skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blogger didn't produce any new data.

I was never an ivermectin proponent — although I thought the "horse dewormer" rhetoric was self-defeating, because it's obviously and well-known to be also a human dewormer (amongst other parasites), and the "horse" part just seemed to be played up to make ivermectin supporters look stupid — but this article is indeed the first one I've seen to make the parasite-COVID-comorbidity argument. It's not, in fact, the first time that argument has been made... But it seems like the first time that link was made was within the last month, as the blog post links to the following Twitter thread from a medical researcher: https://twitter.com/AviBittMD/status/1456376484180922368

It's not ridiculous to me that this blog post would be someone's first encounter with that argument, considering how recent the link is.

I have a little bit of experience with reading lots of research papers about COVID safety measures, and coming to the opposite conclusion of medical experts: in early 2020 I read lots of papers on masks, and tried to convince most of my family to mask up even when the CDC said that masks didn't work. I happened to be right, and to my parents, I now look like a smart and forward-thinking, science-driven person. But that's only because I was right! I could see someone doing the same with the ivermectin studies, and while it appears that they were wrong, I don't think it deserves dismissal or derision — especially when it comes from someone willing to change their mind and admit they were wrong when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary.
You still owe them the money technically.
Nope. The left heavily relies on government to deliver equality.

Catholicism argues for allegiance to Christ through the Holy Roman Church not some earthly authority. It’s pretty clear that’s taken to heart when you look at the system that is the Catholic Church. I mean the pope has his own country?

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"

Catholicism is all about “working with what you have”. Abide by the earthly rules of your government, but your obligation to god is separate.
I also subscriber to (1), and I agree that conditions are generally improving for most people. I think some of the pushback against Pinker is that his message is used as a justification to do no more. There's a reason that the worst of the right love to promote him.
you can hand me your credit card if it helps you no problem
Well that's moving the goal post.

Fact is tons of people use lots of driver assistance.
>As long as Apple can get away with the way they treat iOS, I don't think Microsoft will be in any trouble

The issue wasn't what they did, it was what they did in combination with their monopoly of the desktop market.

Apple gets away with what they want to do because they're a minority player in both the desktop and smartphone markets. It will be interesting to see how this changes with Epic's attempt in court with redefine the market to a fraction of the market.
Fake news, unvacinated people pose no inherent dangers.

A person with the sars-cov-2 contagion spreads the virus.

Unfortunately both vacinated and unvacinated people are at risk of contracting & spreading sars-cov-2, we have a staggering number of break through cases, even in highly vacinated areas.

I am not a mortal danger to myself or anyone becuase I dont have sars-cov-2. this is the 5th endemic Corona virus.

I AM healthy and strong.

not sick, not unclean, not unhygenic, not uncaring, not part of the untouchable caste, I will not obey.

people with the virus spread the virus, not any arbitrary list that the government keeps on injection status or religion.
I’ve been using Emacs for Go dev for years and have barely touched my Go-related config. It’s vanilla lsp-mode with some hooks like format-on-save.

It was more fiddly when I started because gopls was new, but now it’s just rock solid (and fast).
As author of Relevant Search and contriburor of AI powered search I endorse this :)

Relevance is really subjective, domain specific, requires intense amount of measurement and testing and many different ranking signals. Lucene is a toolbox for crafting many of these signals.
A doctor isn't a medical scientist, he's a kind of very self-confident mechanic.
>Why pick McKinley's assassination as your evidence, and not, say, the Spanish-American War?

Another excellent example. Thanks!

>And one person (however important) getting shot isn't what most of us think of when you say "people die".

People die is general usage while I was providing a US example.

>And why pick that as the most recent example, instead of, say, the invasion of Iraq?

Interesting? I actually dont believe I've seen the news blamed for that invasion. Typically the reasoning is economic. I wish to know more!
> Rock, rock, rock solid no matter what I through at it.

This is definitely not my experience. I regularly see emacs lock up indefinitely when asked to handle large buffers, especially when also using TRAMP. Even when it doesn't lock up indefinitely, it can easily stall for minutes(!) when doing something like moving point to the end of a large minified JS file (C-E).

There are many reasons to love Emacs, and I use it as my main development OS almost, but stability and performance are not among those reasons.

Note: mostly used it in console mode on Linux (Ubuntu WSL 2).
Danes have to pay a fee in order to get payment cards? I thought consumer protection was big there.
You cant ding a credit rating unless you have a users SSN, which the NYT almost certainly does not.
I know this is a thing in the US, but in Norway where I am from it doesn’t matter. Nobody gets a credit card here improve credit rating. I doubt people do they in most of Europe.

