skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the opposite in the UK, at least over the last 10 years or so.

99% of debit cards are Visa, and most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large purchases and things like travel, here.

Even when it comes to credit cards, I would say Mastercard has like a large chunk - like 80% in terms of institutions (but who knows in terms of actual customers), I would say.

Barclays and HSBC are the only majors that do Visa as far as I know. And Vanquis which is a junky one for people with bad credit.

The other majors like Lloyds, TSB, Bank Of Scotland, Halifax, Natwest, RBS, are all Mastercard. Same with most smaller banks like Virgin and CapitalOne, and store branded ones like Sainsburys/M&S/Tesco, too, as well as the remainder of the popular bad-credit cards like Ocean, and Aqua. Mastercard.
I hope that that only goes for things that you can oversee the risks of and that you would refrain from giving medical advice to your relatives assuming that you are not a doctor.

"move fast and break stuff" is the wrong attitude for medicine and aerospace.

But a solution is better than no solution, and of all the countermeasures that we had available in March 2020 we only used a fraction.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRHH6e-y6I

note the date on that video.

As to your edit: no, here we have an argument that he thinks he understands, that's not the same thing. The argument as presented is at best a hypothesis, it isn't proof of anything, just one more theory that may or may not end up being the right one explaining the sometimes observed effect, assuming it really was observed in the first place.

This is precisely what makes this discussion so tiring: people will be swayed one way or the other based on arguments that they have no way of understanding unless they were trained in that particular field.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of politicians that fall into the same trap, leading to terrible examples of wishful thinking, outright quackery and conspiracy amplification. The harm that this is causing is substantial.

So even if this article swayed one person I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find people who get the opposite out of it, because hey 'x' has now joined the establishment, must have sold out.
I'd like to see some stats on that. My own experience is much closer to that of the OP.
It's just as bad in Europe! Signed up to O2 Deutschland - had to send a fax or send a physical letter to cancel.
Given I'm quite a newb at this field - found article interesting despite having (probably deserved) criticism.
the NYT is not a small startup.
Totally agree.

All the major banks apart from Barclays and HSBC use Mastercard for credit
Fun fact: At M&S, 12% of payments taken online for delivery to London addresses are paid by Amex. The rest of the country? <3%.
The idea of parsing indeed is to transform data, from a lower level of abstraction to a higher level of abstraction.

Parsing text (a sequence of characters) or binary files (a sequence of bytes) are well known.

The author mentions the case where a JSON parser has generated a bunch of JSON objects, but you want your own object types. (Deserialization libraries can do this automatically if all that is required is setting fields or properties, but for more complex cases you need custom code.)

Similar for XML parsing: all you get is a stream of element events, or a tree of generic XML objects, and you have to transform that further.

Another case would be when you get import data in the form of an Excel or CSV file. Your code starts with a 2D array of generic cells/values, and has to transform it into your own table/object types.
Such good writing. I was anxious about trying to read it all, but he kept me hooked to the end.

> I think it’s important to address ivermectin support on its own terms - as a potentially plausible scientific theory in a debris field of confusing evidence, which should be debated to the usual standards of scientific debate. I’ve tried to do that above.

This is also how I’ve kind of tried to view things, yet I continue to be disappointed. The studies shown here were way worse than I imagined. Just like when someone in my personal life says to me they’re skeptical of the vaccines. I want to take them seriously, I’m waiting for them to talk to give well reasoned arguments about hard choices and uncertainty, but it ends up being arguments one can dismiss with five minutes of research.

I predict that over the next 100 years bioethics will dominate the discourse. I want people to be ready to challenge the status quo and experts going forward. But covid has really shown that we’re not even remotely prepared. What will it take, four years of mandatory biology and philosophy for high school students?
I'm studying in the University of British Columbia and for some odd reason they did not make my classes asynchronous.

There were so many people who could not show up.
Banks fail to give credit to fake smart card 'genius' (2000)
It's called outsourcing, like that thing that horrible management does to their loyal employees. Surprised you have not heard about it
UK prices soar at fastest rate for almost ten years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250661 is saying the opposite so what is it?
I've used the Times a handful of times as a student. It's always painful when student discount ends and you ring up and say I can't afford £26 a month. They'll drop it to £10 then £5 but they never match my student price. I've had to leave during bachelors and professional qualifications.
A good refresher as to why a netflix subscription isn't worth my time or money. Gonna add these to my seedbox for that sweet sweet ratio though.
I think this is an interesting line of thinking. I was thinking along the same lines. I think it's probably the 'or something'. It's difficult to imagine what that would be exactly.
This is the case in the Netherlands and a contract cannot revoke this right (Burgerlijk Wetboek 6:236). If you subscribe online, you should be able to unsubscribe online.

