skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and what's more: how easy it is to enlist people to push such a bullshit story further than it would ever go on its own. That is the really bad side of this, the weaponizing of social media to do real world harm to entire populations.
How was it? Did you like it there? It strikes me as soulless.
How can you name your service NS1 but then not use the ns1. subdomain for the first nameserver. SMH
While that is its main use, it's also great for recorded video content.
Some visualization on the package repo and in the CLIs would be excellent. Often when I run a dependency analyzer on a project I'm disgruntled.

I think what that Schlinkert guy is doing is obviously grifting, so I don't have to speculate on his intentions to call him a grifter.
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Thank you for your kind words. Being able to write JS is critical for some types of apps, so it's a great addition.
are you having a bad day? sorry :/
Sure, but my point is "consensus" doesn't necessarily mean "truth", even though the vast majority of people use the terms interchangeably. "Everyone but one person is wrong" is a situation we've seen numerous times before in the history of science. And when the matters of social acceptability, prestige, politics, and just plain ability to make a living enter into the consideration, very, very few people would even be willing to challenge the status quo. I wouldn't. I have mouths to feed.

I'm fully resigned to the fact that we won't know for sure if Ivermectin helps with any of this shit for at least another decade until tensions subside. Could be that millions of people died while they didn't have to. Could be that it's total horseshit. There's no way to know, and "consensus" means next to nothing in these circumstances.
The average doctor is an expert in memorising text books but has no ability to think.
You still can have .d.ts file and refer to that in JSDOC
I think it's very useful to send links to mobile.

I use https://Qrile.com everyday, may times for the same.
Inequality is innate to our reality. As far as resources go (e.g. land), we live in an anisotropic zero-sum world. Inequality between entities is inevitable in such worlds regardless of economic policy, and becomes more notable as more entities come to exist.
Give them food and they keep asking for food. Better create the possibilities to grow their food.
Or, alternately, the incidence of drug-resistant parasitic infections is on the upswing due to misuse of the drug.
I'd like to see a similar study with adderall thrown into the mix. I've been rotating between coffee, tea, and adderall for the past eight years.
Thanks for the video. I missed it and it's better than the transcript because it has schemas (the current solution is hard to understand without them).

I'm surprised the piles don't break due to the sinking on only one side? Can it not happen?
I had exactly the same feeling when I tried to write TypeScript - in theory it does everything a modern typed language does, it should be easy to use, right? After a week of struggling I gave in and made an actual effort to set up Scala.js instead - and it worked first time, the IDE integration was so much better (even though notionally it sounds like TS should be just as good), and it was just such a relief to actually be able to use those few missing pieces (good nominal types, proper sum types that aren't just inclusive unions, ...) again.
> In my opinion it should be an argument,

It is a fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority . To make an argument, there needs to be an argument.
I've often wondered if people with Chromesthesia (who associate sounds with colours and/or colours with sounds) fall into sets of people with similar colour/sound mappings.

"..studies to date have reported that synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike associate high pitched sounds with lighter or brighter colors and low pitched sounds with darker colors, indicating that a common mechanism may underlie those associations in normal adult brains"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromesthesia
For what it's worth, Logitech made that contribution well before they bought Streamlabs
.plan is the historic unix equivalent of todays status on social media.

you would write your status (or what you plan to do or whatever) into a .plan file in your home directory,

and you could use the finger command to query the contents of that .plan file from other users on the machine. or on any other accessible machine.

plan.cat appears to be an attempt to make that feature accessible through the web, complete with the ability to create an account and add your own .plan file.

not what i would go for. i would much rather prefer something similar that i put on my own webpage. (well, technically, all it would take is to agree on a standard url like https://my.home.page/plan or something like that.
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Love the final explanation for how ivermectin can be incidentally good for COVID-19 patients, even if it does nothing to COVID-19 directly.

In fact, as the author cites from another researcher, the trials are a strong piece of evidence for "add[ing] ivermectin to mass drug administration programs." In other words, global medical welfare, where we just give everyone a bunch of a cheap and effective medications to counteract the most prolific diseases. In addition to reducing mortality from diseases targeted by the medication, it will probably reduce incidental mortality when people contract multiple conditions at once. I.e. getting ivermectin for a detected COVID-19 infection has a 10% chance of helping you, because you have a 10% chance of having an undetected worm infection that will kill you if your immune system is suppressed by drugs that are used to prevent COVID-19 from killing you.

