skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's money. As others have said there's not enough money in it. My guesses are the following.

Survivorship and confirmation bias. If a thousand doctors try it out then a few of them will statistically see incredible results. They will then be "on board", confirm amongst each other, and be skeptical any data that shows otherwise.

Plain bias. Just being anti-vax and jumping onto anything that avoids vaccination. Or being anti-government and jumping onto anything that is opposite of what CDC promotes. Or being among the anti-science variant of religious and jumping onto anything that shows religion over science.

It's not particularly these people's "fault" that they're behaving how they do. It's just human nature.

There are others that I think are doing it primarily for notoriety. Joe Rogan, Simone Gold, etc. But the thing is, the people enamored with the anti-science or anti-vax or anti-government schtick are going to find someone to champion their cause, and once you start down that path it's hard to turn back.
>those in power are obliged to accept all arguments on their individual merits.

Ok, so if you accept that those in power can address arguments on their individual merits, then what is the problem with a private company (youtube, NYtimes etc) removing content so ludicrous and ungrounded in reality that it could hurt people (eg that vaccines contain 5G chips, that covid can be cured by inhaling hydrogen peroxide, or that ICU doctors are actually killing COVID patients)?
Well, it'd be pretty easy to partially back tether.

Create new tether, declare 1:1 fiat, sell new tether for 1 fiat each.

It only really becomes a problem if they're trying to be completely backed, as new tether isn't an option then.
No need for the disrespectful tone. You're violating a lot of HN's community guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's almost like we're emerging into a world just like the world when antibiotics were invented, but for antivirals. We basically had just a small handful of treatments for viruses, now there's a huge pipeline all of a sudden. Maybe in the future, having effective antivirals for just about any virus will be the norm, not the exception.
Flip it around: why aren't you the one engaging in confirmation bias?

Look at the comment down-thread. Only 44% of a set of highly cited clinical trials had been successfully replicated and 32% appeared to be wrong when replications were done. That's for clinical trials, let alone stuff like social psych! Given a random clinical trial it is in fact pretty reasonable to assume it's wrong, and might even be rational, given that you'd hope highly cited and impactful studies are more likely to be correct than not.

But don't take my word for it. Take it from a former editor of the BMJ:

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

"Science" really is just that terrible, unfortunately.
When I posted the story I posted the link to archive also. I never post links to paywalls, unless there is an archive link available.
I’m not so sure it will collapse (now), this settlement adds legal clarity. The CFTC has set their parameters in the settlement and will enforce compliance, BitFinex/Tether paid a fine. Tether will be stronger through greater reserve and investment grade requirements, and more transparent.
This is exactly what I need....but i searched by ingredients with 'chicken breast' and 'jalapeno' and it returned 0 results. Then i searched 'chicken' and 'jalapeno' and it returned 1 result. Seems undercooked (pun very much intended)
I still use and like Opera. Vivaldi feels a bit bloated. On the other hand, some features of Vivaldi are really cool (RSS, mail client).
"Hundreds of thousands" according to an organization (the CDC) that has strong incentives to inflate the numbers, sourced from a disparate collection of doctors and hospitals that also have incentives to inflate the numbers, using squishy metrics for whether the death was caused by COVID or not.

Nobody sane thinks that a lot of people haven't died from COVID - but it should be common sense that you should be careful when an organization or individual has an incentive to alter data.

As to GP's main point, separately from whether the official numbers are correct, there are ways that you can take the same data and "spin" it - the "blindly catastrophizing" mentioned. For instance, using "six hundred thousand" - the official number of all-time deaths - instead of the number of yearly deaths. You can also tactfully omit contextual information - for instance, COVID was the third leading cause of death in the US for 2020[1], making up only about 11% of the total, and close to half of the next leading cause, cancer (345k vs. 598k).

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234
Open question: Has this been priced in by the market?
The less than stellar public policies that have come to us as a result of circle jerks within the fields of sociology and criminal justice (and others) are probably better examples.
This obsession with productivity is not healthy, and a young man's game. Relax for a second, will ya. Think before you act.
Yeah I think you have to misrepresent to get people in, but personally I don't like that. I would rather we don't lie about it and Buddhism (for example) dies than we misrepresent it.
I don’t know specifically of Mr. Jeffries ideology but his parable hit home for me. My work often runs projects or chooses software in a similar manner to how Baseball was modified. It ends up poorly because there’s a common thread of ignoring the warnings and best practices of the authors of the products or software.

As an example, we moved our apps to the 12 Factor Manifesto style but not really. It was decided that some requirements were silly and new incompatible requirements were added. Now our apps won’t run in a 12 Factor environment and 12 Factor apps won’t run in our own environment. I just spent about a week getting an open source 12 Factor app running in our environment because of those changes.