Another thing that helps if you don't want to fight someone who violates this and they require you to send a letter, that an e-mail also qualifies as legally binding. So, if they ask a letter to end a subscription, they must also accept an e-mail.

(IANAL)
> The new guidelines around “negative option marketing” — which includes everything from automatic renewals to free trials that convert to paid subscriptions if consumers take no action — go beyond mandating that companies offer straightforward cancellation.

No, fuck this! If I get a free trial I want it to auto renew; if I have to take another step to make it renew that’s a waste of time, and inconvenient. If I don’t want it to renew I’ll cancel.
Other than some occasional small restaurants/pubs, and a few small indie shops, its basically accepted everywhere here in Edinburgh, I have a corporate amex and use it for expensing business dinners very often, and supplies from office shops, supermarkets, etc..
I feel the introduction via a critique of Trump is an odd choice. These days it seems required in some publications.
(no matter what the topic is).

It is -not. that I am defending Trump.

It is that I dont particularly see the reason to give him more of the spotlight and the mindshare than he seeks and wants.

History does have its place and we should not forget.
Nor should he be obsessed over.
Yes, one confusing aspect of SMTP is that there is a server-server part (listening on port 25) and a client-server part (465 or so, usually authenticated). I haven't dug in-depth, so maybe they are exactly the same protocol though.

Acessing port 25 of server is usually blocked by ISPs as a way to prevent spam.
> they keep asking for food

Who are “they”? Are you maybe falsely assuming that world hunger is specifically “developing country” hunger?

In the USA, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1). I’m also fairly certain that most people in most countries are not aware of how to grow their own food. World hunger is caused by numerous systemic issues, not the lack of farming abilities.

(1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness
Which is ironic from what I understand to be a mobile phone operator. Clearly they don’t trust their own network
Good thinking. When I cancelled it (No complaints, I just did one of the 12 week offers as it's too expensive for me in general) they made me go talk to a sales person in their chat room, and they actually put me on hold for ~20 minutes while waiting for the queue to clear. Then they try to sell you on a reduced rate before they'll let you cancel. C'est abusé.
The HN headline doesn't fit the article. UK issued Visa cards != Amazon UK, and it says Amazon.com, not Amazon UK.

For example Revolut is available in a lot of countries, they're UK-based, and I'm guessing the cards are UK-issued since a lot of merchants think it's a GBP card (and they conveniently ask if they should do the currency conversion (and conveniently don't tell you their conversion rate is much higher and profits them)).
Who would want to ever work under those conditions, it's practically spending all your working hours dealing with the Stasi just to pay your bills.
Most users either have a MasterCard or have a visa, and the majority of people couldn't get the other without substantial hassle. It would normally involve switching to a new bank, which in the UK is less frequent than divorces.

That gives visa a lot of lock in - and the competition is no longer MasterCard but instead openbanking API's.
Agreed. I find myself struggling to recommend it to newcomers - it is just so esoteric to anyone used to ctrl+C for copy. But I can't imagine life without it.

At my last job, I was forced to use PyCharm. Fine an IDE it probably is, I hated every second of it. Within 3 days I ditched it for Emacs.
Just like you don't need peace treaties between countries, they can just duke it out on the battlefield,
Again... really, please just stop.
They aren't that common.

Only 2 of the high street banks offer them, and one is moving away from them.

The rest are all Mastercard.
Maybe even just an intro to stats course in early high school would help?
Hedge fund dweebs: "We kill newspapers intentionally." Everyone here: "Fuggin NYT"
Vandals topple second wireless tower in Australia in four years
Shouldn’t the company bear the burden of that cost, not the consumer? That’s kinda silly.

Oh you require it by certified air pigeon? Great, happy to; pay for it.
I still don't know whether Ivermectin works or not, but mainstream media calling it horse paste is absolutely disingenuous and what increases distrust from me. It's as if they are incapable of understanding that same substance could be used for multiple species for multiple different conditions and in fact it has been used for multiple species.

So anyone calling it horse paste, horse medicine or even focusing on that makes me question their intelligence.
I used to have a corporate Amex, and it was a nightmare to use it in London. Even in places that said they accepted it, when I attempted to pay the card reader rejected it. That was about 5 years ago, maybe times have changed - it would be great to see data rather than a mixture of anecdotes.
Fun stuff. There's quite a few tutorials out there on emulating an NES too if this is your thing.

What I want to know though is are there any good tutorials on writing circuit simulators? I haven't come across any yet. Probably not as common since it requires some physics and electronics knowledge.
In my personal unscientific opinion, I am observing complete opposite - coffee is the modern evil of our society.

