skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has an earlier piece whose point is that the WHO can never be accurate, because they always have to prioritize "sounding trustworthy" over accuracy, and random blogs don't.
I go through phases where I try to listen to either instrumental music, or something with vocals, or even brain.fm. Every time I always think it's going well, but then I just slowly phase out of bothering to turn the music on. Seems like the best default state for me is silence.
I take it they're separate accounts.
Nationwide's credit cards use Visa.
"The point of experts is they have thought about a field more and are better at making sound arguments in that field."

This is an excellent point. It is so good that I think it may serve as the definition of an expert: An expert is someone who is better at making sound arguments in that field. Sound arguments being what matters and not the person making the argument, just as the calculations matter more than the mathematician.
>I wouldn't call what you describe fragile. It sounds more like a typical learning experience. You did something, Emacs obeyed and then you who didn't like what you just did

That's the definition of fragile.

The famous "You're holding it wrong", even sounds benign compared to "it's just a learning experience".
Emacs Prelude [1] is an excellent starting point for creating your own emacs experience, without being too heavy-weight or opinionated (as in does not deviate too much from the emacs way of doing things).

If you are a fan of vim style modal editing, Spacemacs [2] and Doom [3] are two popular emacs "distributions".

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

[3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
That's one reason TV advertising for medication is strongly regulated in plenty of places.
It's funny you mention buying an old house to fix up, I was literally searching online this morning before reading this comment to do the very same thing. Overall I would say that your post, and the parent, resonates quite well with me. I work as a software developer (and love doing so!), but I need physical work to really feel satisfied. I've been a farm hand in the past, spending the evening hours feeding chickens/goats or putting up fence posts, it's a great way to burn excess energy after being inside in the mental quagmire that is modern work.

More recently it's been woodworking for me, having spent this last Sunday building a small coaster set that someone commissioned from me. Completing the order was the absolute highlight of my month, the physicality of the thing allows for knowing every intimate detail about it that feels somewhat similar to the early programs many of us wrote. With early and simple programs, the ones written purely by a single person without management or team input, the programmer is able to fully encapsulate their ideas of the thing at the time of creation. This includes the good parts, the corners cut, the ideas they had when crafting it, and even the memory of where they were in the world when they created it. The problem with a program is that this can get lost over time, a change here, an update there, a PR from someone random, a critique from a new team member, and after a couple years it's different, the feeling of the thing is somehow lost. Having spoken to many building construction laborers, who if you survey them will typically say they have a high level of job satisfaction from seeing their work stand before them, I think the constant churn in the work we see today contributes to the sense of burnout many of us have felt.

With a physical good though, the essence of the craftsmanship in an item remains as long as the item is intact. I can still look at an old shelf a made a decade ago and have it put me directly back into the scene I was in during the time. The slightly odd pattern on one corner an indication of losing some footing while using an orbital sander, a scuff mark from transporting it from it's original home to a new apartment, the physicality creates a true mental time capsule. I'd encourage anyone who is in this field, especially if they've never done so before, to try building real things or to work with their hands in some way. Even if you don't make money from the activity in a direct sense, the stress reduction and life satisfaction it creates can go a long way in avoiding burnout and misery.
Question from a non-American. Is it actually legal to "cancel" a service by having your credit card expire?

At least here, if there is a subscription with recurring fees active, you're liable for those fees, whether or not the provider is able to collect them at this moment.

This sounds like you risk building up a lot of debt and eventually having a collections agency come after you.
I’ve also seen plenty of new editors rise and fall in the past 20 years - Komodo, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom, etc.

Two of those editors are Mac-only, and only one editor is open source. I suspect if Sublime had become open (and cross-platform), it would be significant "player" in the editor wars. Atom has mostly died on the vine, thanks to VS Code. That doesn't negate any of the author's points about Emacs, but, aside from VS Code (and, I guess, Atom), there have been few efforts to create a performant[0] cross-platform, IDE-like editor.

[0] Insert comments about VS Code's performance here.
One of the big mistakes with the design of IMAP was that there wasn't a standard Out-Box where a client could rely on the IMAP server for sending the email. I'd have loved to see a world where mail clients only had to implement IMAP and nothing else.
I never understood this point - my debit card has been charged fraudulently couple of times, all it always took was a quick call to Barclays, 2 minutes on the phone with the agent and the charges were reversed and the card cancelled.

What exactly can a credit card do better than this?
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Ok where are all those people who had convinced me Microsoft has changed their hostile behavior? I mean how can they change when their dna is like this. Do people really think if some company like facebook/microsoft spends some dime they can whitewash their tarnished reputation? Can we buy reputation from money? Lets not create utopia for sophist corporation.