I don’t believe our changes added any material benefits to the business or how we work, let alone offer an improvement over 12 Factors.

The way we got there wasn’t far off from the story. Lots of criticism about how things were inefficient or won’t scale despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
> Second, you're wrong.

So you know better than me what source code I've read so far? Do you also happen to know what did I do with my spare camera battery? That could be useful.
Same. I may have bought a PinePhone but it's running mobian with phosh, so all the heavy lifting to get a working phone UI was done by Purism including GTK libraries like libhandy (now libadwaita).

I'm ever grateful for their work.
Hum... The issue is stronger than that.

The Agile principles are completely opposite to getting a consultant (or in-house expert) to design you a process. You can do Agile or get a designed process, not both. Thus if a consultant works on designing Agile processes, he must not have any idea what he is doing, your second point is necessarily true, on every instance.

Also, "trying agile" has a strong connotation of trying a canned process, what is necessarily means you don't get to follow the Agile principles.
> The problem is the system.

The problem is the people. Everything else after that I agree with. For a completely free market to work 100% of the people would have to be moral, upstanding people.

A completely free, unregulated, market is an anarchocapitalist's utopia. Like how a working socialist government is a utopia.

Neither of those is realistic though, so we have a regulated free market.
> and there's no significant barrier to compliance

Imagine that you have two part time jobs, and you are just barely covering rent and other expenses. If you get vaccinated, you might have to miss a day or two. As a result, your boss might cut your hours or just fire you outright.

Is that not a significant barrier? Who would you think is more likely to be in this kind of situation?
It's too bad we couldn't arrange it so that one vaccine could be the "Trump vaccine" that Republicans could get and another could be the "Fauci vaccine" for Democrats. Then people could express their political affiliations in their medical choices but still get vaccinated. There were a lot of Democratic politicians talking about not trusting rushed vaccines a year ago and if that could have focused on specific vaccines and kept going maybe we'd be in a better place today with regards to vaccinations.
There aren't really anymore advances in stealth and armor. If anything anti-stealth and anti-armor tech is advancing much more rapidly.

What is advancing is area denial, anti-drone tech, and active protection systems.
Twitter is worse
> true "heads up display" that you can bet your life on, anywhere on earth, at any time, is just a truly massive undertaking.

At some point you have to make a cost-benefit analysis and look at the bigger picture. For example and in this particular case, yes, spending let’s say 10 billion instead of 22 billion for a rougher solution might increase the dead count on the battlefield in the near future, but if those 12 billion that you’ve now saved go to better free education at home (more engineers in the future to design better weapons) or/and to free healthcare (more fit soldiers in the future) maybe it will all even out at a higher threshold.
They always had a launch vehicle. The JWST is a joint NASA-ESA-CSA project. The ESA is responsible for the launch as part of the project.
Yeah that was the first thing that went through my mind too. There are few traditional news outlets that don't try and incite rage driven attention. The globe and mail is not a tabloid (last I checked, I'm 10 years into a boycott) but it still tries to bait people into viewing its stories in a way that's tailored to its readership.
Kinda makes one wonder what all the fuss about billionaires going to space is about. VR industry isn't exactly lacking in private funding rightnow. My guess is that this money is strategically aligned with shoring up chip manufacturing in the US (since I am guessing all the parts for this will be required to be sources domestically)
Is many adverbs better?

I like being concise; maybe better not ask concise people for recommendation letters
This is a slap on the wrist. Tether's current market cap is $68.5 billion of printed money that users assume is really held in bank reserves.

Expect a massive cryptocurrency crash if Tether's regulatory downfall finally occurs; a majority of exchange trading pairs are between currencies and USDT. (not financial advice)
Pip vs. Conda: an in-depth comparison of Python’s two packaging systems
I don't know about #4. I use async several places in my django 2.x project without issue. I'm not entirely sure where django it self might need to be made async
I think it was inevitable that any form progress made in computer vision will more or less be applied to perfecting facial recognition.

Yes, incredible amount of progress has been made in using computer vision to identify diseases but the authoritarian and workplace use case of computer vision is absolutely effective at present time.

Orwellian tech isn't sudden, it is a creep, it is comfort, it is an acceptable cost of convenience.
I didn't suggest to count on shrink-wrap, but on reusable hoods, and some sort of net over that. The net can be see in the video.

I also have moved countless pallets and boxes a really loong time ago for about a year. In an eight (metric) ton forklift, going up to 12 meters high, and up to 35kph fast. Needing a change of batteries by another forklift every other half of the shift ;>
Wild guess, probably more than 2 years ahead (also kinda what I'm hoping for)

A natively distributed runtime providing similar capabilities to Docker + Nomad but running on "bare" WASM, providing a compilation target, distributed and clustering primitives right in your application code.

