skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've linked to two sites that aggregate data, and provided armchair analysis of them to back up your position.

I've linked to 30+ studies supporting mine, none of which you've mentioned or shown studies that counter them (I'd expect at least 10's of counter studies if you have any kind of a point, hundreds if it has merit deserving of such servitude).

Your examples of lockdowns "working" are East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Firstly, most of East Asia actually did comparatively little versus the West, especially early on - when they were at the epicentre - and is hampered in implementing lockdowns by a significantly higher population density, and in general, in the case of Japan, a significantly older population, placing them at an immediate disadvantage at that outset.

Your other examples of Australia and New Zealand are poor. If anything is prone to be an outlier, and worthy of less consideration versus other countries, it's these two. Especially New Zealand. It's one of the most isolated countries on the planet, has a tiny population and little through traffic. Compare numbers against any other pandemic (eg, Swine Flu 2009), and you'll see it's always going to do well just fine regardless of what measures may or may not be employed.

Considering the well-established link between the sun and the proliferation of these kinds of viruses (ie, a "flu season"), which happens for a variety of reasons (not least is Vit D production), nullifies those countries as useful controls, particularly against Europe and North America.

Finally, we have the figure of 9 million people who starve, and 8 million people who smoke, both of which are preventable, and both of which could be solved which much less effort, less expense and less social cost, and these are just two - but you still wish to persist in saving the lives of considerably fewer, the bulk of whom were already near death anyway.

None of your arguments make logical sense, and you are unable to back them up with science.

Further, you haven't bothered to even attempt to refute my core logical arguments or the bulk of science I've presented to back them up.

I'm not learning anything from this conversation, but thank you for your engagement. Go well.
Isn't it widely used for money laundering and wealth sheltering? Don't think there's an end to that money.
> Even if you start out small and later need to upscale, as long as your web application can run on the same machine as the database, which it can in 99% of the time...

It's not really "upscaling" if it still can be handled by one machine though isn't it? And it might be much cheaper to handle the same load on a number of weaker "machines" than a single powerful "machine" (replace "machine" with cloud VMs).

And for such "small-scale" problems, it's also not a big deal to run a "proper" DB server process on the same machine (but with the advantage that it's absolutely trivial to switch to multiple machines).
It makes me think of a sort social network for socially anxious people, or for people who actually only want to share stuff with their close friends. So actually this is quite different from everything else, I guess you wouldn't use it if your purpose is to have more likes, more connections, be more influencial…
Very interesting idea, why only on the AppStore?
Biomesight
Biomesight is an AI-driven wellness analytics platform with a primary focus on the gut microbiome as a leading indicator of wellness.
The way I understand it, investment is pouring into real-estate in countries thought to be long-term stable, mostly by investors in less-stable countries. The UAE has a lot going for it, but geopolitical stability isn't one of them.
This type of empty fear mongering comment is unhelpful at best. It's a McDonalds of a comment. What's a lot of people? Why are psychedelics so special compared to anything else (sugar, Facebook, gambling). "It doesn't happen to everyone, but it's common" - what does this even mean? "Common" based on what criterion? How should our behaviour as a society change based on your comment?
Sucks. But then again, anything that puts a nail in the coffin of SMS/Voice call 2fa, probably for the best. I feel bad for the genuine uses of phone tech that are targeted though.
Yes. Since we have two levels of living costs, we should have two numbers of inflation! :)

This makes me wonder: is inflation calculated based on averages or based on medians?
How will the Google update affect websites in 2021?
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Your webpage seems nice. But what does it do? The features list mentions a lot of integrations, some only by icon. But I could not where find a succinct description of what it actually does. I've never heard of calendly. So reading it is the same as calendly doesn't really help. Unless you want your visitor go check calendly to find out what it does.
There is no reason to think Starlink is a possibility. It is unfounded speculation being propagated by various social media communities.

There is not a single conclusive link between any SPAC and Starlink. All that exists is speculation, mainly (weakly) hinging on Elon's personality.
The subject has been studied. There is no good evidence supporting that.
Cause and effect is not easy to separate and anecdotal evidence is just anecdotal.

People who are not well are known to 'self medicate'.