And their browser is not better than ungoogled chromium or vivaldi or firefox. Their browser despite being copy of opensource hasn't even published the source (I understand its BSD). Will we get edgium?
There are also startups such as Swiipe [1] that replace debit card payments by direct app-initiated account-to-account transfer.

This is enabled by the payment service provider APIs as per the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD 2) and the EU Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) infrastructure that make these payments free and "instant".

[1] https://swiipe.com/en/
Are you in Norway and formerly on Get? If so, I'd recommend getting your own router anyway - you just need one that allows you to specify the VLAN for the WAN, at least in my area they hide internet on VLAN 10. You still need their ONT as far as I know, but I can live with that.
Heya =)

Etsy is still on `react-redux` v5, because it's taking a long time to remove our `react-router-redux` dependency. Once we can move to `react-redux` v7 and can use the RTKQ hooks, I'll be working towards encouraging more RTK Query usage.

I know you _can_ use RTKQ without the hooks, but there's a lot to figure out in terms of establishing best practices and how to hook everything in with code splitting. I absolutely want to get there, because it solves a lot of problems for us.
She is threatening to collect her donations somewhere else. Brutal.
I'm not sure why is this outrageous. You had a contract with NYT so they deliver you the newspaper for a payment, contract which you didn't even try to cancel. This is how contracts work.
I agree although I would add that many of the creative jobs although technically challenging have useless or even destructive goals. Just look at the attention economy and the surveillance industry.
We try not to contemplate this fact by occupying our lives to the limit and by focusing on the "how" instead of the "why". We engineers are probably the ones who do this the most.

Funny by coincidence I bought this book just a few hours ago :)
> given it is well tolerated with low risk of side effects

That's not a given, that depends on the patient, the dose and a host of other factors. You may well end up harming someone significantly. You are in no position to proscribe any kind of medication to someone else unless you happen to be a licensed practitioner.
I grew up being told there were 9 planets, then I started being told there were actually 8 planets, now I'm being told again that there are really 9 planets. Wish the astronomers would just make up their minds.
I might change my strategy and finally call them at some point. It's just frustrating to be stuck in this situation. Thanks for the tip.
No, it’s not like at some point merchants said “oh yeah, let’s add 2% to account for credit card processing fees”.

The appeal of credit cards is higher volume - more purchases because people can put it on credit, it’s more convenient, etc. That’s why you’ll see even roadside fruit stands offer credit card payments.

Plus stores are in competition with each other (to varying degrees). Some will choose to absorb the entire 2% or a part of it since, in their mind, it’s a net positive trade off.

It’s like saying a 5% increase in property taxes are just passed through as a rent increase. It all depends on the market. The right answer is something between 0-100% is passed through.
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> A number of people (myself included) would perhaps pay less attention to ivermectin as in covid drug if crowd would really take it and do studies instead of just publicly mocking people who are trying to look into it.

I don't think i've ever mocked any ivermectine taker (at least not for taking a medecine that may help some of his problems), and most "vaxxed" didn't either. And i'm aware than not all unvaccinated people are anti-vax (my brother is waiting for the Valneva himself). But as long as people tell me "look at the data", i will send them the data from the least vaccinated country in europe, Bulgaria (i even have a quick link on my phone), and ask them to explain to me their mortality rates, and grin a little. I'm not really mocking them, i just like seeing people trying to justify themselves, i find it fascinating. Note that i like seeing this in the "i fucking love science" crowd as well (people really have trouble explaining the moon's crescents, it is really funny), but as this is a novelty, it have more potential.
Can't this argument be pretty easily countered with quantum mechanics and randomness induced by it? I'm no physicist but if you have a quantum random source of bits the computer and the person would not reach the same answer. It could then be argued consciousness arises from the quantum nature of the universe.
It did. In this case the EU interchange restriction of 0.3% has been revoked
Sup anon,

I'm from the same area and work in the same niche.

If you have passable React skills and any past experience, you should be employable now.

I wouldn't bother with the todo app. It's too generic on a resume to gauge anything relevant (since more tutorials are copy/paste and don't show any major problem solving).

Just start applying on Seek. There are tons of short term gigs that will take anyone. That's a great place to start.

Portfolios (i.e deployed personal projects) are huge here. This differs a lot from SV where they seem to have less bearing to get you in the door. The main point of note is that the projects need to be unique in some way.
Can you name the meal kit place ( asking only, because I was debating the heavily advertised one about fruits and veggies )?
I don't think that nuance is lost on anyone. But does it succeed? That's debatable. After all, in order to make the point that "making fun of native Americans is bad", the show still ends up making fun of native Americans. Making fun of native Americans might be "bad," but hey it's hilarious, just another one of Jerry's silly hijinks, so how bad could it really be?