My gut feeling is telling me that coffee and digital devices are responsible for big parts of the population suffering from mental illnesses, caused via chronic sleep deprivation. Of course majority of those mental illnesses are under reported - being sleep deprived for months does not make you bipolar maybe, but depression can and does happen (as well as myriad of other issues).

There are too many studies who show relationship between sleep and all kinds of illnesses (majority - mental), and nobody can argue that coffee is NOT responsible for that at least partially.

When I recently quit on coffee, I had such strong withdrawal symptoms, I was unable to function for 4 days. I had strong headaches and was almost vomiting.

No study will convince me this is a good/healthy thing for a human body. It is drug which is so omni-present, if you look around it is scary.
Wall Street Journal does the same thing. It's completely mad.
His example makes perfect sense... when the "naive" implementation duplicates stuff over 100 or 200 LOC.

I've had joyful experience of working with duplicate code that spanned over multiple thousands of lines. I still fondly remember a PHP script generating multiple xml files, supporting different versions of format. (It was an e-commerce format for exporting and exchanging products data). And with multiple inconsistencies among this copy-pasta that have accumulated over time.

The problem here is the boiling frog syndrome. Duplication rarely starts with thousands of lines. It grows over time, and the longer you put up with it, the harder it becomes to roll it back. But as long as it grows slowly, the frog feels comfortable.

Clean code approach may get overzealous, the potential for fanaticism may even be sort of inherent to this approach (I agree), but it stems for acknowledging this simple, sad truth. The truth is that complexity of naive code is kind of like cancer. If you don't detect it before it actually begins to hurt, it's not great news.
The downvotes are likely because the parent clearly didn't read the entire article, and presented information in conflict with it. The engineering team is testing modified drilling techniques so they can resume repair work, this time (hopefully) without causing more accelerated settling.

This is all outlined in the article, and it's frustrating to see people commenting when they haven't read it.
The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 MM Miles Away (2012) [YT]
Amazon Australia started charging fees to pay via Visa starting this month. No fees for Amex or mastercard.
It's time to update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_that_are_inacce...
I never knew Visa even has credit cards, only knew about MC and I know plenty of people who use Amex for everyday shopping. It's my default for pretty much ALL online payments, even grocery deliveries.
I absolutely hate acidic or sour coffees.

The thing I like about blue mountain is a strong coffee flavour, very smooth, without any acidity or sourness. That's what I value from it. I'm not looking for fruity acidic or sour because I don't like any of those things. I'm looking for smooth bold coffee flavours without those things.

You can enjoy your coffee that you enjoy. I certainly wouldn't, but I'm glad you do.

In my experience all the etheopian coffees I've had were unacceptably sour. But taste is personal and you are free to enjoy it.

Until quite recently it was still cheaper for me to be drinking blue mountain than it was to be using those keurig pods. I just have decided to spend less on coffee in general, but haven't found anything to replace the blue mountain or even approximate it.
Chain got too deep to reply.

We did adopt his methods, but many years and hundreds of deaths too late, and not before declaring him insane for his beliefs and putting him in an asylum.

What I'm saying is that authority has a dark side. Sometimes the establishment is actually wrong. Regardless of right or wrong, it always chooses to erase its critics. Some of us disagree with the erasure, even in cases where the critics are wrong.
No, they just want it to be as hard as possible.

Although I was surprised how relatively big faxes are in Germany. I never had sent a fax before I was in Germany.
T-Mobile Thuis literally delayed the end of my subscription by two months, and only cancelled it when I called back. There wasn't ever a way to cancel online. In practice they've really been truly garbage, lawful or not.
One liner article and still paywalled.

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Some customers received a notification from Amazon this week after making purchases, which said that "starting 19 January 2022, we will no longer accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK" due to the high fees charged by Visa to process the transactions
Nationwide uses Visa for their credit cards.
You're right, my perception was influenced by how many of my cards are debit cards or debit-like (i.e. prepay of some kind). When those switched issuer over the years, it was always Mastercard -> Visa.
factories invented the coffee break to increase worker productivity on long shifts (so Michael Pollan says), it is not a habit exclusive to white collar work.
Ah, yep, you're right. Unfortunately, I apparently can't edit my comment to correct this. Lovely.
Yet, I feel not everyone is technically literate enough.

This could very be a risk. I was using Chrome when I found this out, I wasn't given any such warning.

It'd be good with chrome can offer some discouragement to these.
I agree with you that our industry should spend more time training frontend engineers. Frontend is often treated as an afterthought, which ends up being very costly in the long run.

That being said, the addition of types was definitely not us chasing a popular framework. Etsy adopts tech really, really slowly. We had a pretty specific set of problems that types had traditionally solved in many other areas of the stack, so we evaluated JavaScript type systems and decided on TypeScript.

