats, right?

Right now it seems like there are no side effects. Trust me, there will be. Your memory will turn to shit and you won't be able to follow a conversation. You will try to remember a number and forget it moments later. You'll be slow to recall your own zip code. This doesn't just happen when you're high, it'll happen the day after smoking also. Basically, if you're feeling "all right," you'll have these effects too.

You'll become dull. You'll sit around with peers and have nothing to talk about, just a stupid smile. Now, you'll feel totally at peace, but you're a basically a human blob, incapable of really interesting thought.

Your thoughts themselves will become lazy, less rigorous. You'll think you're being "chill" when you quit a debate, but really, your mind is just working much slower.

You'll edit code pointlessly, shuffling stuff around.

It's not all bad -- the ability to come up with really funny insights doesn't go away, so you can make people laugh. But there's no depth to anything you do.

Heavy smoking makes you shiftless too, and easy to abuse. It let me stay in an abusive marriage for a few years, fun (I sort of knew this but was too embarrassed to leave this woman I'd just married, so I smoked more to keep my sanity). Only when I tried to slow down smoking for a little while did I realize how bad things had gotten. Whether or not you believe it's happening, people will try to take advantage of you, if you're worth taking advantage of.

Keep in mind I'm not talking about "smoking every now and then when I feel bad," I'm talking about daily use: A smoke in the bathroom before you shower for work and constant smoking every night. Lunch break smoke if you're a real go-getter. Maybe smoking on your commute. Always making sure you have a good bit of bud or hash oil before you go on a trip anywhere (I remember smoking in a company's garage in SF after a tech meetup, and also regularly taking smoke breaks in my employer's garage in a less tolerant state).

In this industry, people will let you get away with it if you're any good, because the fact is that a half-baked person who can still write decent, reliable code is 10x as valuable as an regular guy with no skill/aptitude/motivation. And as you might have noticed, most people don't take to this stuff all that well, which is why (compared to other working schlubs) we get paid pretty well.

Also, YMMV, but it completely robbed me of my sex life when sober because I'd orgasm so fast.

It took several years of heavy, daily smoking for these serious symptoms to fully manifest into what seemed an indomitable form, probably when I was 24-25. I know for sure that heavy daily smoking of high-grade buds in California took it to the next level.

I had to stop smoking. I realized how stupid I'd become, even if I was raking in the dollars (not doing consultant BS either, senior developer stuff at a good tech company and respected by my peers).

Holy crap, I'd forgotten how smart I was. Suddenly I could remember everything. Issue numbers. My train number. Dates, times, places. I could remember things (addresses and stuff) I learned when stoned, knowledge I didn't know was in my head. Weird!

Now I can't imagine smoking again, except rarely with friends. Having my brain back is so wonderful. Feel free to ask my questions, though I probably covered the uninteresting life of a stoner programmer pretty well here.

Yes, sadly. At my interview they said I could have a Linux machine, and I believed them. I got a freaking Mac. It's assumed that everybody secretly yearns for a Macintosh.

Because no man wants to think about the man! And porn is marketed to men. There's a reason he's called the "stunt cock." Quite a few men get off on the idea of HER wanting it. SHE wants the huge cock, she is insatiable. The idea is that the woman/women is a sexual beast who wants you so badly ... which is what the man behind his computer/TV wants because most porn watchers are not indulging with another viewer. The man always must orgasm, but no male viewer wants to see him any more than possible. See also, POV porn.

Yea, I was half-way also responding to the top-level comment about "smoke a huge joint!" That could go well or very poorly depending on who's with you and the sort of stuff it is.

> smoking a HUGE JOINT

Or a small amount of something half-decent ... a huge joint of that would practically make your eyes bleed.

It's funny how important perspective is. They seem incurious because everything is going on in their head. I'll say without thinking twice that ganja tends to make you less observant of the fine details of all of your surroundings (which would be overwhelming at times otherwise) but instead makes you focus on very specific things.

There have been some studies that show a huge spike in activity in the frontal lobe during the onset of cannabis effects. It's been suggested this contributes to interesting time effects noted by smokers, especially inexperienced ones: So much thought occurs compared to regular activity that passage of time seems to slow significantly.

Kind of a moot point when most people are smoking hybrids.

And it's all besides the point anyway. Giving somebody who rarely smokes, or never has smoked, a bowl of hardcore sativa is a really, really stupid idea unless you want to babysit them all night.

It's also weird to pretend that one class of herbal is radically different from another. There are differences, but they get exaggerated.

I can say, having been on the inside of Atlantic Media a little over a year ago, people are running around like chickens with their heads cut off about revenue there. They've made it into the black through aggressive advertising sales and extreme cost-cutting/staff demands (trying to make "startup hours" the norm, like working to 10pm, letting seasoned journalists walk and replacing them with interns and recent grads), but they were still taking on water whether anybody wanted to admit it. I'm happy I left before it got this bad.

How do we know he is a lawyer? Because his profile says so? Maybe he's like so many folks who didn't know what to do with themselves but were pampered enough to get another four years of school dayz, got a law degree, then did something else? Sorry, but saying "I'm a lawyer" and debating people doesn't mean I have to respect your views on the law.

Please go back to reddit.

You have a good point except in my case they are already aware of it since I've already been working for them for two months (and they even knew before that time).

Thanks for the Tweakers link. I had forgotten about that.

Thanks for the info and the replies it has spawned.

Since I can't edit the OP I've added some more information in a post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3442176

I can't say which sector I'm targeting, sorry.

Thanks for the comments so far. I should have said (but can't edit that anymore) that I'm also interested in what would be a reasonable percentage of equity to suggest at a meeting.

To expand a little:

- I'm dutch

- I don't have to move

- I have got a wife, kids and a mortgage

- I've got about 15 - 20 years of experience depending on how you look at it. Starting with: 68000 assembler, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, web front-end and back-end, Lisp and now iOS although I'm just getting up to speed with the latter. I've got Open Source projects on GitHub, a blog I post technical things to a couple of times per year. I'm pretty up-to-date on technical things: call me an average HN reader.

I might be giving away too much for a throwaway account now.

Your first paragraph alone is a great advertisement for a phD! But you are right in what you say in the third paragraph. The qualification is the last reason why I want to do it.

I do see it as a potential way to transition into a different lifestyle - a startup maybe? But I guess I haven't got the guts to go all in at this stage and risk so much (a disadvantage I have), and I see this as a safer way of entering that arena. If (and most likely) it doesn't get that far I guess I will have 'accomplished' a body of work.

Oh and my brother has completed a phD part-time in the biomedical sciences. I will consult him on his views too.

I already hold a masters.

I would not be doing this for career advancement, and it would not be something that is the opening gambit on my CV either as there are far more relevant points to be made.

I AM looking to do original research, and - he says romantically - it would be nice to do something that directly contributes to society on top of this.

I am married. Would it be insane if I just became a father for the first time a few weeks ago?! I wouldn't be looking to formally start something until early next year though.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that my spouse would have a big say in this too.

Wow another overwhelming "no don't do it"! From someone who's been there and done it.

So, genuine questions: why did you do it? and what were your reasons? And finally if you could go back in time, would you decide to do it again?