Additionally Winona comes off as an oversensitive snowflake when she accuses Jerry of lowkey calling her an "Indian giver." In other words, maybe Jerry's a little racist, and that's wrong and silly, but being sensitive about it is equally wrong and silly, is the message. Fortunately Winona breaks it off and the show can go back to forgetting Native Americans exist as anything but a foil to Jerry's gang.

Furthermore, because real-life Jerry is so "brave" as to skewer character-Jerry's racism, real-life Jerry gets to congratulate himself for being woke.

To sum up, Jerry Seinfeld scores points for himself at the expense of native Americans, is one way to interpret what happened.

Seinfeld himself has conceded that the episode didn't age well, so whether or not you agree with parent poster, it's not like he's really being so "odd" and out-there in his reasoning.

(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seinfeld-offensive_n_59d8d036...)
As long as Apple can get away with the way they treat iOS, I don't think Microsoft will be in any trouble. Android has fewer issues around the browser engine, but with Google Chrome handling clicks to URLs inside apps instead of opening the default browser, I don't think Microsoft is any worse than Android either.

I hope someone will take action against all these three companies but I don't think the laws have been written to deal with this.
> Honestly, I don't know why so many people, especially developers still use Windows.

A combination of comfort in familiarity and lack of viable alternatives. Not everyone has the money to buy an expensive Mac. With Linux, you potentially end up working for the OS rather than the OS working for you, no matter how far Linux on the desktop has come. See the latest video from Linus Tech Tips on Linux, for example.
Have you ever read your contracts? Maybe it would be time to do so now, before you run into troubles with collectors.
This makes sense if the contract indeed has a minimum commitment that hasn't been reached.

But if the contract has no minimum term (or it has since passed) and you've made a reasonable effort to attempt to cancel with no success, it'll now be on them to recover the money through legal means which would require them to explain to the court why your cancellation attempt was ignored, demonstrating their bad faith in the process. That's not something they want to do.
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> Was that controlled for?

Very little can be controlled for in studies like this. There are just too many factors to slice on, and before long you're just reading into noise.
Aside from the illustrations Brady shows during the video, he also commonly has physical demonstrations. And the videos are pretty short and content-filled.

I think the channel is well worth subscribing to and watching in full, the transcripts are useful to come back to afterwards, but it’s not 30 seconds of content being stretched out to 15mn so all the ads can fit in.
You don't have to have running shoes to be able to run. I haven't owned a credit card for 15 years and my credit score is just fine.
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It is time to stop structuring your code as beginners framework tutorials once taught you.
I was under the assumption that BLE chips have regular BL support as well as a fallback for when you actually want to use the thing for something productive. Is that not the case or are most phone manufacturers just lying while putting two chips on devices?

Like if a chip supports Bluetooth 5.1 that should include both, no?
That's amazing. Do you know since when? I've been doing Python development for a while.
Sometimes I wonder what little things differ between countries. But this is new to me. Is it true that you find that hold time to be annoying/out of place in the UK? I once was on hold with an insurance company for ten hours... I began to wonder if 1. something happened that got me stuck in the queue, or 2. if they even had a single person working the lines.
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No, it's true in the UK.

I had this issue, and had to get a credit card and buy stuff on it for a year... basically without using credit you may not have a credit rating.

I always lose my cards and have to get them replaced, so have been back on just a debit card for a few years now.
Reading 30 studies certainly seems to be a bad way to learn anything unless you're conducting a meta-analysis of them. For one thing, you'd get tired. But just shoving 30 pieces of information into your head and forgetting some of them doesn't help you find out which of them were correct.
I don't think 3d protects you in this case of recurring charges.
Unix tools should do something well in CLI, and be transparent enough to deconstruct the command into series of commands if it is a complex process. Piping is not always practical (see make).

Your definition of a unix tool is a strange one.
It's kind of a problem with such huge companies. The bit of MS that is funding VS Code and other open source dev-tooling has managed to win back a fair amount of good-will through their work.

But that doesn't automatically mean that the bit of MS that is dealing with Edge, or Windows, or Teams, is also as virtuous. In fact, they seem purely driven by business analysts who don't actually care about the product, just the metrics. If they did care, you wouldn't get nagged about Teams every time you booted up the computer, and you wouldn't see them trying so hard to keep Edge as the default browser.
Same here, it's unnecessary overhead.
This is the reason humans live long enough to be grandparents.
> Truth, Freedom, Love

Funny, your words above this speak contrary to this. Where is your Love for people who can't be treated because hospitals are overwhelmed? There is strong suspicion that due to this covid caused equal amount of deaths as a nasty side effect (undiagnosed heart attacks, strokes, cancers, hugely delayed surgeries etc.)

