skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anything, that's an argument in favour of the whole thing being government controlled

Absolutely, and I kinda expect this to become the case eventually across Europe, as the "cashless society" vision becomes inevitable. If you make it de-facto compulsory for citizens to operate electronically, it's only fair that there should be the sort of guarantees and accountability that only the State can provide, even if you lose a bit of innovation or efficiency.
not typically unless you carry a balance. The merchant pays regardless if you use a credit or debit card, only the rate changes.
Indeed. I never knew how many people I followed on Twitter are white supremacist, Nazi, Russian assets until few years ago. Apparently, they're everywhere.
Given that Netflix knows exactly what was streamed from their servers and to which viewers, including if there are multiple simultaneous playbacks in a household/login, I suspect they are much more accurate than back of the napkin math.
A large standard library is a big part of the solution. Your project may pull in a crypto library that includes password hashing, and an oauth library, and a session management library, but all of those libraries will have few or no dependencies outside of the standard library.
Detecting the Flavors of Important Elements with Neutron Depth Profiling
To separate them in a logical fashion, you need to talk about nominal wages in #1 which have experienced growth roughly in line with inflation. Then, introducing nominal inflation in #2 builds on #1.

I cited a 2018 study because the time period in question was largely covered by it. I’m happy to review a 2021 study if you cite one.
Microsoft is a very large company. Anyone who's worked at a company even a tenth the size of Microsoft knows how hard it is to get the company to pick a direction.

The only real direction you can get everyone to agree on is "profit," and the nice thing about the existence of Azure as one of their major profit centers is that Microsoft now has a bunch of business that depends on Linux running well. A company mostly running Linux is already looking at them as third place behind Amazon and Google - if Microsoft risks making kernel developers unable to run Linux, they risk making kernel developers unwilling to accept patches to make Azure (or WSL) run Linux well. I'm not saying they're never going to try it, since the Azure org doesn't control the UEFI signing program, but I am saying there's a significant part of the company that will say that it threatens their profits to a scale much larger than the lost Windows licenses on consumer PCs.

Fun fact: every single example in the Wikipedia "embrace, extend, and extinguish" article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... is something that failed (IE is dead, Office 365 works great on non-MS browsers, MS has no influence on Java, MSN Messenger is dead, MAPI is dead, etc.). The only thing harder than getting a company the size of Microsoft to agree on something is to get the rest of the industry to go along with it too. The few cases where they've succeeded (e.g., the thing from the 1980s where they made OEMs pay them even for machines that didn't ship with MS-DOS) were when they had a sufficiently technically superior product they could use to bully people. They don't have that power anymore.
I wish he could find a way to do this analysis blind for these kind of controversial issues.

I felt like he was in the hunt to end up with a certain conclusion from the beginning.

I felt like his article on vitamin D for covid was similar. “Looks promising but I’m going to say it doesn’t work because I take covid seriously or something”
Golang Variadic Functions
But it doesn't avoid infection and is a lot weaker in protection as even a very old double-vaccination, much less a boostered one.
> Since 3 millions of vaccinations given out it could mean around 1 out of 6,000 deaths per vaccination.

It could, or it could mean something else entirely, and it could be within normal trends. Which is what it looks like to me if all cause mortality is lower than 2019 levels.

> So all in all, it wouldn't be possible for me to prove it even if vaccine was causing a lot of harm?

Not from this data, no.

> Because what else can I use besides excess deaths (as much data that as it's possible to gather), adverse event reporting tools etc, anecdotal stories. There's just no way.

Real research and analysis, not "I looked at some very high level graphs with fairly shallow data and decided that it fit my preconceptions".

If you're thinking "I don't have easy access to that information, and I don't have the time or the funding to investigate", you're quite right. Medical researchers will have to carry the can here.
That would be the extra price set by that particular point of sale / middleware.

Maybe look at Adyen instead.
Here's the help page in question:

https://monzo.com/help/overdrafts-loans/unauthorised-overdra...
This varies heavily by parish and region. Cincinnati's archdiocese, because of a shortage of priests, is in the process of consolidating a large number of parishes that were mostly created for ethnic reasons, and the philosophical/political differences are causing a ton of friction.
Smacking down the first one was supposed to signal to the others that this is not how society accepts them to behave.

I wonder where we got off track.
I think you've just answered your own question, the objective ratings would be generally poor.

I say this accepting that some Netflix content is really good and, overall, the cost per month is reasonable value - especially considering I sometimes pay more for one single series via Prime.
From the point of view of an absolute beginner, Linus shouldn't even be on a terminal. The PopOS shop should've worked. If it didn't work, a package installation shouldn't have asked him to nuke his GUI in huge wall of text, it should've rejected him (which is what a sensible package manager would do).

