skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who even if they do make mistakes have your best interests at heart

They, like every other person, have their own best interest at heart, which, if you're lucky, aligns with yours. "Just listen to the authorities" is probably the worst advice ever given.
That depends on the side effects and the dose required+. So no, you can't just draw that conclusion.

+ edit: , etc...

Thanks Cthulhu_.
Many Hollywood-type movies are pretty formulaic and start with the backstory of the hero, what is their daily life, before the first inflection point at eround 20-25%, the big event that forces the start of the hero's journey.

I would imagine many people stop during this first act or during the last one when you can tell how everything is going to be tied together.
Relevant quotes from my first message:

> Within the group, the extent of your knowledge will help you distinguish from others.

> the way this taste (but also the artist's skill) is acquired is highly correlated with social belonging: your appreciation of a specific piece of work is informed by your past experience within your social environment.

The setting you describe is a perfect example of this: a group with agreed upon acquired taste, which uses knowledge of that taste as criteria to rank art pieces. In that setting, the judgement is bidirectional: not only do people judge art pieces' worth, but they are judged for their good taste by their ability to separate the pieces according to the group's criteria.

> Our daughter likes to draw a lot in her own style. Now she is revisiting her old drawings and redrawing them few years later. While her earlier work has some naive charm, she tends to prefer her later pieces, and indeed I do find her current work "better" in the sense that the characters are "more" there - they are more skilfully renderered and have "more character".

I don't want to judge your daughter's art, but it is perhaps unsurprising that she uses her latest opinion to judge her own work. As she acquires a sense of aesthetics, her new artwork will tend to confirm to that new taste.
Staying Human in a World of Platforms, Screens and Masks
Where are you reading about the state of emergency?
> Now it turns out, laughably in hindsight, that the effect is probably whether people had parasites or not and I hadn't thought of that.

No, that's just a hypothesis. To move that to 'probably' would require a very carefully designed study.
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I vowed never to pay the NYT another dime after the hassle they gave me about unsubscribing from their crossword subscription a few years ago. It was such a pain, I told to actually cancel my news subscription too. Never looked back. These days I mostly read the WSJ and it meets my needs.
Those other drugs cant compete on price.
Shadows are computationally expensive to generate. First the object has to be rendered to a buffer, and then the buffer blurred, and then the blurred buffer, object and background composited together.

Having many shadows on an object makes this path much longer. I can imagine adding this to a page could easily run out of GPU RAM and end up having to discard buffers which later need to be re-rendered.

End result:. Hot slow phone.

I'd like to at least see a benchmark of this effect before suggesting multiple box shadows.
ECMAScript has gone through many revisions since its inception, so it is clearly possible to modify the language.
You could try spreading the truth instead of bullying people? I do care about my mothers health you know. And if a doctor isn't convinced by a large number of studies I want them to explain why not rather than call me a conspiracy peddler.

The way someone gets ivermectin is to walk a doctor through the evidence they've seen and then ask them to prescribe it.
Now I just wish this was implemented in my country/EU. NYT set the precedence for our national newspapers.
2021's Word of the Year alludes to a uniquely Australian problem
Fortunately I have been able to cancel my Le Monde Diplomatique for many years through email. I did not get a confirmation email but they stopped billing me at least.
A prophylactic effect would be, pardon me, stupid. There is even less evidence for that, and the vaccines clearly work better.

Also you'd need to take Ivermectin continously for the next few years?? Compounding the cost and potential risks from sideeffects. Ivermectin is quite safe, but there are some risks, all drugs can go wrong every once in a while.
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.

When they invented antibiotics, people began predicting "the end of disease." Fast forward a few decades and we have the rise of scary antibiotic-resistant infections.

Medical stuff doesn't work the way most people would like to imagine it does. This sounds like a terrible thing to conclude. I'm rather unsettled to see it lauded here on HN.
Maybe, although without further evidence accusation of conspiracies will fly back into your face.

The site might look professional, but it still could just be another true believer. If you frenetically ban the content, more people will believe the message and more importantly disbelieve yours since it "obviously" cannot stand scrutiny.

And there are real problems here, the infrastructure to censor certain message on social media got quite effective and to believe tech companies as government contractors won't use it to spread falsehoods is naive. Not by conspiracy, it is just a dynamic government will certainly show.
Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards
When I meet quite practical devs that are into PHP or Java, they always recommend IntelliJ. Can anyone of that crowd that also have a solid understanding of Emacs do a short comparison between the two?

I'd really appreciate it.

Currently, I've only mustered enough courage and time to understand enough of vim to not feel scared of it anymore (vimtutor was the silver bullet for me there, learning enough vim in an hour to feel fine with it).
I don't write down most of my passwords so every time I log in I do a password reset. It is mainly out of laziness not for a security purpose.
For me, this is a bit similar to how Linux is not really an OS, it's a set of tools with which you can build your own ideal OS. This means everyone who likes "Linux" likes a different configuration.
I am not sure what you're getting at. Are you unfamiliar with hash tables as a data structure?

If your keys are maximally clustered then you can use an alternate dense representation. Otherwise, using a hash table with the identity hash function will likely result in many collisions.
They may with them being in the WHO patent pool.

Also a free drug that probably doesn't work isn't all that competitive...
Same thing with The Guardian. Subscribed online and was then told I can’t cancel via email and have to endure a pushy sales call if I want to cancel. Similar experience with The Economist except it was via live chat instead.

These experiences honestly make me want to never subscribe to a newspaper again.
No you won't.
I also dislike this business practice, but I don’t think the only way it comes about is from lack of confidence in product/service.