I do think the ending political metaphor doesn't quite fit, however. I see more parallels with workplace politics than an alien invasion, for why our societies have become so divided on relatively meaningless issues. Uniting disparate factions to work towards a common goal is an uphill battle that sees more failure than success, most often in our workplaces. To me, the ivermectin drama was just another example of an emergent situation that wasn't optimally handled by a collection of random individuals, who despite the best intentions, were unable to unite a group. Doesn't make them bad people, or mean they have the wrong approach. Just means they weren't ready to tackle such a difficult challenge. Positive outcomes take dedicated effort, they don't come automatically because we assume the status quo is good enough to us immune to random chance.
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"Tackle", not "solve".

If you're thinking about earlier reporting that wrote about "solving", that was a mistake.

The UN never claimed that a one time donation could eradicate hunger once and for all. It was just an overeager headline by CNN, that Elon Musk read and took for real.
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If the idea is to keep taller buildings straighter, then it makes sense. And that might be an important engineering consideration, considering that a taller building has more leverage.
On my first job at an internet provider company, they had no backend. They were using some proprietary software and SQL functions instead. One day the CEO came in and said: "Guys, we need to print a small QR code on mails to customers. ". The team lead responded: "Sure, our intern can do it."

Oh my gosh, that was a crazy task! I built a fully functional QR code generator on pure SQL from scratch! It was very fun.

Check out Wikipedia [1]. They explain how QR codes work really well. Well enough to build your own generator.

I also used ZXing code [2], that Muzani shared below here, as a reference.

[1] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

[2] — https://github.com/zxing/zxing
Tangential but did you evaluate Snowpack and Vite? Both seem to share the same space and I was leaning towards Snowpack, but Vite now seems to have the mindshare. Which as a small dev shop is important when betting on it for 3+ years
Sure, as long as we don't care about the people starving today. A small price (not for us) to pay, right?
$2,500 would be about the average monthly gross income of a person earning $15/hr. And in terms of expendable income, that's an order of magnitude away of what people can shell out.
I was hoping this would be about using different colours in musical notation, as I think that black-and-white sheet music doesn't use all the visual tools available to modern designers.

It might be hard for musicians to decide what note to play just by looking at an associated colour (especially if they are colour-blind), but there shouldn't be any downside to doing something like "syntax highlighting" for musical notation, where the existing symbols are used, but are coloured based on what type of information they are conveying, e.g. tempo, dynamics, style.
Fun trivia: iirc, John Carmack used his .plan as his then "blog" before Twitter came along.
It's a music player and not even a good one.
The link points to "The Good" part. There's also "The Bad" part: https://cdagostino.io/posts/2018-03-28-one-year-common-lisp-....
There are sometimes German words and phrases being used, wrongly. One of the lesser authors seemed to actually use google translator, and badly at that.

To me as a native, it just has a feeling of wrongness. For the German language this is different than Dutch because Dutch has a less complicated morphology.

One non-morphological example is that they would translate "uptime" as something like "aufzeit", while referencing it like a river. "zeitauf" would make sense as an adjective, but it hurts as a noun. The literal translation would be "Hochzeit" which unfortunately already means "wedding", but could be distinguished by context and pronunciation.
Isn't this an example of some rigid and ineffective thinking patterns?

Article publishes sound arguments, doesn't talk down to the audience, admits problems with appeals to authority... and converts a conspiracy believer!

...No way, there is no way that can possibly work, the others are way too dumb, and the convert is a bad person... basically anything to just go back to pretending appeals to authority work. Despite clear evidence to the contrary. Or lamenting that they don't. I'm drawing some parallels with miracle cures here ;)
Some digital tokens are considered securities. Those, too, can be used with many of these platforms and protocols.

It also depends on the nature of the yield and marketing.

Just like you can issue paper that constitutes a security in exchange for taking custody of fiat currency.
Having different services trust different (and unrelated) bits of the request is an immortal classic though, great stuff.
After watching that story of the condo collapse in Florida, it gives me the creeps to think about going near that thing.
> Bur another (third?) set of engineers was also wrong, not anticipating the impact that their work to fix the situation would have on actually accelerating the problem.

The leaning tower of Pisa has a similar history: most attempts at straightening the tower only made it worse. I've heard this about another leaning building, also in Europe I believe, but I cannot remember where.
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Oh wow so you're an antimasker too, didn't have that on my bingo card. Thing is I did wonder how last years WHO-antimaskers cope with the advise reversal. Now I see they didn't.

We found that communities with high reported mask-wearing and physical distancing had the highest predicted probability of transmission control.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7...

Not a shocker really given how all successful containment measures over the pandemic did include masks (same for earlier SARS outbreaks). And we literally had a hundred years worth of practice using masks for airborne transmission diseases to draw conclusions from.