When somebody does a credit check on you they don’t get a score, only a remark on whether that person has done any negative with respect to their credit worthiness. Thus there is really only the negatives which count.
Of course. I just opened up a contract I signed with a legal firm. It says lack of payment ends the contract.

Why can't everything be simple and easy? Maybe somebody needs to pass a law to make it so.
In my naivety, I've always thought of computers as the most free platform (despite being proprietary) you can get your hands on (I grew up with 7).

Unlike Android and iOS, you have Administrator access, the ability to tamper with low-level system configuration, customise the taskbar, and a boatload of other things. I'd spend hours just sat at the computer tinkering with passwords, how things looked, etc.

It's quite disheartening to see Microsoft restricting this once-semi-free platform I genuinely enjoyed using. Computers of 2010, 2006 etc. were very entertaining to customise and play around with, and part of me wants to go back to that era.

The Microsoft of 2010 and under, despite having a very different stance on Linux vs. today[0], was a lot better in many ways. There was a lot less unnerving surveillance back then. Cortana didn't exist. They tried their hand at things like Windows Live (a success), Live Mesh (bit of a flop IIRC), cloud storage, etc. but they felt more like additions to the operating system rather than some deeply-engrained spyware you can't quite get rid of.

Anyway, back on topic: speaking of Microsoft Edge, it always reinstalls itself whenever Windows updates. I use Windows less and less these days, as forced software on my own hardware feels unethical and immoral.

[0]: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/why-...
This is going to the heart of the problem: Youtube has replaced TV, and what people see on TV they tend believe to be real, and even if they don't believe that at the moment they see it they may well remember it as fact later on.

I think youtube is great for showing people DIY stuff, for home videos and so on, but it has clearly allowed itself to be hijacked as a platform for politics and it was/is ill prepared for the attempt at weaponizing the immense audience that it commands.
Gmail will often try to prompt you to use Chrome _on iOS_. It's extremely agressive and just like... why......
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No. You cant do anything to someones credit unless you have their SSN. Damn good thing thats the case also, if you happen to be named Jane Doe or Bob Smith.
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A recently passed German law requires (among other changes) an online cancel button, however companies don't have to implement it until July 2022 unfortunately.

https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...
Elon Musk is an ugly antisemite and shall prove it?
OS works for you > you work for the OS > OS works you
Ironically, an EC card these days is just a MasterCard. They used to be called EC (EuroCheque) card, but rebranded in 2007 when MasterCard was ousted from the system. MC kept the brand rights and didn't do anything with them for a decade. Meanwhile people kept using the old name. Now, however, MC started using the brand for some debit MasterCards, which can lead to great confusion by unsuspecting merchants.

That said, for many shops it was either girocard and cash or just cash only. Merchants just weren't willing to eat the fees associated with other card schemes.

Things have changed, though. The EU has capped the interchange fees of four party debit and credit cards to 0.2% and 0.3% respectively and now most shops tend to accept MasterCard and Visa as well.
Edit: I probably wrote this comment to aggresively, which is ironic given that that is what I am arguing against. My apologies.

When you see someone you disagree with convinced by an argument, I think that should be an occasion for celebration and joy! People changing their minds to what you believe to be true is the only way to get change. It needs to be encouraged and people who manage to do this need recognition.

Changing your mind in polarized situations is hard! People who manage it did something impressive. Heck, even people who are willing to listen to the other side deserve recognition.

You saw someone who changed their mind, and you chastised them for not having changed their mind earlier, and for having been wrong before. That is rather counter-productive. Instead, be happy with the conversion. If you want more interaction, ask them why they believed the other thing before. Less importantly, ask them what changed their mind.
It also doesn't mean that the work they're doing with VSCode is "virtuous".

It's generally foolish to expect multinational corporations to act as if they are motivated by virtue - the incentive structure is just not set up for that.
We use a card that gives generic points instead of airline miles on each dollar spent and those points pay for our vacation lodging each year.
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If there was such a tool, you wouldn't be able to use it for much because you'd have to preregister all your searches.
It should have been stipulated that unsubscribing should be offered immediately after the option to subscribe.
The email I just received from Amazon states Visa's fees as the reason. I don't know what the relative !market shares are, but Visa credit cards are incredibly common here. I'd say more than half the credit cards I've ever had have been visa.
... and if we want to get even pickier (again at least here in Italy) a Law firm will likely send you not (still by certified mail with receipt) a "normal" letter (i.e. one or more sheets of paper inside an envelope) but rather a "piego" (literally "fold") i.e. the sheets of papers folded in three, with the address (and the stamp) written on the back.

