skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put it in tech terms, imagine if the FAANGs + 20 other big software companies had universities. Along comes the government and says that the only way for you to be a programmer is to work at one of these companies for 3-7 years. Oh yeah, and the FAANGs et.al. have an anti-trust exemption that allows them to collude on wages/benefits.

Pretty clear why that system gets abused. The result is that doctors have to pay 50k+ tuition for 4 years and then get paid (relatively) crap wages for 3-7. After that, they make bank because of how hard it is to become a doctor.

Existing doctors have been all to happy to pull the ladder up behind them. They continue to make it harder and harder to become a doctor by extending the training time. As a recent example, to work in a pediatric hospital now requires an addition two years time as a fellow. Of course, no current pediatrician is going to be required to do more training. Just anyone that wants to enter the field and compete now has to accept an additional two years of lower wages.

The linchpin holding this all together is the government license requirements for doctors. Take that away and it all crumbles.
Dawkins may have coined the term, but memes predate him. A substitute teacher of mine was fond of the "Kilroy Was Here" meme, popular among american soldiers during WWII. He was a kind and gentle soul, and I only understood the depth of this expression as an adult: he survived the trenches, and still cherished a happy memory that carried him through the experience. Today, I propagate that meme in honor of him, even though I've forgotten his name.
not funny at all :-/
Following up on @kupuluri's note, focus heavily on a very simple very clear tutorial/walkthrough. If you can't make the tutorial simple, keep iterating on the product until you can.

Okta and Auth0 and Cognito are big established competitors but their products are complicated. If you've never done auth before it's not easy to figure out which of the many approaches and examples those services offer is the right one to use, and it's a big job to puzzle through and get them to work.

Handle the 80% case incredibly well with an incredibly simple tutorial. Leave everything that won't fit into the incredibly simple tutorial for later.
Sounds very similar to the Canadian regulations.
you don't have any control of what protocols your apps use and if they're encrypted or not
Wait didn't you say the slots are worth a million dollars _because_ of the subsidy? But that it shouldn't be subsidized because it's profitable?
350 MB of GIFs by my count!
I’ve got a pair of pants from REI that have a pocket down there, and I instinctively put my phone there all the time, because of how accessible it is when sitting. It’s great!
Hmmm, if we want to assume this is still related to high-profile blackmail material, it's possible they were downloading the DMs from accounts messaged by verified accounts.

AFAIK, deleting Twitter DMs only deletes the conversation from your end, so if the verified user, worried about this exact situation, periodically deletes their DMs, but the unverified user, not nearly so worried, doesn't...
> I believe going to a doctor is the way of accessing "proven information."

Either that or government-approved websites (like the NHS is providing in the UK). It is in the government's best interest to keep you alive for as long as possible (if nothing else, just so you can pay tax longer), and while they aren't always perfect (like the current covid-19 response from some countries) I would still trust them more than some random people playing doctors on social media.

> What would the mechanism for "eradicating" these "quack therapies" look like?

Outlawing unproven medical claims, and actually enforce the law?

> Well, can we really say big pharma isn't evil to some degree

Perfection will never be achieved, but if we take all the effects of "big pharma" (both good and bad, across all diseases) and compare it to the effects of backyard quack medicine, who wins? I'm willing to bet good money that big pharma wins by a large margin, so I'd be willing to trust them until there is enough evidence that says otherwise.
> it’s not a bad idea to try fringe approaches

Sounds like a great way to get scammed by charlatans, and potentially interfere with the treatment you're receiving from medical professionals.
I grew up outside Utah, but have lived here now for 20 years.

To me, the abstract reads like "water is wet". Both true and obvious to anyone experiencing it. Because I'm not willing to willing to pay for the actual paper, I don't know if it contains any inaccuracies or misunderstandings—there often are when describing Utah's peculiar culture—but scanning the citations it appears very well researched.

While MLMs are unreasonably successful in Utah, don't get the wrong idea. In my experience, the majority of Utahns dislike them just as much as everyone else. It's just easier for MLMs starting in Utah to target the willing minority and expand globally.

Update:

Having read the paper thanks to the free links in the comments, I can say it's pretty accurate. The description of Church programs is a bit idealized compared to messy reality, but that's to be expected. I really only disagree with one statement:

> In addition to the social capital and cultural explanations, legal institutions may also be contributing to the prevalence of MLMs in Utah.

It's a generous statement, but as a local I believe the opposite to be true. The prevalence of MLMs has co-opted legal institutions resulting in more friendly laws.
Why was the post about Twitter bias flagged?
I think it’s important to give context. Link should be removed, but it’s still available in the RSS feed. But maybe re-direct to a fact checking site?

Ie.