There ain't no Truth in your words, simple scientific fact.

And as for Freedom, its just about you and likeminded people. You clearly don't care about containing virus and thus giving freedom to everybody. Well the rest of us beg to differ.
The specific message is indeed a photoshop, but the film was broadly pro-Mujaheddin as it was anti-Soviet.

As was The Living Daylights, in which the Mujaheddin led by an Oxford-educated Afghan help James Bond destroy a rogue Soviet drug-running operation.
No, it's much more basic than that. The system launches a URL starting with microsoft-edge: and uses the protocol handling system to open that in the Edge browser.
Is there a way to disable the searchbar from accessing the internet entirely?
Yeah, when an economy is losing 800K jobs per month inflation is usually not a problem, deflation is. In 2009 things went negative:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

Inflation is usually sign that the economy is running too hot. I think a lot of folks would say that's a 'nice problem' to have.
> MS’s great work with VS Code

Yeah, there are effectively two Microsofts. The dev/tooling MS is awesome. VS Code is great, .NET is unsexy but very solid, their recent efforts on Python are commendable, I've also heard good things about Azure.

The Windows/Office world, is, well...

One of the saddest things I've ever seen is how they decided to put ads on the Solitaire app. Is the massive UX degradation such a move entails really worth the extra ad revenue? For real? They don't give a damn, they've never given a damn, and now they're even stopped pretending.
> It is the most expensive building, however

It might have been topped by "the Great Mosque" (~100 billion USD): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_al-Haram
> This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of personality politics and the increasingly presidential style of leadership in the UK. A person's ideas are what's important, and personality politics distracts people from the ideas in favour of what's effectively celebrity gossip.

That's why Johnson is doing it, and it's hugely effective.
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The drug policy is well known, but the speed traps is new and amusing. It reminds me of the horn activated red lights in India. Genius idea.
Yes, they are actually working together a lot. There is PCI (Payment Card Industry) and then there is EMV. There is probably more but the two have been important from my point of view.

The main motivation for this is to make payment technology transparent to the user (as in use any card anywhere, expect similar behavior, etc.) A lot of this is standardized so much that it is virtually the same for both.

And I know this, because it was my job to implement these standards. I calculated some 17 thousand pages of specifications in various forms.

Both Visa and Mastercard gain a lot form this because it is not a zero-sum game. Because of this cooperation people have been steadily increasing their use of credit card payments and this I think created a lot more revenue than they could have ever created for themselves by winning a cutthroat competition.
You should honestly just tell your credit card about this situation and if they are tier 1 (Chase, Amex, etc.) they will likely deny the charge on your behalf if you can show proof that you tried to cancel but weren't able to.

People can say they have you in whatever financial agreement, but if the processor has evidence you are NOT trying to pay it, they can at least stop it from going on their rails (and your card)
> As long as Apple can get away with the way they treat iOS, I don't think Microsoft will be in any trouble.

Would "but Apple is doing worse" really work as a valid defense in court? Wouldn't it just provoke another litigation against Apple (if the court decided smartphones should be treated in the same way as personal computers)?
It's pretty expensive to have an Amex card, I had one for a bit, but ended up not really using it so the £ they wanted seemed like a rip-off in the end.
That only applies to the US.
No, you are putting people in mortal danger. Do not try to "no you" this. You, specifically, are putting people at risk of actually dying. You are being massively reckless, and acting extremely un-christian since you are spreading lies about it.
Well a simple email would be too easy to forge. But I'm sure its not hard to setup something I "your account" page.
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You actually get much better payment protection from a debit card than people are generally aware of. In the UK, the difference between a debit card and credit card is actually not very big due to legal protections (although you might have an easier time claiming off your credit card).
I don't know in Uk or USA, but in the rest of europe there is no difference at all in protection against fraudulent charges between a credit and a debit card.
In the way that some libraries have been updated to be ESM-only, so if you follow a tutorial to-the-letter and then try to require() that library it'll fail with a cryptic error message (at least for new users).
Quite a few streets in Istanbul are too narrow for cars. No matter how "rich" you are, you'll have to exit the car and walk like the rest of us 'plebes'
No true Scotsman would argue with you that Chick Christians are full of bad ideas that other Christians would find repugnant.
This is not true in my experience. Movie fanatics watch everything in full, other people turn stuff off.
Yeah, I've had 2 layers of deception there. You think it might be those 2-3 lines from the popular StackOverflow answer, but after hunting a bug for a while I realized that it was url-encoding that space in the path name and saying "directory doesn't exist" when in the console it was obviously correct.

Drove me crazy until I realized in the full path there was, early in the path, a single "%20" and my JS senses told me it doesn't make sense for spaces to be url-encoded in paths.