The rationale is that you could claim that you received the letter, but upon opening the envelope you found just some blank sheets, with the piego there is no way to deny that it has been received.

And viceversa, there have been cases of envelopes sent intentionally with blank sheets inside, only to get the receipt and then be able to claim that "document X" has been sent within a required deadline (and actually fabricating the document later).
I would be interested to know how Microsoft is justifying this - what does the Edge browser do that others don't? I presume they can't argue the old 'it's an integral part of the OS' type stuff following the previous court cases about this.

For example, if i'm using OSX, is there any situations where i'm forced to use Safari? I'm not aware of any, I believe I can delete Safari from Apps if I want and nothing terrible happens.

It does seem peculiar, i'm guessing it's more to do with being able to claim so many users, rather than ad flinging, but really, it's a bit weird and 90s if you know what I mean.
I had my wallet nicked in Padstow on the last day of a trip there and was just about take the 3.5 hour drive home. Problem was I didn't have enough fuel to make it. My CC providers took ages to even answer the phone and cancel the cards. Amex dealt with it a just a few mins, arranged to courier a replacement card to me by the next day and authorised a fuelling stop for me on my way home. I'll never be without one, ever.
I started programming at a pretty early age and I've always (probably from the first time I saw an emulator) had a goal to code an emulator myself. I start and abandon hobby projects all the time, so it took me quite a few tries to actually get some traction. But when I finally did, and I got to the point where I could see the BASIC prompt on my C64 emulator it was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. It was a great learning experience, not just making the emulator, but the whole journey to learn enough to finally make it happen. I highly recommend it if that kind of thing interests you, if not, then don't do it, do something that interests you instead.
You completely misunderstood what this project does.
This kind of libraries do not force you to return results in a specific way.
Generally they allow the programmer to customize how the results are scored and chosen.
> this study's conflict of interest makes its conclusions worthless.

"suspect" ... surely you meant "suspect" and not "worthless" ...
I believe it is a choice of each app developper (open web links in a WebView or in the external default browser)
Expecting someone to lend you 6 figures when you've never displayed any ability to repay 2 is far more bizarre.
Recession is by definition 2 quarters of negative gdp growth.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

Literally by definition not even on the brink of a recession.
Reminds me of their opt out strategy. You can opt out of their stupid behaviour (eg win10 welcome screen that pops up every now and then after boot) but then again after some updates they introduced just another switch that is turned on by default, ignoring effectively the user's choice of opt out.
Group policies have a shitload of these switches...
> people really have trouble explaining the moon's crescents, it is really funny

If you don't have that difficulty then you probably haven't thought about it long enough - yet.
> It does make it harder to maintain code for businesses, since keeping up with language updates means that you will have to do relatively more maintenance work to keep up with these breaking changes.

To be honest — I think even in my 90KLOC Haskell codebase — handling these breaking changes are a cheap and easy change because of the compiler.
Where did you find that statistic? It's interesting as the general advice is to always use a credit card online as the protection from fraud is better (although I think debit card protection has improved in the last few years).
This is HN. Show us the numbers or be laughed off the stage. (Hint: you don't have the numbers because the vaccines work.)
> Like safety, security is a cost centre with catastrophic penalties for getting wrong.

The main problem is that this cost center does generate any revenue. Try to explain this to a CFO.
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Amusingly, the headline says "funding plan" but the URL, more accurately, says "subsidy plan". Anyway, the crucial number is in the first paragraph:

> Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc will need a guaranteed price of 60 pounds ($80.62) a megawatt-hour for electricity produced from its small nuclear reactors, significantly less than the contract for Electricite de France SA’s Hinkley Point C station.

For comparison, the UK government's 2020 report on Electricity Generation Costs[1] said:

> In September 2019, the CfD AR3 Pot 2 auction cleared at £39.65/MWh and £41.61/MWh for offshore wind projects commissioning in 2023/4 and 2024/5 respectively (2012 prices).

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
"I didn't even know you could use a debit card,"

Is there ever a situation that you can use a credit card but not a debit card? There are occasionally places that only accept debit cards, but I think the only time I've had a debit card refused was when hiring a car.
Uncle Malky deserved better.
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> browserchoice requeriment which they managed to actually profit from (auctions)

Do you have any sources that show that there were auctions for spots on Microsoft's browser choice screen?
I'm not sure how higher interest is supposed to help them. According to your logic, payday lenders are doing poor people a favor.