Imagine the nodejs cluster module, targeting nomad directly, or talking to an instance of a service running on another node, the communication and addressing would be handled by the runtime.

Similarly, cluster or instance level ports could be opened directly from your code and the distributed runtime will do the external/internal load balancing. Maybe taking it one step further and advertising services directly abstracting ports away.

Service mesh + Scheduling + Capability-based Runtime in one binary you could run on Linux. One can dream.
Steam is removing NFT games from the platform
The best language to use is rarely the hot language at the moment. You have to choose if you want to learn a business or learn a stack.

Not using php or something simple for you it will hold you back. Setting up a top of the line container devops system will slow you down and gives you a false sense that you are doing anything.

It is nice to start with the cleanest best office with a desk but if you spend your time focusing on making your office better you never focus on the actual job.

Years ago I worked for a guy who fell into this.
Successful career in insurance industry but going through a failed mariage he pivoted and quit his job and started a recruitoring firm. The office he rented was near my college and he offered me a job.. I was employee #1. First day we decided to skip work and we went on a bonding trip playing golf and go by his exes house to steal a chair. Everyday he would find something to do from making business cards, to buying office supplies to going to colleges to randomly meet people and tell them what we did. He hired two more college students to make a website. Everyday he found something to do.. but he never sat in the office and made the calls he needed to. There was always something else to do. When the money ran out (very soon) and he crashed his car drunk. No one got paid (aside from me) in the backrupacy. In the end he ended up back in insurance in a new relationship he found along the way.

He was playing CEO. Don't play CEO or CTO. Sit down and make the difficult calls.
I know Facebook is the great evil, but we really need to start looking at the mental health impacts of all social media. The unhappiest people I know are not on Facebook - they are religiously devoted to Twitter and Reddit. Heck, I'd like to know what sort of damage this post right here is doing to me.

This is our generation's smoking but everyone only wants to know how harmful Marlboros are.

Edit: Please upvote this more. I need to feel like my views are validated.
YC (in)famously backed InstallMonetizer in W12.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
It's definitely the format and the quantity for me. Seeing an old friend in person and having them tell me about their life and accomplishments, even showing me pictures, does not make me feel the same way. I think it's also the fact that I turn to social media when I'm feeling lonely, so seeing a feed of people at their best moments, on vacation with friends, getting married, having children, etc... makes me feel even more lonely and isolated. Also, social media is full of people that I have lost touch with, who never check in with me or reach out to see how I'm doing. I've found that I feel much more connected by reaching out to old friends one on one and catching up with them via texting or phone calls. Likes and comments just don't cut it.
Can someone imagine a world where the fine for tether is sufficiently large , that they dont have a capacity to pay it, and thus, blowing up the entire thing ?
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If you join a gang you know what you're signing up for, and I find it hard to argue that an individual doesn't have the right to end their own life.
No.

Given the time period: 2006, this was about OOP development and/or XML. I'm talking about hardcore consultant stuff: UML diagrams and gantt charts.

Agile was in its infancy in 2006. No one would be making a joke like this about Agile at that time.

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Alternatively, maybe the author was familiar with OOP / UML / Agile and decided that making this blogpost applicable to all 3 with an allegory was good? But I'd expect that most readers were thinking UML diagrams instead of standup meetings.
That's a great app idea!

A while back I wanted to create something similar that'd help me ride every path and side streeet here in Boulder, CO, but it never went anywhere. I especially like the Pac-man idea for unexplored paths!

Any plan to extend it outside of Calgary?
No, because Tether can issue it's own coins to pay for it.

Like trying to fine the US Government.
> If current progress is sustained, Kernza® seed size will be 50% as large as annual wheat seed in the next 10 years. Beyond that, breeders are working on developing shorter plants that are easier to grow with improved flavor and functionality.

So... Less viable than alpacas.

Harvesting a grass without killing the plant is going to be interesting. Maybe they can get John Deere to invest now and provide extra help at the breeding stage for making the harvesting equipment exclusive and encumbered by legal complications.
I don't understand why this is something they can settle rather than something that gets them completely shut down.
From an evolutionary perspective, the thing that grows and is used is the thing that wins. If you take away the growth incentive you can’t compete by definition unless you change the rules of the game (worldwide government regulation?).
Yeah! And the reserve requirements were suspended during the pandemic for banks anyway. Tether is, at least on chain, completely open and auditable. You can trace every token, in ways the global banking system is opaque. A fine, some regs and compliance, and capital still flows.
They ship different things out of the box but can largely use the same exact software. They may update at different rates and thus have different versions of things. They are not entirely different operating system like Mac OS vs Windows.
Indeed. Unless that is misreported then I don't really think that's going to do Apple much good in the inevitable lawsuit.
Does the Nokia allow you to load mp3 files and play them? That would solve it for me.
The important difference with k8s from my experience is that from the very early days it modeled a common IPC for any future interfaces, even if TPR/CRD tools some time to hash out. This means that any extra service can be simply added and then used with same general approach as all other resources.

