skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand you correctly, you're reasoning that the word cult is a derogatory term aimed at non Semitic religious practices. I don't think that reasoning seem sound, and here's why.

Firstly, the negative connotation is but the most recent way the word has been used to color something in an immoral or bad way. Even using the word cult in a secular way (“the cult-following of Twilight Zone”) seem to be older, and more positive overall.

Secondly, the word cult is a useful and suiting word in religious science when referring to religious worship and devotion - often aimed at a particular phenomenon within a larger religious context, such as a specific deity in a pantheon (in this light, the article use of the word seem less fitting).

Third, and I may be wrong on this one as I base it on pure intuition. From a Semitic perspective, other religious practices has been viewed historically as less legitimate, more primitive or outright as false practices at odds with say, Christianity. Those “heretic” practices has often been linked to Satan himself, causing many religious or spiritual traditions to be regarded as simply Satanic cults. Of course, this is negative press for the accused - but Satanism is also a Semitic religious idea.

My point is lost, but Should we continue to refer to Satanism as an immoral threat to society?
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
"In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.[1][2]:348–56 It is usually considered pejorative."

I am sure the Catholic church would object to being called a cult in the English speaking world, do realise that a different set of laws might apply to a cult as against a religion.
There's a media war on Raoult in France.

I don't know if Chloroquine is effective on COVID 19, but I know that it's comically cheap and people took it for years against malaria without side effects.
So at worse it's a placebo.

On the other hand there's Remdesivir that's astronomically expensive, destroys kidneys and hasn't any effectiveness against COVID (even the OMS says so).
But it's still the recommended treatment in France since they forbid the chloroquine treatment.

Color me skeptical about their motivations but all the big proponents of Remdesivir have financial links with Gilead.
Thanks, that's useful.

I guess I'm happy to open-source my code for other people to use, but I'm not at all interested in acquiring an unpaid job as "maintainer" (and I really don't care how many other people use my code).
And if you want to specialize a general string to a template litteral at runtime you cannot.

Most of the time you want to validate user strings/runtime generated strings. On most applications compile time strings are very few and not need validation. When you need validation of strings you generally need only runtime or both and then why duplicate the runtime validation with another compile time validation that take an alternative syntax?
This seems 1) a niche feature
And 2) a feature that users will misunderstand, the only dev I know which read about the feature think it works at runtime. Also I believe that existing template litteral do accept general strings I did a POC a few months ago so that's weird but maybe that TS can determine that a string is from runtime and then refuse it at compile time.
Windows Turns 35 Years Old Today: Here's a Visual History
This is the first time in a long time I've heard anyone refer to cmd as a "good tool". It's a legacy from DOS. Not in the literal sense of course but in the sense of the builtins, syntax and the horrendous BAT.

Mind you DOS had a lot of fans even in the late 90's/00's so of course it had its advocates. But they are much rarer nowadays.
Considering the anti-christian tone of the game I think they were completely missing Christians. (I haven't played the game, so I'm taking the article's word on how it portrays Christians as fact, which might or might not be true) You cannot claim diversity if you are missing a faction - even if the faction is one you consider against your beliefs.
Google isn't restricting other/embedded browsers from the rest of the internet, Google is restricting them from its own sign-in page.
I looked it up just to be sure:

> A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.

Based on the article, this seems to have been the dominant religion in the area. Norse and Rus ship burials are fairly well-documented so I must agree with the grandparent: using the word cult seems quite derogative.
+1 right on.

I would like to see more companies open source their commercial products after maintaining them is not cost effective. I would like to see mostly open source code, period.

re: Lisps: I have been using Common Lisp since 1982 (and other Lisps before that) and I love it that my old code and archives of other peoples’ Common Lisp code usually runs with no problems.
Didier Raoult is one of the brightest scientists in the world. Period.

There’s no “major” flaw in his studies as people keep repeating.

He was studying viral load in patients and excluded those who were in ICU because they did not have enough virus left.

Thus suggesting his cocktail as an early treatment.

There is indeed pseudoscientists and corrupt ones who published the famous now but ridiculous study in “the lancet” and who promote remdesivir.

Edit: https://c19study.com/
If the code isn't going to change, you could statically compile it and it will run just fine.
Going by the amount of roblox-related questions we get in the Lua communtiy, it seems to be doing pretty fine I'd say.
I am in a similar role and have the exact same opinion. Most vendors lack flexibility, can have significant costs even for small teams, and, at the end of the day, an in-house built solution isn't that difficult.