For example: Increase of alcohol use among people with preexisting problems is well documented. Link between tobacco use and schizophrenia is also well documented. See: "Smoking and schizophrenia" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19794359/ "It has been suggested that smoking may be an attempt by schizophrenic patients to alleviate cognitive deficits and to reduce extrapyramidal side-effects induced by antipsychotic medication."

Psychedelics are not the type of drug people keep using if it harms them. If they don't work for you, you really don't want to do them again.

(ps. I would not recommend _regular_ drug use of any kind)
You're right -- a few hours ago I thought it was worth editing and noting the scale-up-instead-of-out route, but thought better of it, figuring no one would bring it up. Postgres almost certainly can't beat SQLite when it's on one machine and concurrent writers are not an issue, and you've got some seriously fast hardware to make use of.

Need network? Postgres. Don't need network? SQLite.
> The Inquisition was the first attempt at having a fair trial

Except where it wasn't. Philip IV of France specifically sanctioned torture to obtain specific confessions of defined types of heresy, in order to support his wish to deband the Templars, allowing him to sieze their land, gold and other assets. This was done in the name of the Inquisition. Later Pope Clement V tried to step in and moderate things somewhat. Many Templars recanted their earlier confessions.
Since 2014 you need to have an official permission to use a flat for AirBnb. If you suspect these are illegally rented out, you can report them to the Berlin government here:

https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/wohnen/zweckentfremdu...
I would guess that it is much more dangerous to modify a modern car because they utilize nontrivial shell geometry to improve the rigidity or to reduce weight. When I was attending driving lessons, my teacher claimed that the specific shape of the windscreen or rear window was a very important safety feature in the scenario that the car rolls over.
I do believe this thread has become self-aware. Next stop: World Domination!
There are millions of chinese and other people who want safe investment vehicles. If the government does nothing, land and housing in a big capital can easily be usurped by investors who then take massive tax breaks.
The throttling of the cpu was tied directly to the health of the battery [1], not simply by the device you were using.

There is plenty of things to be critical of Apple and any corporation for and you don't need to spread misinformation in order to do so. You can even be critical about how they approached this, but your original claim that you doubled down on is simply false.

[1] https://twitter.com/_inside/status/942817814531969024
> Making calendar scheduling work for everyone.

Well... if that were the case then this would support caldav as an open standard or at the very least mention it- as it stands it only seems to support Google Calendar. And all other (prorietary) solutions this software wants to integrate with are marked "coming soon".

For a claims like

> Our mission is to connect a billion people by 2031.

and

> What email has done to communication, we hope Calendso will do to meetings.

Thats not a lot.

Anyway I tried to run it.

This is a step that should not be neccessary

> 7. Open the prisma schema with [Prisma Studio](https://www.prisma.io/studio)

to manually create a user in the database - presumably there is a way to
have prisma create an initial "admin" (or other) user without making me drop into a database
shell.

Once in in I tried to add a google calendar, but that gave me a big red JSON error.

This software seems to not be in a usable state.
They still bill you no matter what, and if the bill is big enough they will sic collections on you.
My pet peeve: I live on KDE, yet nobody considers Qt native!

More important to me is accessibility. Does the toolkit integrate with the OS such that users can use their accessibility tools? I don't know about wx, but not all crossplatform toolkits do this consistently (or at all).
They spent 450,000 man hours to extend the ship from 195m to 210m long. That is a 7% increase in length. That seems like a lot of work for a tiny bit of gain.
While travelling in Cuba 2 friends and I hired a cab to drive us to Viñales from Havana - we ended up in a stretch Lada! Front ⅔ of 1 car, back ⅔ of another.

Felt very unsafe but we got there
Are you South Korean? What do you know about South Korea's real estate?

Either way I would say housing in Japan (considering all the constraints) seems to work great.
Productivity Booster: Command Line Happiness with Tmux
Despite having 1 dose of AZ already in my arm, it would give me great peace of mind to find some logical basis for this decision. Until then, I'll continue to suspect politics.

Country after country appears to have taken a turn doubting the vaccine. It would be normal for one or two outliers to behave this way, but for so many to defy logic - appearing to take turns falling in line with the EU message - it starts to smell a bit funny.