This means you get to build upon what you already have, instead of doing everything from scratch again because your new infrastructure-layer service needs to integrate with 5 different APIs that have slightly different structure.
By that sense, if qualia have no discernible impact on any part of the system, in what sense do they exist?

One can take this thought further. Red vs green light have real physical properties that affect one's subjective experience of them. For example different colors' physical properties change the way that they are perceived in low light conditions, the way they are perceived when placed next to other colors, etc. So at the end of the day even if hypothetically one person's qualia for red is swapped for green, you end up with a green that acts an awful lot like a red for all intents and purposes in the brain.

Edit: So my personal hunch is that qualia can't be meaningfully said to exist.
This is job creation porn. These engineers don't deserve any public money, let alone to prop up their $300K per year salaries.

Microsoft could get better engineers for cheaper. Including within the US. The problem is that this isn't about engineering. It's a scheme.
Facebook certainly has a good amount of blame but you also have to take some responsibility yourself if you keep logging on every day.
Looks like a lot of potential to build an API right in the database. Just wish the syntax was a bit more modern. Would be nice to have an easy way to just make it a rest server.
Right, I'm not saying (nor do I believe) that the spike-protein can self-replicate - but that's not the way that an alien substance can damage the body. Again, it's all fine and dandy to say what cannot happen, but you still haven't explained what could then be causing the blood clots.
I stopped using Facebook for over 3 years now and I have been happier. I am still connected to friends, family and community over whatsapp. WhatsApp is much better because you are only connected with your friends, groups and not the whole world.
When's the last time retail didn't have cameras, the 60s?
Why don't they quit then?
JSON was designed for machine readability, HCL was designed for human readability.

HCL requires a lot more code to parse and many more resources to keep in memory vs JSON. I think it completely makes sense to do it this way. K8s is the same. On the server it does everything in JSON. Your YAML gets converted prior to sending to K8s.
Everything has always been priced in by the market
What about folks who don't request a refund but don't use your product (as seems to be the issue that's getting discussed here)?
heh funny enough, wechat satisfies 1-3. So maybe someone just need to clone that.
They seem to just be focusing on the EU but I recall my friend saying the device works on Verizon networks here. You can use one of those parcel shipping services to act as a middleman and get the phone to you.

The most sustainable phone is the phone you have right now. So if that one isn’t dying anytime soon maybe it’s best to wait and see if Fairphone expands it’s operations by the time you finally need a new one (which is what I’m doing).
Burnt seeds show people used tobacco 12,000 years ago
:.)

There has to be an antigravitron joke in there somewhere.
One would assume so. Interesting to see the price rise in advance of the announcement. Maybe this punishment was seen as less severe than it could have been?
Maybe, but that's OK! Hubble's still plugging away doing good science. We'll get platforms better than JWST, but it'll be a while before we've got enough telescopes in orbit to fulfill every potential good avenue of research/observation.
> This is dysfunction. What can we do if we're not allowed to present facts and evidence because it might trigger people? We end up walking on eggshells while the crazies take over.

It's not that simple: you can't just label an entire political faction as crazy. The left also holds viewpoints that moderates think are absolutely bonkers (which specific viewpoints I can't even say without risking a flamewar on HN), but we've been taught to be respectful of other people's opinions.
Ah the bytecode generation via Reflection.Emit seems like a really powerful feature. Does it feel "brittle" to use, or is it expressive enough to aid writing more robust code (to a degree, I realise it's not possible to aliminate every problem)?

There's a weird (not in a bad way) elegance here that reminds me of lisp.
> We have barely started to understand long term implications of covid infection (...)

I fail to see the point of your remark, as it reads like a non-sequitur. I mean, the discussion was about the difference between those who listen to public health experts and the anti-intellectual covid denialists/anti-masks/anti-vaxers. Where do epistomological arguments lend any credence to anti-intellectual militants that try to counter science and public health safeguards with conspiracy theories?
To my understanding, you can write most (all?) of the job/config files in JSON if you wish. At my company, we have a ton of HCL files because in the beginning it was easier to hand-write them that way, but we're now getting to the point where we're going to be templating them and going to switch to JSON. In other words, I believe HCL is optional.
I can name four off the top of my head:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

https://www.palemoon.org/

https://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/icedragon-brow...
No regulator or government official wants to see Tether destroyed, so they have to act all shocked and surprised before moving on to the next Facebook Privacy scandal.