These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/citizen-free-press/
If services are indeed doing, or moving to, end-to-end encrypted media, there's nothing the server can do here.
Some treatments are considered "Fringe" because there are other [political, structural] hurdles at play that prevent them from going through proper scientific process. Some people don't have time to wait 10 years for government approval, so they'd rather take the chance now.
You are going to find this effect in any strong community where social capital is present and influential. There's nothing specific to Utah's LDS community that leads to MLM peddling/participation. It's just that this community is one type of community where social capital plays a large role.

By the way, tech communities are not immune to it. It might not be MLM, but think about how frequently you encounter tech products and services that seem to be flying on nothing but hype and charisma.
Sick people just trying to survive should listen to their doctors. It's stupid to normalize seeking out quacks because you don't believe the experts.
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John Glenn was a total badass. These facts prove it
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Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in ageing
Maybe they should pay their doctors better so they don't leave.
A high quality game can be created in Unity, Unreal or Godot. No one needs to know how to implement a renderer from scratch to do that.

I'm not disputing that Handmade Hero is valuable - there is a lot of good theory and insight into process there, but what it does not teach is how to make a game.
> magic plates

I'm not aware of any mystical properties ascribed to the plates. They're just ordinary plates of gold.

> from a magic bag

I'm not aware of any bag, especially one with mystical properties. Joseph says the plates were retrieved from an ordinary stone box buried in an ordinary hill, not a "magic" bag.

You're welcome to be critical, but this is just disingenuous.
Also, if the army thinks someone is getting a bit extreme, they will say "congratulations! you don't need to pass the shooting test next year ... and, by the way, please return your service rifle."

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/extremism_swiss-army-t...

(fun fact: until the cavalry was disbanded, troopers would not only keep their rifles at home, but also their horse.)

I agree on culture. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23809211 , footnote 1.

Not entirely serious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYJ5V2HYy4&t=222

(but then again, life should be sympa, gemütlich, simpatica, shouldn't it?)
I built FriendlyCaptcha over the past 2 months because I was tired of there being no good alternatives to Google's reCAPTCHA and the like that your users won't hate you for.
FriendlyCaptcha is based on proof-of-work (think hashcash): instead the user labeling fire hydrants in images, they commit their device to doing computations for at least a couple of seconds. The idea is that the cost of an attack is not so different for a spammer: instead of running a ML model to label the images (or solve the audio challenge) they would need to solve the proof-of-work challenge. That's probably good enough for most if not all websites, and compares favorably against ReCAPTCHA which has many issues (privacy, accessibility, bundle size & bandwidth, menial tasks, customizability, closed-source).

The attacker shouldn't be able to use much more optimized code, which is where WebAssembly comes in: the FriendlyCaptcha solver is WASM based (with JS fallback) which achieves close to native speeds. The solver [0] and widget [1] are all open source so you can play with it or customize it for your website.

The question is if this is what people want for their website, or maybe what the world needs is just a less evil reCAPTCHA?

In case you missed it on the main website, there is a demo here [2].

[0]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/friendly-pow

[1]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/friendly-challenge

[2]: https://friendlycaptcha.com/demo
I was about to take your recommendation at face value, but then I looked at your username.
Agreed. However, that's not exactly exonerating Mormonism or other popular religions...
In case this wasn't clear -

Maybe drop the requirement that "only" governments fund residency slots?
> or the treatments they do offer have devastating, profoundly life-altering side effects.

One of the foundational principles I use to reason is "if there was a free-lunch (i.e. a higher-ROI solution—more reward for less risk), then anyone truly motivated to solve the problem would have switched to it, or at least added it to their offering as an extra hail-mary on top of their current approach. Given that they didn't, the free lunch must either not be free (i.e. no less risky), or not be much of a lunch (i.e. not rewarding.)"

Yes, in this case, you've got a system with mixed motivations; the FDA isn't motivated to solve problems, so there might be some beneficial drug that isn't on the market. But that doesn't mean that your doctor in particular—someone who is motivated primarily to solve your problem—won't still tell you about such drugs, and help you to acquire them through grey-market channels. Doctors do this all the time—they get patients into drug trials, order in drugs from the medical systems of other countries, acquire new-old stock batches of drugs no longer produced, etc. They also will just tell you to eat a certain food or take a certain supplement as your "prescription", if doing that is a higher-ROI solution than any drug.

If doctors are only offering you treatments with devastating side-effects, that's because those are the highest-ROI treatments that exist. Doctors always prioritize safety over benefit[1]; the only time they offer unsafe treatment is when there is no safe treatment—or at least no safe treatment that pays for the costs of going through it by actually having a non-zero likelihood of helping you.