But sure, let's ignore the horrible UX and blame a newbie for not being experienced with how a terminal works.
I live in places where the sun always shines; it's almost impossible to work normally outside (which is my preferred office) without eInk. I wish there were more laptops because it works fine for coding (I have Boox devices which I use sometimes to write code). Phone same thing. Of course with the great extra of having very long battery life.

My wife writes/reads books on eInk devices and I do reading, browsing and shell/coding. It works really well.
> support for TypeScript will always be best in Microsoft's Visual Studio.

That typo is actually the problem. If they don't decide to make TypeScript a Visual Studio feature.

But my point is that VS Code would not be an alternative to Emacs if you could only use it for TS and Emacs wouldn't exist any more, if all that you could do with it was programming (Common) Lisp.
Seems like no one really knows what will happen. Proceed cautiously.
I have a UK perspective. Here, to get a VISA-backed bank to grant you more than 6-8k is a real struggle, whereas Amex will happily start at 10-12k and grow from there.
Ah, this sounds a lot better. Thanks for digging in!
Don't mean to come off like a zealot. To me, it sounds like the user accessed a show/hide-function in the graphical interface while using the mouse, and then didn't know how to bring it back (Control-Right Click or menu-bar-mode). The mistake and the ability to hide the menu-bar are both super common in any application and don't make Emacs fragile. Instructions for how to hide/un-hide stuff are in the manual.

I think people are just kidding themselves when they arrive at the conclusion that a program like Emacs---which is super mature, has a huge user base amongst very picky programmers and has survived in fierce competition for 45 years---is somehow fundamentally flawed, fragile etc. Of course it isn't. But it might not be your thing, and that's fine.
IANAL.

Trademarks don't need to be registered and many trademarks simply exist through active use.

However, your second paragraph is the key one. While trademarks don't need to be registered (and, in any case, trademark registrations are mostly on a country by country basis) it's pretty much on you to spend the money to defend your trademark if you want to do so. No one's going to do it for you.
Fastmail has subdomain addressing [0] to solve that.

whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld is the same as username+whateveryoulike@domain.tld

[0]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...
MX Linux MX-21 KDE – Now, here's a verily splendid distro
How can you be sure of your assertions? Have you done a randomized controlled trial? I don't think you have tested the alternative.
The UK has hinted it wants to increase the cap, as a “Brexit dividend”.
Fair point, I wasn't aware of this feature.
> folks only really use credit cards for large purchases and things like travel, here

This is delusional - the British have as many credit cards as people, £56.5 billion on credit cards, and 40% of credit card transactions were contactless, so certainly not large purchases.
The Technological Parentheses of Our Lives
'sudo su -' uses root to run 'su -' to open a root login shell.

'sudo -i' opens a root login shell.
My word list contains 7227 words apparently, so 12.82 bits per word

https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator

Not sure how many bits a "good" password should be nowadays.
Your second paragraph is spot on. When ever I login I see random sheet contents and equally sheet comments. Give me a resume hosting + job post/search site any day.
I think, that the information provided here is true. From the information I have gathered from sources that are running their small retail businesses, my take is that VISA is offering charge in tiers - for example(number are exagerated and hypothetical):
tier 1: 1- 10 000 - 3,5%
tier 2: 10 000 - 100 000 - 3%
tier 3: 100 000 - 1 000 000 - 2,5%

etc. you get the idea, so if VISA credit has low transaction count, then expenses for the transactions are a lot higher than for VISA debit transactions - if the user base for VISA credit is couple of tiers lower than for rest of cards, it makes sense for these "rare" users to switch to other cards, so Amazaon does not have to subsidize their loss of income from VISA credit cards.
After the article about how moving the mouse around actually made Windows 95 load faster[0], and modern computers that do irritate users by changing settings on their own, I would say that engineers should probably listen to users more often.

0. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/294907-why-moving-the-...
It's monochrome though right?

I can't imagine using a monochrome computer screen nowadays.
This would be amazing for gyms! I’ve paid for six months now for my old gym because I’ve been too lazy to go there in person fill out a form or whatever is required.
That’s certainly already the case. Ivermectin has lost effectiveness against particularly insidious parasites such as Haemonchus Contortus (barber pole worm). We’ve resorted to other treatments such as Moxidectin, Levamisole, etc, all of which are more expensive and harder to dose safely and effectively.

