skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 3 ways to cancel an O2 contract - (1) Online intimation + phone call, (2) Letter or (3) Fax [0]. Most routers (like Fritzbox) come with a fax function which you send an online fax [1]. O2 charges a maximum of 0.14 cents per fax page or free based on your DSL plan. Alternatively, you can also send a physical letter online (0.70 cents) [2].

Your comment below says that there is no receipt for confirmation. O2 provides a default PDF form on their website which to fill for termination. The letter explicitly states that "o2 should send you a written confirmation of cancellation". It is illegal for O2 to be in receipt of a letter and not send a confirmation. I am sorry if that happened to you!

Don't get me wrong - the auto-renewal of contract practices in Germany are predatory for the consumers. Recently, there has been a change in law that forces providers to extend contracts by 1 month instead of 1 or 2 years.

[0] https://www.o2online.de/service/kuendigung/

[1] https://en.avm.de/service/knowledge-base/dok/FRITZ-Box-7490/...

[2] https://www.deutschepost.de/de/e/epost.html

[3] https://static2.o9.de/resource/blob/498264/12cd6ca6ee17a02b9...
It sounds like you're using the React Hello World example to respond to the comparison to Firefox. They're separate points which stand on their own.

With respect to the package size issue, the 500MB-to-2MB observation does not bode well for the claim of irreducibility.
That's illegal in Europe. You have to be able to cancel via the same means as you signed up. So if you can signup online then you must be able to cancel online.
What made me switch to VS Code (after using Emacs for 30+ years) was that I got tired of just how much of an easter egg hunt Emacs is for me now.

Setting up Emacs reasonably for Go development just isn't even close to being straightforward. And with Go, go tooling and Emacs continually being changed, any setup that works will eventually stop working and you have to try to figure out how to rewrite your configuration. This happens often enough that even someone like me, who really, really didn't want to ditch emacs, eventually may do so.

I appreciate all the work that has gone into Emacs, but the feeling I get is that the project lacks enough active developers and/or the focus misses the mark. I see version numbers going up - I don't see visible improvement.

The goalposts moved. They are farther afield. Expectations of what an environment has to offer have gone up. If a decent developer experience isn't an understood priority, then Emacs isn't going to be very attractive for new developers. And it may have problems both attracting new users and developers and retaining new developers.

(That being said: VS Code is apparently going through a rough patch where things have gotten really buggy if you use it for Go development. So it isn't like VS Code is a magic bullet)
> being sleep deprived for months does not make you bipolar maybe, but depression can and does happen

It shaves off 10 to 20 IQ points in me when I'm on a bad streak. I have failed FAANG interviews because of bad sleep. I still probably would've failed them, but it'd have been much closer. I literally remember one coding interview where I was thinking "if I just had enough sleep, I'd have a solid shot" (the other coding interview was so easy I could even do it in my half-ragged sleep-deprived state).
The Burnout Society is probably one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read. I tried to crystalise its essence as well [1], in a chapter-structure way.

The book talks about many things that were on the edge of my eyes. I knew them, yet I hadn't realised they were there; that they were a thing. I hadn't realised it was us who introduced them. This is the definition of Castoriadis' imaginary [2][3]. I'd recommend The Burnout Society to everyone yet I hesitate because it challenges very foundational ideas, in an unpopular way as well.

Maybe the book's two things that struck out to me the most are:

* We strive for achievement so much that we tire ourselves to depression

* Burnout and depression are intrinsically connected

And the question that I ask myself after having read the book is: How can we achieve things with no burnout or ego-driven mindset?

[1] https://nutcroft.com/blog/book-the-burnout-society-by-byung-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)

[3] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/imaginary-institution-society
How similar to Ivermectin is the new Pfizer covid drug?
Probably no less than 90 days in advance too.
I love it when the power giants start smashing each other instead of the little guy, for once.

No doubt they’ll work out a deal where the consumer pays more.
Keys to Developing Ethical AI
This makes sense, and it's something we will consider over the next few months.
Google Will Collapse (2017)
Amazon will stop accepting payments from UK-registered Visa credit cards
> The differential engine was successfully built as a museum project

…with modern CNCs. It was simply not feasible at the time to build the parts required with enough precision, that’s what I meant by “no impact”, no one built on it because by the time we had the tools to build it, the tools where better than the thing itself.

As for the “along the way” argument, for me that’s a non-starter. We could use the same argument to justify investing in scams. “Cold fusion might not be possible, but think of what could we discover on our way there!”
Congratulations! Looks amazing and the explanation on what it does and how it does makes me keen to try it.