> What am I supposed to take from that?

That it's entirely possible to use common sense to gauge everyday risks without demanding a peer reviewed study. Crossing into traffic is dangerous. Mechanical barriers help catch particles. Deceptive people are less trustworthy. A formal study would often quantify that, but coming to opposite conclusion than common sense concept happens very infrequently and then usually warrant a replication study.

However the dynamic with online peertards is they use proof requests as an attempt to shut down the discussion, knowing all well that finding supporting research (which often does exist!) in unfamiliar field is a lot of work. When people object to that, the perfect trifecta of cookie-cutter strawman, ad-hominem and non-sequitir accusation follows.

In our case you didn't seem to bother looking for peer reviewed research that cheaters are more (or even just as ) trustworthy as baseline, which would be a really remarkable, counter-intuitive result worth sharing. Nope, you'd rather latch on an entirely reasonable comment and insist that not playing along with your foolishness is anti-intillectualism.
It seems you are not yet familiar with the insanity of "Sofortüberweisung"...
Because 'works' in a medical context is a boolean that encompasses everything from 'order of magnitude lower chances of death' (effective vaccines) to '1% relative reduction in death' (off-label use of some random drug not intended to target improvement in COVID recovery), so the focus has naturally been on finding treatments with high effect sizes and distributing them as quickly as possible. Not to mention the herd immunity element to vaccines.
Shameless plug of a thing I wrote about the same essay. Might be useful for added context.

https://axyl.us/post/3048516084/waking-up-to-fatigue-society

I wrote it before an English translation was published, so I called it "fatigue society", which I still think is a more appropriate term than burnout society.

(Knowing that the essay is more than a decade old should help explain the strong assertion right off the bat that we aren't living in a "viral" age.)
The wake up call for me was Heartbleed -- a serious flaw is potentially everywhere, and people who think they are protected because of their tech stack choice are living in the biggest bubble of them all.
This is worth reading purely for the writing alone. Scott Alexander is a treasure:

> As best I can tell, this is some kind of Egyptian trial. It might or might not be an RCT; it says stuff like “Patients were self-allocated to the treatment groups; the first 3 days of the week for the intervention arm while the other 3 days for symptomatic treatment”. Were they self-allocated in the sense that they got to choose? Doesn’t that mean it’s not random? Aren’t there seven days in a week? These are among the many questions that Elalfy et al do not answer for us.
To reiterate on what sibling comments said, I'm the one who spawned the discussion and implementation of Corepack, and npm remained largely out of it; the push mostly came from pnpm and Yarn.

Additionally, unlike other approaches, Corepack ensures that package manager versions are pinned per project and you don't need to blindly install newest ones via `npm i -g npm` (which could potentially be hijacked via the type of vulnerability discussed here). It intends to make your projects more secure, not less.
I think the heading is fine. They are beating Lucene in the context of their particular problem.

Any additional features that a product has but which you don’t need for a particular purpose is a downside, not an upside.

They’re not claiming to beat Lucene for the general case of everything Lucene is capable of.
Sure, but this study is based on UK data.
> the scandinavian character (oslash, ae) may be nice to have

Those are Danish or Norwegian characters, they are not "the Scandinavian characters" as they are not used in Sweden (using ö/ä).
The questions are usually formulated to address:

1. Respondents’ appraisal of current business conditions.

2. Respondents’ appraisal of current employment conditions.

3. Respondents’ expectations regarding business conditions six months hence.

4. Respondents’ expectations regarding employment conditions six months hence.

5. Respondents’ expectations regarding their total family income six months hence.

Any respondent concerned with personal and widespread job losses from non-vaccination would likely score 4 and 5 low and that would show up in this type of survey.
Hyperbole aside, I experienced the exact same sequence of events on this side ^_^

The conclusion, for those of you that are wondering:

> We found that drinking coffee and tea separately or in combination were associated with lower risk of stroke and dementia. Intake of coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with lower risk of poststroke dementia.
FOSS doesn't really have permissive copyright though. You can't claim to be the author of a FOSS work that is not your own, even if it uses a permissive license. The license and the copyright are somewhat orthogonal.
The bit most people are interested in is the potential prophylactic effect, not so much treatment once you have it (at least the people who are following the science and not buying into the weird cute claims.) It having an apparent antiviral effect during treatment indicates there's a possibility for mechanism of action that can prevent catching covid. It might be noise in the data, but studying it in large trials is justified imo.
How TS makes functional code harder?
> Just like Wayland

Oh my god I didn't know that's where that came from! As a mass-hole, that's cool to learn about the origin.