If you asked people 20 years ago they would say compounding interest that massively exceeds inflation is evil. Nowadays people are worried about low interest being a problem because of their wholly incomplete model of economics that doesn't even address unavoidable natural monopolies like location.

The land market is inherently inefficient. That fact was papered over by high interest rates. Instead of paying the landlord huge sums, you paid the banks huge sums. Now that interest isn't going to the banks it's going to the landlord again.

The solution is obvious. Tax monopoly rights with a pigovian tax. The mythical free market in consumer goods only exists because of well written property laws. The mythical free market in land doesn't exist because the existing property laws are written extremely poorly.
There will always be some people who are stuck on Windows, because there will always be some people who need to use things like SolidWorks / Fusion 360 / Altium / Zemax.
What other prophylactic treatments do you take in your life before or after COVID? Because in my lifetime I can think of only a small number of classes of general prophylactic treatments I've ever seen a small number of groups of people take.

- Silicon valley rationalist types taking stacks of vitamins despite having no evidence on bioavailability because they are generally without side effects and who knows, you might live forever. I think the consensus on this now is that more or less this is not a useful practice, though I am unaware of any evidence for it being unsafe.

- Prophylactic hormone replacement therapy in middle aged women, which was eventually generally recognized as unsafe because of unexpected cancer risks not initially understood.

- Prophylactic breast self-examination, mammograms, and prostate exams based solely on age, the former of which have been significantly dialed back over the last decade because the risk of false positives or catching slow-growing low risk cancers causes a net negative from the treatment. I don't know what the state of prostate exam research is.

- Prophylactic aspirin for heart stuff: we seem to go back and forth on this, but the last I read was that actually there's mounting concern about chronic low-dose aspiring. At the very least, it's not obvious this is doing anything.

- Statin treatment in response to mild elevated blood pressure with no symptom of disease; not exactly prophylactic, but close in the sense that it's about advance management of expected disease. And last I read, researchers were increasingly recommending dialing back statin treatment for minorly elevated blood pressure because of, again, unforseen side effects.

So I just mention this to say that what I take from your post is "the precautionary principle suggests giving more weight to prophylaxis with no known side effects" and what I take from major medical stories in my lifetime is "no known side effects almost always turns out to involve side effects in the end, and that has to be part of the precautionary principle as well".

And I should note all of the above prophylaxis is based on clearly defined treatment regimens and physician supervision, not the kind of wild west ordering various formulations of ivermectin at unknown doses with or without medical supervision on an ad hoc basis.
“What’s easier than making a quick phone call? It’s certainly easier than getting internet access, typing a url into a browser address bar, validating a ssl certificate, establishing an http session, authenticating with your credentials then finding and clicking the cancel button.”
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Ah, that makes sense. Annoying, but makes sense.
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My first preference is to change the type of the divisor to NonZero[Int], and throwing an exception within div is only my second preference. It doesn't make sense to change the return type of div to Optional[Int] because the success or failure or the operation is determined entirely by a property of one of the arguments, which the caller can always check. Making div partial and encoding it in the return type just moves the the problem away from the place it occured and can actually be handled.
> legions of lesser philosophers have fallen into the same trap.

I don't know, this case is somewhat infamous, but it really speaks more to the Nobel committee's own biases than the field of philosophy. Bergson was prolific and influential, but also unpopular within many philosophical circles outside of the Francosphere, and also inside it by the time the post-structuralists came along.

Anyway, wait until you find out what the legions of lesser scientists have been up to since 1921...
Guidelines in question: https://assets.ctfassets.net/3nanhbfkr0pc/acoo1Fj5uungnGNPJ3...
Wirecast has existed since at least 2008, with most of the same core compositing and switching functionality we see in the space, although originally Wirecast did not support RTMP. It was originally only able to stream to QuickTime RTSP servers and Windows Media Server.

XSplit emerged slightly before OBS Classic but OBS innovated with a far superior game capture implementation on Windows, supporting shared texture hooking across D3D8-D3D11 and OpenGL, which helped it gain massive traction with the Twitch crowd. After retaining a large user base it was eventually rewritten as the cross-platform OBS Studio.
> 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 same goes for lots of organizations, which makes it really hard to vote with your attention, time and money.

Facebook is another example. Yes, React was really cool when it launched, and great innovation comes from the Facebook engineering team. But is it worth supporting their engineering team when at large, the organization seems to contribute more bad to world than good?

I'm torn myself and not sure what to think anymore. Same applies to Microsoft. I really want to like the new Microsoft, but it's hard to just forget the past and see past issues like this, and it makes my view on the rest of their tooling to be less favorable.