I think it's going to be a tough road to build a sustainable business in this space.
American Journal Publishes Pokémon Satire on Covid with Bruce Wayne Quote
Overstock is going for ~1.4 times sales (and that's 3x inflated versus May due to OSTK recently joining the bubble party).

If by some miracle Wish gets 15x, they'll be a spectacular short opportunity.
Found the video where he says this: https://youtu.be/PRQVzPEyldc
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> Aren't politics and related dynamics drastically different today

The long and short of it is that no, politics are not drastically different. It's a thing of basically every generation to think the world is significantly different than what the last generation will understand. Suffice to say this is usually not true in the broad strokes, which is really what matters.

If I can already have this moderating insight, imagine what someone twice (or maybe even three times) my age would be able to see. They'll have an overview of history that you (and I) in your naivety simply do not have.
Do you think many 10 year olds play AC? I would have thought their target group is much older.

I'm also not quite sure what you're insinuating by bringing up kids and computer game violence?
"the best decision is to let vaccinate everybody else but don't take vaccine yourself"

This is unfortunately exactly what anti-vaxxers do, they enjoy the benefits of herd immunity thanks to the vast majority of people getting vaccinated but spread negativity & doubt about the vaccine at the same time. The current Covid vaccines have had a very large testing group and been put through the same strict regulations as any other vaccine. The only reason there is chatter about not taking it is due to the current political / media climate.

"Remember, it is going to be pricey and many people will choose not to vaccinate for financial or other reasons"

What do you base this on?
> We don't know yet if there are complications from the vaccine. It is not possible to judge long term effects of anything based on very short exposure

...

> Looking at this selfishly and from PoV of game theory, the best decision is to let vaccinate everybody else but don't take vaccine yourself. Obviously, not everybody can make same decision

There are two different ways a medicine might have long term unintended and currently unknown effects.

1. It does some kind of permanent damage to you fairly immediately after taking it that takes a long time to show noticeable effects, or

2. It does some some kind of damage that is not permanent and won't lead to any long term noticeable effects as long as the original damage is allowed to heal or at least not made worse.

Category two is what you have to worry about with things you have to take regularly, because they can accumulate the damage or risk and it can take many years before it accumulates to the point that we might notice.

Because this is a not a "take every year" kind of vaccine, I don't think there is much need to worry about category two.

With "take it once" types of medicine (yes, I know some vaccines require more than one dose over a week or two, which counts as taking it once when considering long term effects), with wide deployment, I'd expect any unintended and unknown long term side effects to start being found within maybe a year of wide deployment.
I said essentially the same thing 10 days ago and this is what Walter Bright, creator of D, said: "There are a number of generous corporations and individuals helping us out in various ways, including cash contributions to the D Foundation."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25040397
I wonder if both these sites use some of the same code - in both ProgrammingFonts and DevFonts the language switcher is broken for me (Firefox, mac).
Fwiw, my wife wanted a synthetic diamond and we found they were much more difficult to obtain in practice than was acknowledged. Like going to a listing of many many stones but they were all unavailable because they were out of stock or backordered or no one would ever respond. My sense at the time the supply and/or market were inflated to attract investors and maintain attention.

I do hope that's changed because we were really interested. But at the time it was a big mirage.
Okay, gonna take a look at that once it's available.
> Most women that have "providers" also have "lovers" and usually it is not the same person.

Women should know this works both ways..
> If by some very low chance this introduces an inheritable change, and if by an even lower chance that inheritable change leads to genetic collapse in 10-20 generations - just to be very clear, this is extremely unlikely - we have opened the window to humanity's end.

That's such a vague, unqualified (in the "lacking specificity" sense) concern, that you could apply that to practically any new technology or medical treatment.

10-20 generations is 250-500 years, if somehow this particular vaccine did cause inheritable damage, I'm sure that medical technology would be advanced enough at that point to find a solution.

And on that timescale there's also much more tangible and evidential existential crises, like climate change and nuclear war.
I genuinely feel sorry for you. I have no idea what it's like to be so disconnected from reality, but I hope you find your way back one day.