I've written this before, but if Britain (having left the Union) pulls this off and Europe continues to flounder, it is potentially catastrophic for the Union.
Who funded the research behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine? [pdf]
Unloading robot moves 1,600 boxes per hour using just one arm
You hit on the major problem. That it's hard to build in the city. So many ugly buildings under Denkmalschutz, so many empty concrete spaces and people still want to live where the facilities are, not in the outskirts if they have the choice.
Chris Martin is a Haskeller, and so will spend hardly any time writing type specifications. He'll let the compiler infer them.

I'm very enthusiastic about static types with global type inference, where I don't have to write a single type annotation if I don't want to. My enthusiasm degrades pretty quickly the more annotations I have to manually clutter my code.
I worry that the opposite problem also exists – that if one disagrees with some criticism of Elon Musk or one of his companies, one is sometimes then accused of "idolising him" or of viewing him as "immune to criticism".

I think the vast majority of SpaceX fans would agree there are valid criticisms of Elon Musk. A couple of obvious ones: (a) his timelines are usually overly optimistic – he delivers a lot, but he very often delivers it later (sometimes even a lot later) than he initially said he would; (b) sometimes he speaks off-the-cuff too much (especially on Twitter) and ends up saying things he (very likely) later regrets saying (such as the 'pedo guy' episode, or the 'taking Tesla private' episode)
I don't have experience with large SQLite databases. I had PostgreSQL take over 40 minutes for recovery on a 2 TB database set to checkpoint every 30 minutes. How long it takes will depend on the WAL size, the frequency of checkpoints and the operations that were performed before a crash/snapshot.
Malopropism! That has just become my word of the day. Thanks.
How can you catch allocation failure from ::new? Is it possible without exceptions (which have some other problems in kernel space)?
Windows Sandbox Architecture
For more discussion on this topic there is /r/shroomstocks[0]

And PsilocybinAlpha[1] monitors companies in the sector.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/shroomstocks/

[1] https://psilocybinalpha.com/
I use DDG as my main search engine but I share the parent's concerns. In the end an ad-driven business model will always pit the interests of its users vs the interests of the advertisers.

Should DDG become ultra-successful, how long until they start making concessions to privacy to increase revenue and growth? After all not so long ago Google themselves were "the good guys" and we were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Turns out that "Do No Evil" only really works until it starts clashing with "Make More Money".
Also, and maybe most important:

In the majority(?) of cases it did not work.

Landlords found absurd ways to work around it. Many not necessary fully legal but only in a way that if no one who is "hurt" by it sues the state can not act.

There where enough people which where open to pay the de-facto increased "not so legal" Rent, and as such would definitely not sure.

A common trick was to pair the rent contract with Renting some token furniture for completely unreasonable (and as such somewhat illegal/moon-) prices. (note: this wasn't the same as the rent prices for furnished apartments exception thingy mentioned by others)

Again if both renter and rentee are happy with it there is nothing which the state could have done.

Also more apartments where sold instead of rented out, in turn decreasing the amount of rente-able apartments while the demand did change (maybe except due to COVID, I would have to look it up). Furthermore it's not uncommon that such apartments do not enter the rent pool again even if the person in question leaves Berlin (and then illegally perma rents it over RBnB to tourists, or keeps it empty or resells it or ...)

Lastly due to majorly increased renovation costs (as far as I know) and now rent caps it was basically much less likely for any new apartments to be added to the pool. And even (potentially necessary) renovations of existing ones was much less likely done (as far as I have heard from people involved in that business, through not the very big players, but it matches the experience other cities which did impose rent caps had).

And just to be clear Rents in Berlin reaching a point where it's problematic for many people from Berlin to pay them IS a massive problem. Just that this law as far as I can tell would not have solved it and maybe even made it worse. Also yes Rents had been unusual low in the past (I'm personally profiting from this) but now they have gone beyond any reasonable price in many cases (at least in context what many people earn in Berlin).
NFTs Explain Everything Wrong with Art
This really needs CalDAV integration to be interesting for either enterprise or personal use.

Especially with marketing like "Built for teams that need more control", "we're committed to give developers, small businesses and enterprise the power to connect with anyone and make friends or business", "Calendso comes with plenty of integrations, as well as the ability to build custom integrations for any platform out there"...
Stacks' Accelerator Fund for Developers Announced
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Just a personal note, I experienced the complete opposite. I knew I wanted to do great things and accomplish things of importance, but depression was like a black cloud holding me back from doing so. Psychedelics took away that cloud and also infused a deep level of meaning into my everyday life.