[1] For example, doctors use known placebo-equivalents as the first-line treatments for many psychiatric conditions, because placebos have no potential risks; so even if the likelihood of remission from placebo is low, as long as it's higher than zero (which it usually is in psychiatric conditions), doctors want to first make sure you aren't someone who would go into remission from placebo, before moving onto trying to treat you with drugs that actually do something (and therefore have risks.)
Wouldn't it even be better to have titled it "Utah Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies" then?

As a Washingtonian Mormon, the social system is different out of Utah than in. And again a change as you move out of the northwest to areas where there are less adherents again.
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If a medical professional puts my chances at < 5%, I'd rather find 5 charlatans, and hope that 4 of them scam me and 1 don't.
^R in bash to search command history.
I live in Utah, can confirm this is a huge thing here. Fortunately (I say fortunately because I hate MLMs) the leaders of the dominant religion here have been pretty vocal about being a little smarter with "shady investments", and I think some of them are trying to allude to MLMs. Hopefully they just say it outright some day
Sick people often seek alternative therapies because doctors do not have any treatments to offer

He had the option of chemotherapy with a 50 / 50 chance of long term survival.

The article is not about seeking alternative treatments as a last resort, it is about disregarding well proven science in favour of unproven (and in this case ineffective) alternatives.
It looks like Columbia calls the side seam pocket a "Knife pocket"?
https://www.columbia.com/mens-flex-roc-pant-1792581.html
This is really surprising to me as a Canadian. I was told that doctors in the States earn way more than doctors here.
"Under the Banner of Heaven" explains this effect a bit.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CZCGPUA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
I'm aware that mainstream archaeologist don't find evidence of an exodus of "Jewish" people from Egypt via the Sinai into Caanan. I personally don't buy their arguments (no dung piles in the desert, no artifacts found, no identification of Mt. Sinai, etc.) But I accept that no evidence is no evidence.

There is, as far as I recall, evidence of an "exodus" of sorts of the Hyksos from Egypt, but not any (solid) evidence of it happening in the manner or time described in the Biblical account.

I'm not sure I buy the Israel = Hyksos theory anyway. But this gets fairly far from my question, which really related to what the authors of this particular paper allude to, but don't say explicitly. They use some fairly strident language to describe what it is they are not talking about. I was just curious what that was, and why.
Maybe people should stop listening to corporations and start doing their own things.
How is insulting an entire population of people because of their beliefs a tolerated attitude? I don't see how it's any different than people that are anti-LGBT or racist. You may disagree but insults are not constructive and honestly, quite offensive.
This is recognized and lampooned even from within the LDS community.

For example, in the LDS film "the RM", the main character's parents are running a ridiculous MLM scheme called "LD3" (Latter Day Discount Distributors).
I agree that we should generally support the terminally ill in their efforts to seek alternative therapies. However, the point of the article is to highlight the rampant misinformation available online. Conspiracy theories about the medical industry neither provide useful solutions nor palliative care to the terminally ill. These theories are often propagated by perfectly healthy people preying on the vulnerabilities of the sick and their despondent relatives.
You need political will.

- Refuse sales of ammunition without proof of gun purchase and registration.

- Refuse gun purchase for specific gun types and if a person already has a certain number of guns.

- Mandate and enforce training before gun purchases, with obligatory re-training every X years. Checked at every purchase of ammo and guns. No training, no sale.

- Mandatory licensing for open carry. Mandatory army-level training for concealed carry. With mandatory re-training.

- Buyback and exchange plans for existing weapons.

- Huge fines (not jail time, fines) for non-compliance. Money is a much bigger deterrent than jail time.
They should definitely offer windowed cases, lots of colored LEDs, and neonz.
If you don't already sew, I'd start by making a pillowcase or a dice bag, and then maybe a shirt or something. Take some time to learn about fabric materials and weaves. Pants are notoriously hard to fit, and if you're also learning to use a sewing machine at the same time, it's gonna end in tears. Or even tears.

Youtube is chock-full of "learn to sew" videos, and you can buy paper patterns online, or in person (and get helpful advice) at your local fabric store.

The instructions that come with such patterns are bad, but still better than the average readme.

Then when you've got a feel for it, you can start drafting your own patterns. Much of the information that's available on that is for womenswear, but it doesn't take too much thought to translate things.
Are you discussing the article or specifically folks reactions in this thread? Per the article, he had reasonably good odds of recovery had he taken a traditional route. I think it's absolutely fair to say that, if your end goal is living on (it's fair if it's not that), you should generally trust doctors and medical science in aggregate over the internet, though there are certainly times when modern medicine fails.