(Downvotes = proof I am right. Period)
Few key facts:

• In the entire history of vaccines, only one has been recalled because the vaccine itself caused long term side effects (a rotavirus vaccine that had rare complications and no deaths for those under 1yr). If you can't find any papers about it, that's why. It's like finding a paper on death by lava lamp explosions. It's happened (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-01-na-brief....), but not enough to study it.

• Much of the speed was gained by relaxing enrollment rules, which are for study participant safety. The majority of normal study participants join in the last year or two anyways.

• These studies were larger than usual to make up for the decreased time. 30,000 people is a lot, and plenty to check for rare side effects.

• Then compare the odds that there's a common reaction that didn't show up in 30,000 participants against the ~5-10% chance of serious health complications from COVID. It's a no-brainer.

You can read the list of recalled vaccines and why they were recalled straight from the FDA (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....).
> ≠ is easier to understand than !=

I respectfully disagree with this claim.

It's conventional code notation that != is a Boolean test for (in)equality; that convention doesn't apply to ≠, which is overloaded in mathematics.
I got into programming with 12 with very little actual motivation to program anything. I read a book, did the exercises and understood pretty much everything on first try. It took me around a month to get through the book. After that I never used my programming skills until I was 16 and wanted to make Minecraft mods.

Joining IRC a modding channel and talking to Mojang devs every now and then was a pretty interesting experience.

I doubt that this is possible nowadays, especially after Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang.

My memory is failing me but I also saw Drew DeVault on IRC using his former online nick and since I pretty much used IRC exclusively for minecraft related things he must have done something related to minecraft back then as well.
Yeah a dark theme is planned and also a static display with all icons of a dashboard fitting the screen size for those who don't like to swipe.

Yes for sure it's configurable and we'll do a demo on YouTube of the desktop application which is basically the admin interface. It can be used as a speed dial too on PC as its features are reflecting those of the android app.

We focus on the job only for now and we'll see about macros after the first release.
Sure why not, they were in the british isles in the 5th century. I only used it as an example because I'm reading a book about them atm. ;)
From the article:

> for Emergency Use Authorization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_use_authorization

> authorizes FDA to facilitate availability of an unapproved product, or an unapproved use of an approved product, during a declared state of emergency from one of several agencies or of a "material threat" by the Secretary of Homeland Security

Rushed, yes, but via an existing set of rules for this sort of scenario. It's an appropriate use of this sort of process, but it does come with some risks.
> This feels like both an anecdote

Definitely. This is just something I've noticed.

> and a straw man.

Wait what? I was just bringing up something I've noticed. How is this a straw man? As I said before, this is by no means a firm rule, just something that I noticed is frequently the case.

PS. Thanks for linking those blog's, I've added both to my reading list.
I find the two pretty orthogonal...
Thanks for the info.

I'm curious why there is a need for "professional" standards here?

I feel that this is, by definition, not "professional" - that would require payment.

Also, the imbalance of jerks behaving like jerks but everyone else has to act responsibly: in a work setting, sure - you don't get to choose your colleagues and you need to get along. But in this setting - why can't a maintainer just tell a jerk to fk off?
This award isn't about those other studies, it's about his choice to over-egg his research.

> Subsequent analysis of Raoult’s data found that his sample size was incredibly small, with only 6 patients given the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combination. The study was also found to be improperly controlled, and data was excluded for a number of patients whose condition worsened as they were either transferred to intensive care, or died. Subsequent studies have shown no clinical benefit for the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19.

> After Raoult’s study inspired a surge of interest in the use of hydroxychloroquine, [...]

His not very good research caused huge amounts of interest in hydroxychloroquine and distracted attention from other, far more beneficial, treatment.
It is not uncommon for some religious groups to distort or manipulate academic output, so what is obvious nonsense today becomes a fact a decade in the future.
Rust has a worse story in development happiness for the forseeable future as well compared to those languages.
Isn’t it pretty easy to sequence anyways? Assuming you can get a hold of a vaccine sample.
It's a massively, massively popular platform of games for the elementary school crowd. You can buy gift cards for it in grocery stores. Each game is different, but the look, feel, and controls are mostly the same. Most games are multiplayer.
I've been using Go/Go Mono as system fonts for a while, and they're one of my favorite typefaces. Their spiritual predecessors, Luxi Sans/Serif/Mono, are also worth checking out.
Where is Terminus?
It can be worse than a placebo if it is not effective but physicians think it is: this would lead to patients not being given alternative (& effective) treatments - if any, or being less monitored since they are expected to get better with the drug.
> In 2018, a study team including CDC scientists analyzed and published vaccine safety data on adjuvanted pH1N1 vaccines (arenaprix-AS03, Focetria-MF59, and Pandemrix-AS03) from 10 global study sites. Researchers did not detect any associations between the vaccines and narcolepsy.
Thank you. It will be be multiple readings before I sufficiently understand this.
Electron is a cancer.
I Learned Haskell (2017)
For sure, we'll think about the way it will work. We'd like to extract the program's window title and a progress value in percent or a status.