> Greenfield is a city in Massachusetts

Not the first city I'd pick for a project. Maynard, Weston, Wellesley all are near Wayland and seem less connected to existing buzzwords.

Edit: No criticism of the project though, seems pretty cool! Don't want to come off too negative about the name. This is a really cool project, and I can image some fun uses for it in the future.
May I ask, completely sincerely, what approach you would settle on for trying to discriminate truth from fiction if you believed you couldn't get reliable information from reading 30-odd studies?
Using all available means to strip a particular group of their rights because of their gender or orientation is not extremism to you?
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I'm not quite sure what exactly you want backed up (nor did I write that), but from the top of my head https://www.chick.com/information/article-listing?subject=ca... might answer your question to some extent.
Can't we just add Pluto and Charon together and say "by your ~powers~ masses combined, I am ~Captain~ the ninth Planet!"
What you're saying has nothing to do with the complexity of their app.
NRO have most of the best ones but this patch has to be my favourite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/509th_Operations_Group#/media/...

For anyone interested Trevor Paglen wrote a book about these patches. His talk at CCC is one of my all time favourites. Towards the end he provides the background to some of these patches:

https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...
>One thing hasn’t changed though - I still love Emacs and I’m quite passionate about it.

As passionate in your love for Emacs as Kyle Machulis is? ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29207607

https://github.com/qdot/deldo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
You will stop running in coercion issues, provided you've typed it all out and don't use the any type. Which to me is the bulk of the craziness.

There still isn't a Float type and you can still recreate all the memeable NaN NaN Batman code that never is an issue in the first place.
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Magit is what got me hooked. I just find it the best way to interface with git other than via the terminal.
I'm sorry to sound antagonistic, but that is a deeply lazy take.

It is so incredibly disrespectful of your fellow human to assume that "uncomfortable = illegitimate" by default, which is absolutely what your comment does.

Seinfeld absolutely has a lot of pretty blatantly sexist humor that would, sure, not be acceptable on TV today, but was also shitty, then. We just didn't do a particularly job of caring about it.

> Being uncomfortable isn't acceptable in 2021.

Says who? Watch Squid Game. Watch Parasite. Watch... I dunno, Big Mouth. These are just random things that come to mind, but they're huge, mainstream pieces of media that are actively challenging to watch and use that uncomfortable feeling to an end, without punching down.
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Doesn't it cause practical problems also, in addition to anxiety? Small problems, yes, but that accumulate over time. Water that accumulates in corners? Cooking with non-level pans is annoying.

It reminds me of that famous French comic about a (false) superhero called "Superdupont" in charge of protecting all things French. In one story the enemies of France steal the standard meter, and as a result all buildings become askew. I can't find it online right now but it's extremely funny.
It seems clear that both are partly true? For example: while climate change has been getting worse in the last few decades and so has wealth inequality in the west, humanity as a whole has made some great strides in reducing preventable diseases and global hunger.

In any case the fact that pessimists prevail in the headlines may not have anything to do with how the world actually is, but more with what sells newspapers. It is well-known that (after sex) human misery sells much more copy than happy stories. "If it bleeds it leads" and all that.
The consensus in the medical world is that if there is a link it is extremely weak, far weaker than you'd need to establish that 'millions died while they didn't have to' as you write, and that if it works it probably needs very high doses, higher than considered safe.

At the same time, we have vaccines, which do work (though the slow roll-out and the many, many hold outs certainly don't help, as well as that it leaves the question of how to deal with children for the moment mostly unanswered).

And propagating this Ivermectine (and Hydroxychloroquine as the predecessor) nonsense has caused a lot of people to forego their vaccinations. And that does have very clear effects.

So even if consensus doesn't mean truth typically it is the experts that go against the grain with hard proof in their pocket that win out over the long term.

It is very rarely going to happen that new scientific truth will come from conspiracy theorists rather than from the establishment, though I guess if you live long enough that too will one day happen.
What would divide by zero do for a JS dependency?
Peruvian coffee seems to consistently taste better than other sorts of coffee for me. I really liked the Peruvian organic made by Coffee masters.
It only seems to apply to high-traffic podcasts. The one I notice it regularly in is a podcast called 'Lorehammer', where at the start and end of the episodes Spotify has inserted a location-specific advert (lately Australian Police recruitment ads for some reason). These seem to be baked into the audio file as they can be skipped through with the fast forward button.

I understand people who listen to Joe Rogan hear these a lot too
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