I can totally understand how Ivermectin got its following— it’s an amazing general purpose medicine around the farm. I generally use it responsibly by verifying the presence of parasites before administering (which can be literally any animal on the farm with almost any parasite) … but then there are times such as when my daughter had a single pet chicken (among many healthy ones) that wasn’t looking so hot … Whereas previously I’d just dispatch the animal and be done with it, now I give a dose of Ivermectin and isolate for a few days before calling in the grim reaper. So far the success rate is something like 90% where now my 9 year old daughter administers it herself. While I acknowledge this isn’t the most responsible, I can imagine others have had similar experiences which explain some of the popularity of Ivermectin with rural folk.
Well yeah, but it shouldn't make you smug. A Ph.D, while not the beginning, is definitely not the end, and the people we look up to as Really Smart never sat on their laurels and quit learning, never considered themselves above others.
There's bunch of red flags right from the beginning:

> When Cindy Warner joined Amazon Web Services in February 2020, she saw it as an opportunity to increase diversity and reshape the company’s strategy. ... Warner, ... said she had faced pay discrimination and an underlying culture of sexism and homophobia. She sued the cloud computing company alleging that male executives at AWS treated her with “open contempt, insults, and hostility” and upheld a “white boys’ club” – and claims she was fired shortly after.

It sounds like _she_ was the most toxic person there and was yeeted from the team for a reason.
This is one of the biggest benefits of using a virtual credit card from services like privacy.com or Capital One's Eno. Just create a card online specific to the service to pay for it, then cancel the card when you want to unsubscribe.

Capital One lets you create an unlimited number of cards at no charge.
FWIW, as a UK Amazon buyer with a Visa Credit card, I received an email this morning with Subject line "Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022" and nothing but my name in the body. A very, very basic email - interesting 'From' address though.

Received: from a0-156.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com (a0-156.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com [54.240.0.156]) <redacted>
From: "Amazon.co.uk" <amazon-offers@amazon.co.uk>
Subject: Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:15:34 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Amazon.co.uk

<name redacted>

Please note that this e-mail is being sent from an e-mail address that cannot receive e-mails. If you have any questions and wish to contact us, click here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?<redacted>

2021 Amazon.co.uk is a trading name for Amazon EU Sarl, for Amazon Media EU and for Amazon Services Europe Sarl, all of which have their registered office at 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg.
That's odd, I got a mortgage approved at 19yrs old, in the UK, with no credit usage/history whatsoever. I had a credit card but I'd held it for about 3 months at the time, and have never used it to this day.

Only since then have I actually had anything on my credit report (monthly broadband payment, phone contract, monthly car insurance payment because I didn't want to keep paying the whole 3k up front every year after moving out, etc) and despite that the score has remained unchanged.
Depends who that 'us' is. If 'us' is a typical Lisp user, then I doubt that any of the older systems is actually 'interesting' beyond software archeology. I think this 'us' better uses something like SBCL (+ whatever), instead of the old systems, available or not. Or Racket, CLojure, or whatever new language has enough mindshare to create an eco-system.
Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning
Infrastructure law: High-speed internet is as essential as water and electricity
Not in the UK
Occam's razor, Ockham's razor, Ocham's razor (Latin: novacula Occami), also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae), is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity",sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the best one."

Similarly, in science, Occam's razor is used as an abductive heuristic in the development of theoretical models rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models.[5][6] In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result; the preference for simplicity in the scientific method is based on the falsifiability criterion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

Coincidentally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250580
That's not true. Everyone had a voice on Usenet. The same cannot be said for Reddit unfortunately.
> Sadly, in Emacs, "extensions" are, to put it mildly, a rough ride.

That's because you (and each extension) has access to 'the' editor itself, whereas with for example Code, the plugin API is limited. Yes, you cannot change everything, but you also cannot break everything.
I see this repeated often, but it's not unusual in Denmark for credit cards, especially corporate cards, to have an extra fee applied.

Example in English: https://www.flysas.com/en/help-and-contact/faq/booking/why-d...

And in Danish: https://www.tivoli.dk/da/om/vilkaar-og-betingelser/betalings... (or without the reasoning in English: https://www.tivoligardens.com/en/om/vilkaar-og-betingelser/b... )
Sounds super dangerous though.
> You are paying for these "perks"

Everyone is paying for the perks, since prices are the same for everyone, but only the people with a credit card are getting them.

You're paying for their perks every time you buy with a debit card - it's madness to use debit.
Would you have a little time to describe how you made that switch? I've worried multiple times that I'm too deeply immersed in the emacs ecosystem and have wanted to try branching out into a different editor to see what I might be missing. However, when I spent a month using vscode, it was just a month of lost productivity. I found the interface completely inscrutable and couldn't find any good explanations of how to think about vscode.

As a concrete example, for the main project I work on, we usually configure via CMake and then build through Ninja. A simple `cmake` command followed by a `ninja -j4` was all I needed to get everything built. However, I could never get vscode to just do that. I saw that it had its own internal version of CMake (that could never find my shared libaries) and it had its own build system, but they usually failed to build (despite the code still building just fine on the command line). Every guide I found on vscode was about starting a new project from scratch and didn't touch on working with existing code.