Local webhooks could also be a thing ;-)
The only thing you need to defend in a game is why it doesn't have laser raptors, because there is no game that doesn't get better with laser raptors.
Unless you bought a c64 and realized you can't use any old tape recorder, but had to buy a proprietary (albeit much more reliable) commodore tape deck.
this is great, thanks for the pointer, great example for effective communication
Sounds like a reasonable position, until you extend the analogy: there is a slight, but nonetheless real chance that said armor has seriously adverse health effects on you. Maybe it spontaneously grows spikes and punctures your insides.

Additionally, you also have, as an individual, the option to just stand further back in the line. You don't have to get in immediate contact with the enemy, you can just go to the back of the army and wait for some time until the experimental armor is battle tested.

What sounds like the more rational choice (from an individual standpoint) now?

EDIT: not sure why this is getting downvotes. I do agree that the risk equation does seem leaning towards taking the vaccine. Tests have been conducted with >30.000 people, and so far it seems safe. There still exists of course a probability of that not being the case, but compared to the (known, and very real) side effects of covid, taking the vaccine asap even if it's version 1.0 seems like the sensible choice.

Still, parents analogy seemed flawed so I tried to extend it.
Ah you’re right. Weird, I could have sworn during the original announcement they were going to have support for runtime checking
What Stress Does to Your Brain
I have 5 Ceph nodes, 2 OpenStack nodes, 1 backup target, 3 switches, 1 pfsense router, 1 freeipa server and my desktop. The homelab is kept in the furnace room. It is almost completely on atom or xeon-d boards, so the power usage hard drives aside isn't too bad. The room does get a bit warm though, even when the furnace is off. They are kept in a 36U rack.
2.4rem for their paragraph font and a 1.75 line-height...

How is duospace for programming? Breaking the alignment isn't an issue?
I found it to be the opposite. Have I been pwned is very exhausting to check with dozen of email addresses, or can one check whole domains?
There are 1-2 good books on it. I've skimmed them via O'reilly Safari when I needed something in the past.
A good portion of the WHO is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Imagine contributing billions towards world health and then somehow you are painted as the villain by insane people like Q, Russian propaganda and anti-Vaxx organizations.
who would be the ones that are reporting closest to real-time?
Sure, but there are people in this thread who think that testing can never be harmful and can never put people on a pathway to harm.

PSA testing is similar: you don't go direct to treatment after PSA testing, yet we know that PSA screening does cause over-treatment.
Seems like the only way for this to work out at all is for the hero to go home after a year (ie before converting): grow old. The entire setting needs to be an old man telling young kids about the old glory and trying to convert them from Christianity. That is about the only way you can justify only showing those actions: his memory, and latter life surrounded by Christian means he wants to remember only those parts. But now you really need to get the player to realize that this his a romanticized past - the player must spend a lot of time seeing contradictions in the player (that is it becomes obvious some things didn't happen the way the player played them!). There are a lot more implications of this line that I can figure out in a few minutes.
Although he's Italian (and created by the Japanese), Mario is a common Hispanic name, but I never really cared about that back then.

It was something that he was a 'human', since Pac-man, Q*bert, Donkey Kong, and Frogger weren't.
There are two problems here, one is reddit preventing new comments on old posts, which is not inherehent to tree-style threads.

The other is that trees make it harder to keep up with ongoing discussions as you can no logner just continue reading from where the thread was at when you last visited. Reddit actually has an OK solution for that which highlights new comments since your last visit(s) but it is only available to moderators or paid users.

Another possible solution would be a better notification system - with forums you can typically watch a thread to get notifications for any posts but with Reddit you only get notfications for direct comments to your post/comment.