As a solo developer, I am creating an app for a customer with the typical JS ecosystem. So, my questions is:

Could an application created with Budibase be put in front of final customers? With authentication/authorization?
As is never highlighted, especially in media, is that it's relative risk reduction. Going by their study (and simplifying for argument's sake), there were 10k strokes out of 365k subjects, so <3% risk. A 30% risk reduction means now you're at 2% risk, so figure out whether that's worth adding coffee and tea for.
Directly from the article:

> "Sometimes these people even have a specific theory for why elites are covering up ivermectin, like that pharma companies want you to use more expensive patented drugs instead. This theory is extremely plausible. Pharma companies are always trying to convince people to use expensive patented drugs instead of equally good generic alternatives. Ivermectin believers probably heard about this from the many, many good articles by responsible news outlets, discussing the many, many times pharma companies have tried to trick people into using more expensive patented medications. Like this ACSH article about Nexium. Or my article on esketamine. Given that dozens of studies said a drug worked, and elites continued to deny it worked, and there are well-known times where elites lie about drugs in order to make money, it was an incredibly reasonable inference that this was one of those times.

> If you have a lot of experience with pharma, you know who lies and who doesn’t, and you know what lies they’re willing to tell and which ones they shrink back from. As far as I know, no reputable scientist has ever come out and said ‘esketamine definitely works better than regular ketamine’. The regulatory system just heavily implied it.

> I claim that with ivermectin, even the people who don’t usually lie were saying it was ineffective, and they were saying it more directly and decisively than liars usually do. But most people can’t translate Pharma → English fluently enough to know where the space of “things people routinely lie about and nobody worries about it too much” ends. So they incredibly reasonably assume anything could be a lie. And if you don’t know which statements about pharmaceuticals are lies, “the one that has dozens of studies contradicting it” is a pretty good heuristic!"
Email Is an Information Silo
Are you sure this isn't spam? I've received the email. It looks very suspicious to me...
I was talking about its utility, not value. The whole point of a currency is being useful, not in being valuable.
I've just found another link that isn't paywalled: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-stop...

This says that only Visa credit cards will be blocked, not Visa debit cards.

I have a speculative guess that it might not just be about the merchant cost... It does seem that Visa offers more customer protection than Mastercard from what I can tell, so perhaps too many customers have got Visa involved for refunds because of the many dubious Amazon marketplace sellers listing fake or substandard products.
>When they invented antibiotics, people began predicting "the end of disease." Fast forward a few decades and we have the rise of scary antibiotic-resistant infections.

I think this is an extremely jaded take, resulting from growing up in a post-antibiotics society. The risk factor for those "scary antibiotic-resistant infections" is still an order of magnitude less than the class of diseases antibiotics almost totally eliminated. In the 30 years following penicillin's discovery, deaths from bacterial infection dropped from accounting for over 22% of all deaths to just 6% [1] (MRSA deaths, by comparison, currently represent less than half a percent). "End of disease" may be hyperbole, but between antibiotics and vaccines, infectious diseases were almost totally knocked off the leading causes of death.

The only reason why we even have antibiotic resistant bacteria is because they keep getting prescribed, because they're so damn useful. "Medical stuff" does, in fact, work like that, to some extent.

[1] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8889467/Gottfrie...
I believe this doesn't work with debit cards, which are the norm in Europe.

Still though, it's a weird system. Instead of giving someone just enough permissions to spend my money, I give them permissions to spend all of it, with some other party reimbursing me if that goes awry (and I notice).
You shouldn't say this to people like it's some obvious truth. There are many cases in which this action will land you in trouble due to it not being a legally valid termination of the contract (which of course may be different by country -- it's very common that cancelling requires an actual message to the other party).

One specific example is if your contract has a termination period, which is pretty common, at least in my part of Europe. If you simply stop paying, you are denying the other party N months of revenue (your cancellation period) that you are contractually obliged to pay. You are now defaulting on your payments and will likely pay additional fees.
Not to be brazen, but if your argument could be used to justify any investment, I’m not sure it’s a good argument.
"You don't need to wear masks" was bad advice from well-meaning people who should've known better. The researchers who did know better couldn't push past deeply-entrenched anti-miasma attitudes quickly enough.

"Use social distancing and isolation to avoid COVID and get vaccinated as quickly as possible" is good advice from well-meaning people who do know better. Sorry it's unpleasant, but if the USA behaved rationally, there wouldn't be 750K+ dead today.

Sweden readily admits that its approach was a terrible mistake. It's just not as embarrassingly bad as other countries, particularly ones that, with sensible leaders, should have done much better (UK, USA).
The Telegraph have stopped doing it. I think they have now realised it's counter-productive. Hopefully, others will follow.