I went from depressed and basically dropping off the edge of the world to traveling across the world and starting a startup with new friends in a different continent, which was just now recently acquired.

What might interest you is all the psychedelics I did were technically legal. Shoutout to 4-AcO-DMT and 4-HO-DMT.
Might say "Optimized for privacy-respecting browsers. Chrome users might experience issues [more info]"
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What about Tempelhofer Feld?
What about all the Kleingartenkolonien inside and by the Ring?
> The web is already federated, YouTube just happens to be one of the most popular nodes.

The network layer of the web is federated, but the application layer usually isn't. That is, if you care just about who you send TCP traffic to, then yes, the internet alone is sufficient, but if you want to think about federation at the content level, the internet alone enables that but doesn't make it very easy. Something like PeerTube makes it easy. And you need to pull it up to the content/application level if you want to do things like implement content searching/filtering across a federated network of hosts.

> Fediverse systems like PeerTube are great, but they don't change anything

Disagree. Nobody can host their own YouTube server. That's the point of federated video hosting: (a) anyone can spin up their own host (or join a host they agree with if they don't have the tech skills) and (b) these hosts can network with like-minded hosts to build a YouTube-sized content library without any single entity owning the entire library. A world without PeerTube would not give typical users this option.

> in a world where something like PeerTube is as popular as YouTube we'd see the exact same complaints about the most popular node.

We are starting to see this problem a bit on Mastodon because people are piling into the most popular node and having their opinions about how it should run instead of understanding that the point is if they disagree with how a node is run, it's (relatively) easy to run one of their own (or bribe a technical friend into running one). But I'd argue this is a problem in the domain of user understanding/education rather than a problem built into the nature of Mastodon whereas centralized global-scale moderation is a problem baked into YouTube.
From the article:

"The size of the Supreme Court, which has fluctuated since it was established in 1789, has remained at nine since 1869."
Intriguing that the motivation for coinbase was:

"Credit card fees are too high. In the next five years merchants are going to start moving away from..."

I think it's fair to say he was actually wrong. But succeeded nonetheless because everyone now wants to get rich speculating on cryptos, which is the dominant reason they are so popular.
It's a shame that none of the citations in the article are from any Indian source, from any of the various yogic lineages or masters.

I feel it's pretty racist, like blackface.
It's not great but that kind of salary is still higher than most of western Europe. Young software engineers in France or Spain don't earn as much.
Yeah, I absolutely need a good keyboard.

Thinkpads X1s look really nice. Why is it better than XPS?
This is either willfully ignorant statement or simply malicious thought to discredit Yoga from it's ancient roots.
A blog post of cherry-picked, unsourced comments doesn't prove that modern Yoga poses are Swedish.

Yoga is a ancient system and like many systems in the orient, it is quite malleable and has been modernized with time. There are many aspects of Yoga and merely reducing it to "certain body poses" and claiming it's Swedish, is cultural appropriation at it's finest.
seems like they're coopting privacy awareness to advertise themselves. the site appears to be a walking talking duckduckgo ad, with just enough other content sprinkled in to seem like actual advice.

I mean it's not as nefarious as it could be since they are actually privacy focused, but this blend of advice and advertisement is rubbing me the wrong way
I never mentioned the rate of taxes. I mentioned that the method of doing it already exists.

Since I responded to:

> But it's not easy to ask people to live with less, so others can live with some.

US taxes are too low. I agree, but I don't live in the US. Taxes in Belgium are much higher.

Both countries have taxes and i wouldn't want communism either.
One thing is for sure. A big boat was stuck in the Suez Canal recently.
Well just believe in ourselves and dump a bunch of money into businesses...
ZipDial have been referenced 43 times in this article!
Is this some of marketing move?
I think there is value in acknowledging that the holocaust wasn't an isolated event but has centuries of context. Multiple times the only thing saving us from a holocaust-like event was that we didn't have the technical means and infrastructure to do it.

That doesn't make the holocaust less bad, if anything it means we have to be even more vigilant to make sure it doesn't happen again
2 doses of psilocybin, vs 6 weeks of SSRI's..! They also seem to cite a big difference in lasting happiness, altough that wasnt the focus of the study.