I don’t really think the “types make bad code, functional programming makes good code” argument here is made in good faith — there are good and bad codebase using any paradigm you can think of. Give TS a try, or at least let me answer some of your specific concerns about it.
The problem is likely to be with the scientific approach of the studies included (they are not filtered) than the meta-analysis itself.
Like an anthropologist, or a psychologist...
React vs. React Native: The Ultimate Comparison
Having read a few of Han's books I always liked the way he analyzed things (in a very observant way) in the first sections of his books only to be let down (or downright annoyed) by the conclusions he draws out of this analysis in the later sections.

And I say that as someone who studied Philosophy and Media science, so I am definitly not just allergic to hard theoretical jargon.
Still better than waiting hours on a "support" phone line
> the shield would destroy [some of] this volley of Russian missiles

Russia used to have 10K+ rockets, now it's around 3000 but they're MIRVs, so they just split when reaching space and have independent targetting... so 3000 x 10/20 payloads to track and destroy.

The anti-missile shield won't be able to destroy them before they reach space (Russia is big... anti-missile shield can't reach Russian territory...)

Russia can detect preemptive attacks (spies, radars, satellites, ...)

After they're launched, good luck stopping them.

As for the Nuclear Blackout, strategy is like this - launch all of them, some of them would blow in space (just need a few 1M nukes blowing off at the same time to black out tracking for all that follow and added benefit - fry out satellites)

This is ignoring all the submarine launched nukes...

So, I hope you understand the first strike then neutralize is unrealistic...

Even if those are somehow not launched, what happens to:

- short range tactical nukes - army groups can launch independently and who knows where they're deployed

- hypersonic hug-the-ground missiles - can't radar track them since they're flying so low, can't hit them due to speed...

- submarines launching nukes / destroying most major population centers...

- Nuclear winter... even if say everything works and Russia decides not to fight back... the world is stuck with nuclear winter for century or two...

- Other players?, would the rest of the world sit idly by for nuclear winter?

> This doesn't make them impenetrable. Defenses can be overwhelmed, artillery can be deployed to take down anti-air, strike troops can do the same.

Sure... nothing is impenetrable, but 70-80% losses would make it prohibitive to sustain operations...

Nuclear tipped anti-air missiles make overwhelming attacks really stupid... just need one of these to wipe out an attack...

Tactical nukes make overwhelming ground attacks trying to neutralize anti-air stupid...

Taking that out of the equation attackers are limited to small strikes which would take heavy losses... but hopefully limited to conventional only..

> they could also find themselves attacked through multiple borders.

NATO is only on the western border... Russia is big... Look how well invading turned out for Napoleon or Hitler...

Hell... Look at Vietnam and Korea to see what happens when you meet a determined defendant to appreciate how NATO would fumble on offensive...
I legit thought OBS and Streamlabs where connected
The government has been destabilizing societies through surveillance, one housing crisis after another, inflation, unchecked immigration to keep wages down, lying about masks, lying about gain of function funding, lying about herd immunity, lying about vaccine effectiveness and countless corruption scandals.

Lockdowns have caused people to gain 10 kg on average, which increases their risk for many diseases, including Covid-19. That alone shows you that the medical authorities do not have you best interests at heart. They want to keep ICU beds free for the gerontocracy.

Sweden, which did none of that, now enjoys low Covid-19 numbers and fatalities.

Ivermectin, while probably useless but harmless, is a complete side show. It is used by the mainstream to create an illusion of conspiracy theorists and Deplorables and to divert from actual issues.
To make your life easier, just get the official nRF52840 Dongle - it's only 10€ but has all GPIOs conveniently exposed. No need to repurpose the LED or the user button for a GPIO.

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-hardware/nrf...
Most of your incredulity seems to be rooted in Red Notice (probably) not being a good movie.
But I really don't think that factors into Netflix viewership as much as you'd like.
Netflix is treated more as "friday night tv", than "going to the cinema" and people are much more willing to sit through crap on Netflix than you seem willing to accept
I see results popping up from time to time that caffeine is good for cardiovascular health. That makes intuitive sense to me - since a big benefit of aerobic exercise is getting your heart rate up, caffeine should have some of a similar effect. This might be particularly strong in the demographic susceptible to strokes and dementia, as they are less likely to be exercising in the first place.

Then, I wonder if better cardio health removes one stress factor causing these diseases.

Not remotely a biologist, and heavy coffee drinker.
I agree that a benchmark on CPU/GPU would be helpful for this effect. However, I doubt you'd end up running out of ram through using this technique unless it was added to a large number of elements.
Tip: when you’re ready to cancel, change the physical address in your account to one in California. Magically, a cancel button appears (to comply with California law).

I did this the last time WSJ decided to jack my rate to something obscene.