Incidentally, I also think it's now common knowledge that unsubscribing will, in most case, initiate a lower price offer.
I had a similar feeling when we recently started watching The Office (US version) with my girlfriend. Lots of cringy sexist jokes in the beginning. I know they're made by the "bad" guys, and are a sign of their "badness", not something celebrated, but it's still pretty cringy. We're still binging it though, it wasn't a deal breaker.
Not just Portugal, this is a European thing but apparently Germany hasn't implemented it yet and will do so starting next year.

That's the weird thing with some European "laws", they give countries 1 or 2 years to implement it and some countries abuse that to go and implement it on the very last day.
This was from March about Brexit-related interchange rates on Visa https://news.sky.com/story/visa-to-hike-interchange-fees-for...
I don't think they pay most construction engineers enough to purchase even one of the cheaper condos in that building.
Avoiding Premature Software Abstractions
Sure...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250789

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140325

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140176

and so on.
Ha, I just tried jpeg.to and mp4.to, and nadermx has also "made" these sites. Edit: just noticed these links are there on the top row of each site...

I remember reading an article about how to make money online: find the available domain first, and then make the service. IIRC the guy's example was a website that provides sticker labels for teachers or so.
"But there is a pretty easy explanation for why people are burned out."

You name one reason. And it's a true reason but there are many others. Your explanation doesn't cover them all.

There are only two reason people get burned out: long periods of mental or physical stress. A dancer can burnout when asking too much of the body. A fit person can burnout when the lie of an affair is going on for too long. And of course your explanation is also a very valid one.

A burnout is 100% physical (the body is exhausted), but the cause can be mental or physical (or both).

Unfortunately I have experience with being burned-out. So I can give my best advice to others who are struggling with a burnout: the key to recovery is acceptance. A burnout is potentially life threatening so you really need to step on the brakes and accept that you can't go on like you do. Also accept that it might take at least a year to fully recover. And accept that you will experience very strange thoughts and feelings because everything in your body is messed up. If you don't accept that you are burned-out you will really struggle to get better. Get help!
We've been a bit apprehensive about using `as` in the codebase in general, but I hear you on that instance not being as big of a deal.

Regarding RTK Query, we have used it, a little! I'm going to pass this thread along to the teammate of mine (@sangster) who's been really excited about using RTK Query more — he might have some thoughts to share.
It's not a token, but similar: Europe has Direct Debit mandates, which you give to the biller and they can be revoked.

https://gocardless.com/guides/sepa/mandates/
> God, I never realized how passionately I could hate a company like this.

May it burn in hell huh xD sorry but this is so relatable and cracks me up badddd
Any idea why Amex would be so popular in London?

I'd never even consider an Amex card due to my perception of it being something that many places won't even accept.
Why wouldn't it be genuine? If you hacked Amazon's email system to send a mass email to customers, why send that?

It's clearly some sort of negotiation ploy over fees.
This is an example I also find helpful when dealing with people who insist that "there are only two genders" ("because science"). Even species is a leaky abstraction, let alone sex, gender and sexual attraction. You can argue for a strict gender binary normatively (and we can disagree on that), but even if you try to conflate gender and sex it's still scientifically illiterate to insist that there is a strict binary (although for sex at least humans are bimodal).

Leaky abstractions can still be useful but you have to be aware that they're just abstractions and still understand that reality is messy and complicated or you'll end up legislating the value pi.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250582
> It seems that Mastercard is more widespread among "hot" banking startups, ie I can create virtual debit Mastercards on Revolut and Monzo

They were definitely first in this space but Revolut has issued Visa's (in some cases) for a while now, and for instance Wise has recently switched from MasterCard to Visa entirely.
That's weird because they're moving their debit cards from Visa to Mastercard
It is easy to find:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/03/one-year-pan...

"APA’s survey of U.S. adults, conducted in late February 2021 by The Harris Poll, shows that a majority of adults (61%) experienced undesired weight changes (weight gain or loss) since the pandemic started, with 42% reporting they gained more weight than they intended. Of those, they gained an average of 29 pounds (the median amount gained was 15 pounds) and 10% said they gained more than 50 pounds, the poll found."
Balls on the table power move from Amazon right there
I think you left out a few steps who's getting their fat cut (issuer of the card, aquirer, merchang provider etc) but not sure how it exactly goes down.
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Ziggo is similar, very shitty customer service, and you have to talk to an aggressive sales person to be allowed to cancel. The moment fiber was delivered to my area I cancelled them and just hung up on the sales guy lying to me about how their speed was higher (it definitely isn't) than fiber.
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No it's not. What you are saying is everything is biased by money, therefore I can't trust anyone. What people are telling you is that you don't really understand the bias, not that the bias doesn't exist.
NPM should support Web Authentication API (e.g. security keys, touch ID, etc.) for 2-factor authentication.
Actually, it's not just paranoia, also convenience. Qubes allows very convenient separation of different parts of your digital life, like personal files/apps from working ones and from random internet surfing. Also, IMHO it's more convenient to copy-paste passwords without an actual password manager. More details: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15
I use my credit card for most stuff.
1)I get reward points
2)I get better consumer protection.
Most importantly, Germany has the Verbraucherzentralen which have the right to sue on behalf of (all) consumers.