If it becomes ableist to critique those who follow fake medical advice from the internet, how would we reduce the this happening? If people are dying as a result, that's a public health issue and it deserves attention.
I've thought about this for a long time. There should be a pathway from nurse to doctor. And maybe even from other allied health professionals too.
That’s interesting in the context of this other post also submitted to HN:

“How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking”

Direct link: https://marker.medium.com/how-mormons-built-the-next-silicon...

HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882224
You can definitely animate. It's a 2d library, but once you learn the underlying API you can absolutely extend it to allow 3d. And remember 2d doesn't mean sidescroller. Wolfenstein 3d is a 2d game, despite the name.

https://github.com/excessive/love3d
Yeah, it’s a bit intense. I’m a licensed professional engineer who works what is traditional described as a white collar job yet wear cargo pants about every day as I’m regularly in the field supervising and inspecting work. My wife is The winemaker at a small but well know boutique biodynamic winery overlooking the ocean here which is a job many people glamorize, yet likewise she wears cargo pants for work everyday (except for events of course).

By all means cargo pants for a pure coder who doesn’t tinker is sensible, but when I’m hacking away on electronics projects at home they come in handy to hold tools and parts.

In your defense I’ve found the recent trend of wealthy, highly fashionable Women wearing skin tight ancient camo patterns from the mid 20th century equally as deplorable as you speak about cargo pants here, and for all I know there is someone who can disagree with my opinion quite reasonably as well.

EDIT: The little runway video on this link about perfectly sums up everything I feel is wrong. I do not understand anything going on here - all stars with loose camo pants and a denim carhartt jacket? SMH

https://www.mrporter.com/en-us/mens/product/carhartt-wip/clo...
I honestly don’t like U.S. gun culture at all, but I grew up across from Michigan in Canada and this argument always seemed true. It’s just such a hard problem because of the huge number of guns plus the number of owners the seem to indicate you’d have to kill them to take their guns. It seems like a blood bath waiting to happen unfortunately. I hope I’m wrong.
FWIW, I'm (very gratefully) a member of the Church being mentioned here (more in my profile link, no product sales or JS at my simple site, but I explain why I am a believer in some I hope skimmable detail), and I have precisely 0.00 interest in MLMs.

Edit: A few times in my life someone has given me a pitch, someone I knew, but it never seemed to use "position" as leverage, and there are policies against such things I've heard announced at various times, like an ongoing policy against using membership lists for marketing, buildings for business ventures, etc. But it's not surprising that if someone joins such a business they are asked to pitch to those they know.
That’s amusing. Linux is great :D
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I see, yes, agreed.
I also see that this seems more specific to the culture of Utah than of the Mormon religion as you don't see this same behavior in other places with large Mormon populations such as Mexico or Brazil.
One problem with pockets down the side is if you forget to zip or bottom them, things can fall out, of you don’t design them with a trapping mechanism, but those mechanisms can make it hard to pull things out if you’re sitting, so if you will be retrieving things while seated (school), the a lower position of the pockets where they don’t need a flap trap can be better.
I think for about 250ms, yes. Because that's the start of the Unix epoch.
The attitude I'm seeing in this thread is less victim blaming and more attacking the scammers and frauds that kill people with their unethical behavior through selling quack cures to vulnerable patients. This article mentions the doctors thought with chemo, there would be a 50% chance of survival. Especially considering how advanced have made the prognosis for hodgkin's better, theres a good chance that he was denied effective treatment and his life by conspiracy theorists and quack doctors when they sucked him in with their conspiracies and lies. If it's a cancer with a 99.99% death rate and herbal teas makes them feel better in their last months, or they willingly turn down chemo with the understanding that they know it means they'll pass on, except with less pain, that's different. He had a chance and his ability to make an informed decision was robbed from him by misinformation.
Perhaps, but there are also a lot of people with not-pretend jobs that can and do wear cargo pants (and shorts!). The implication as originally written was that if you can or do wear such clothing at work, you don’t have a ‘real’ job.

That’s patently ridiculous. Heck, some of my highest earning years of late had me working with customers where I’d be more likely to see flip-flops than a collared shirt.
The bad people only need guns because the good people carry them around? How often does having a gun out and about save lives? Not prevent a robbery but save a life? How many times does it escalate a situation?
IMO, this https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/ is currently one of the best sources on deciding for a VPN provider. Or you could host your own on a cheap VPS.

But, there are few reasons to actually use a VPN nowadays, there was a discussion on HN a few days back, but I cannot seem to find it at the moment.

Edit: Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566390
Apples and oranges. Multiple film cameras firing together would also be better than multiple digitals. And you still have similar issues with knitting things together as now each camera is a slightly different perspective.
I think your comment undervalues religion as social technology by focusing on literal interpretation of myths.