I know that the issue has to be how I'm thinking about vscode. That I'm not understanding its philosophy on how to work with code. What that philosophy is, though, I can't seem to find a good understanding of.
Ah, lucky you. I read your comment on my phone and came to my desktop to type comfortably my rant.

Have you ever tried to cancel a loan?
The following story may or not apply to you. It happened in a small country called Spain:

Some time ago I bought a car. They offer you a very nice discount if you, instead of paying upfront, finance the purchase. Why? I asked the seller, it makes no sense. He gave me a list of more or less valid reasons, leaving the most important out: the draconian interest rate, which I inmediatly noticed. Noticing also the lack of integrity I decided to play along and took the loan with the intent of cancelling it ASAP. To summarize: it took something like 10 calls and saying on the last one that I was going to send a certified mail and forbidding my bank to pay a single €. I paid the loan and saved several thousand euros, even after paying "cancellation costs".

The whole enterprise has changed my view about regulation. It was regulation that gave me the right to cancel the loan against their will, and capped the cancellation costs, which I find it amazing they are even allowed, to compensate "for lost earnings". After the 2008 crisis a lot of regulation has been put in place affecting the banks. It's incredible they are allowing still this kind of scam to buy a car.
How is this better than having a single credit card that gives you automatic protection and insurance on everything that you buy without having to think to stay under your self imposed limit otherwise you have to manually top up the card with the amount that you need to spend?
I am from Brazil, and here speed limits are literally dangeorus.

1. In my city people mostly ignore speed limits, because often they are unreasonable.

2. At same time people are so used to the above, that they ignore speed limits in very unsafe places.

3. I don't ignore the limits myself since I am a new-ish driver, but I almost crashed multiple times, either because I was with my eyes too gluted at the speedometer, or because everyone else was ignoring the speed limit and almost crashed into my rear.

4. I got fined for crossing speed limit anyway, when I was trying to understand the fine, I found out they been placing radars on steep hills on fast roads, so you have basically two choices there: climb the hill using higher gears, and cross speed limit, or slow down until you can use lower gears, and risk people crashing into you.

5. In a specific very steep hill they put the speed limit so low that the only way to climb that hill is actually go fast as you can until right before the radar, brake hard, immediately put first gear, and shove your foot in the accelerator pedal again and resume the climb tires screaming, if you attempt to climb the whole hill slower your car is likely to stall, thanks to Brazillian popularity of really low power cars, our cars are literally illegal in some european cities because of how underpowered they are and thus dangerous in hilly places.
Practical Garbage Collection Tuning in Ruby
They are removing the option to be able to even set the protocol association. This has nothing to do with protecting users and everything to do with protecting their telemetry gathering.

When I set a default browser, if the OS needs to open a web page I want to it to open in that browser. If Apple can do this properly, so can Microsoft. Tired of the excuses and corporate double speak bullshit.
I've been going through MITs open courseware maths courses since they're better than what I had at university. If you get through 18.0[123] and linalg you'll be able to talk shop with anyone (not to mention apply the tools). I used Steven Boydes Linear Dynamical Systems for linalg. He's very entertaining and clearly incredibly sharp.

Btw I'm also 31
"Significantly less effective" is still a lot higher than most new vaccines and higher than the prophylactics you propose.

The loss in effectiveness isn't even that big of a deal. It only really matters for those most at risk. And it's hard to say how much longer the third dose will last, but knowing how the immune system works, I'd guess it will be more than 6 months, provided there is no escape mutation. Delta isn't an escape variant, btw, it's just a really fast worker. It gets up and running inside the body so fast, that even the remembered response takes a while to catch up. That's why the third shot, which reestablishes active, circulating antibody levels, is so effective: Now the virus is knocked out before getting started, and the usual infection dose, before replication, isn't enough to cause trouble.
Actually, that neighborhood of SF is one of the very very few parts of the Bay Area that are not NIMBY central.
You know what CUA mode is if you're older than 50. CUA mode was introduced in our 20's :-) If younger, you just can't now. It's like saying let's do it the "CORBA" way. Only the old guard will know...
Honestly, I think it’s fair enough to say ‘no true Scotsman’ is an invalid analogy to something that does have codified laws, teachings and commandments…

(Of course, following the laws, teachings and commandments is not the point of biblical Christianity (the idea being that it is impossible to in humanity’s current state), but Christians should want to, and strive towards being better at it, while being honest about their shortcomings!)
There are color touchscreens (Boox has one, there are phones that have those), but yeah I work in monochrome when there is sun or when I run out of battery; it works very well for me. But obviously YMMV! It beats sitting inside or squinting into my Macbook screen by a large stretch.