Many countries that don't have that will have consumer protection laws that simply get ignored, because simply ignoring them works for the company.
> It is only a fallacy when you are an expert as well...

This is wrong to the point where you really might want to take a deep breath. The point of experts is they have thought about a field more and are better at making sound arguments in that field. "Most scientists/doctors believe..." is literally, exactly and unambiguously a fallacious argument. The only thing that matters is why they would believe that.

And if that why is "statistical significance", I'm friends with enough doctors to know I'm better at interpreting stats than they are. If the answer they go to is parasitic worms then yeah, that is why they are experts and I'm not. It is a compelling argument.

I stand by my comments and disagree that they make the point you want them to. The 1st isn't even about medical opinion if you read it closely, it is scepticism of politics.
GDBFrontend v0.9.2-beta is released and needs testing
Would I be correct in guessing that you have not faced such a situation yourself?

My motivation for asking -- What you wrote is advice inexperienced people commonly give. It's nothing that those facing the challenge would not already know.

Having faced the challenge, I see several flaws / loose ends in your advice, and would recommend you or anyone reading the same to be watch out, and do your best to learn from the experiences of people who have gone through.

Keep in mind that if one is not facing the challenge, it need not be because of some special skill or wisdom they may have, but just because of chance, and vice versa.
Sounds like a juicy class action.
The major reason why we have antibiotic resistant bacteria is because we use literal tons of the stuff for meat production and too many countries have too lax controls for antibiotic use in humans, which means they are taken for things were they don't help, or are not necessary, and are taken in the wrong dosage and for the wrong duration.
> It takes a certain kind of maturity to ship something so unapologetically utilitarian

This reminds me of a quote I’ve seen a few times: “When I was younger I thought alcohol was the adult drink. When I got older I realized water was the adult drink all along”
That's better, agreed. But can I e.g. limit payment amounts on these?

On Direct Debits in the UK, the merchant just charges me whatever. This is for things like utilities and phone bills, so I don't have major trust issues, but still it irks me.
I do feel this is something that should be made illegal. In many countries it is a breach of your employment contract to diverge your pay, unionise, etc. However it is ok for employers to share data with each other, even if they don't have a business relationship other than keeping your wage down. It makes it hard to negotiate pay rises, change jobs, and get a fair market price for your wage. Doesn't feel fair to me.
They aren't locked out yet and presumably this is a tactic to get Visa to lower their fees.
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> you must have talent

Talent is way overrated. Talent is good for 1%, the rest is training to upgrade your skills. Of course, if you never try, failure is 100% guaranteed.

BTW, I know some very successful people who aren't that smart. Being smart just means you learn faster. Not being smart doesn't mean you can't learn skills that are in demand.
so, this is not nearly as dramatic, but I was at a busy hackerspace (新车间) swapping out the brains of an electric doorbell to replace the chime with an arduino sound trigger - crossed a wire while plugged into mains and the the whole 220v side of the doorbell explodes in sparks while a dozen people on their laptops are plugged into the same surge protector. No harm done, mea culpa. A more experienced hacker comes over with a huge bulky 1:1 transformer for isolating circuits and says “if you’re going to hack on mains, plug into this”

after some inspection of the burned circuitboard, I realized all the parts I need are on the undamaged 5V side of the board, so it worked fine on USB power anyway, but I was grateful for that hackerspace spirit of “that was stupid, here’s the tool you’re supposed to use“
I have John Lewis credit card , which is essentially branded HSBC, and it is Mastercard.
The critics are all Lucene developers or deeply invested in that. The criticism boils down to well "Simply just know Lucene and handle the million lines of code by writing plugins and configurations to get the same result as OP", except with worse performance.
Amazon not accepting VISA credit cards issued in UK
In general I write an e-mail saying "please don't make us waste more time by requiring me to send a letter and please revoke my current subscription".

Works somewhat
Exactly, if we only used it when there was a chance of it being effective that would be that, but instead your average cow is a walking antibiotic laboratory.
> what's not to like?

Well, the predatory business model, for one.
The reason your credit card company can offer you "better consumer protection" and other benefits is because they count on a percentage of people not paying off their debt in time (and thus making more money out of them).

Also, I personally wouldn't want "better consumer protection" to be mediated by a private company. That should just be the default.