Let’s say you were building a startup and had to prioritize limited resources on everything that sucked about it. You’re talking to users, tracking various metrics, trying to get people to use it, and your backlog of things you wished you could do is 3+ years long.

You’d build easy sign up before you built easy canceling. Even if you were the least nefarious business owner in the history of the world, the ctime on your signup page would be older than that of the cancel page. Whether it would be 15 minutes, days, or months later is a question, but I doubt anyone has coded their cancel page first.
This is generally because of heave effects (clay rising up after loads being removed for basement excavation), and results in significant raft slabs (as much as 3m thick) and tension piles which can be horrendously expensive.
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Yes - we want this, except that we happen to have an open bug for this at the moment: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/issues/3164 - so it's not working right now.
In the case of a pandemic it is probably pretty good advice, unless you are of the opinion that your authorities are acting against your interest.

The problem with this pandemic is that a lot of people in places of power have made mistakes, sometimes really bad ones (for instance, such as pursuing herd immunity) rather than to follow the WHO expert advice. This could easily be construed as authorities acting against your best interests and in fact in quite a few places people have died that need not have died at all.

But there is a difference between 'political authorities' and 'medical authorities', the WHO has been fairly consistent and sensible in their advice to date, what political authorities locally do with that advice is another matter entirely, that runs the gamut of Bolsonaro to Boris Johnson to Jacinda Ardern and everything in between.
They can't know for sure when two people are watching at the same time on the same device (TV). And if they apply a factor, they can't know that my wife always falls asleep before the halfway mark.
With a meta-analysis, if you detect a high number of fraudulent studies, shouldn’t that negatively affect your trust of the studies which you didn’t detect any problem with?

Let us imagine you looked at 100 papers, and you could tell 99 of them had severe problems, and one looked OK. That information would make you suspicious that the one paper also had severe problems, but that you just didn’t detect the problems.

From article: “We’ve gone from 29 studies to 11, getting rid of 18 along the way. For the record, we eliminated 2/19 for fraud, 1/19 for severe preregistration violations, 10 for methodological problems, and 6 because Dr. Meyerowitz-Katz was suspicious of them.”
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You could probably codegen the .d.ts output of your types into different the body of API responses (or use it to generate a json schema), forking deno for it is probably overkill
Thanos couldn’t have snapped his fingers while wearing the Infinity Glove
Just don't let the tube show a single digit for too long. It would probably wear it out more evenly if you make the numbers "blink", e.g. instead of always showing 3, show "03" by alternating between 0 and 3 with a longer delay after showing 3: 0 .. 3 ... 0 .. 3, etc. (like the bulb clock actually works https://www.daliborfarny.com/product/blub-clock/)
I cannot believe that Visa transaction overhead would be higher than Amex - there's something going on behind the scenes here.

I don't think this is the end of it either, it smells like a negotiation threat. Visa have a larger market share overall (80%, including debit cards [1]) but Mastercard leads in credit cards. Amex has always been fairly niche because it's not accepted everywhere.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116580/payment-card-sch...

> Visa was the largest card issuer in Ireland and the United Kingdom, with market shares of over 80 percent in both countries. (from 2019)

Reading further it does look like most Visa cards are debit cards and Mastercard has the lead in credit cards.

PS: Comment updated after some research.
The benchmarks in question have several implementation issues, I reported them on GitHub.

https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin/issues/created_by/caval...
Extracting Interactions Networks from Twitter Using Twint and Python
How to build an economic model in your spare time
That is because it doesn't ensure that all documents containing all query terms are ranked above with those with a subset (though it can be tuned such that it does).
Read the second comment you are quoting to the end. I think you misread something.
Nope, it's not against the medical misinformation policy.

But that's a fine point in that case. And most people who talk about these studies will violate the policy by a wide margin, rather than doing a well rounded analysis.

You can't deliberately encourage people to take Ivermectin. But JUST citing a study wouldn't do that. Especially not with all the debunking of the other stuff.
If you care about your mothers' health then you shouldn't engage in quackery.

> The way someone gets ivermectin is to walk a doctor through the evidence they've seen and then ask them to prescribe it.

That is factually incorrect, no doctor in their right mind will allow the patients to effectively prescribe their own controversial and in some cases downright dangerous medicine.
>Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence

That simply armchair science blogging psychiatrist's hypothesis. He even admits as much,

>But this theory feels right to me. It feels right to me because it’s the most troll-ish possible solution. Everybody was wrong!

None of the studies looked at worms. It is correlation == causation logical fallacy to conclude this based only on speculation. If you want to start arguing with that approach there is no bottom as there are just as many correlation == causation counter examples like https://i0.wp.com/noqreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/I...

You simply cannot dismiss that Ivermectin only works because worms until you have studies proving that. You can only say that it works, but you're not sure about why. Good to see that even after he cherry picked all the studies as hard as he could, he still had to reach this basic conclusion.
To me what usually burns me is working on places where there's no organization, people ignore feedback. You just spend days working in a stupid, disorganized and unproductive way. Makes you feel like you're working to earn money and do whatever someone ask you to do. It feels pointless.
Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy
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> This is from ivmmeta.com, part of a sprawling empire of big professional-looking sites promoting unorthodox coronavirus treatments. I have no idea who runs it - they’ve very reasonably kept their identity secret

Why are they hiding their identity? That means that it can be anyone who does this.

-----------------

But even more important. The website also claims that each of the following individual medicines works:

Fluvoxamine

Proxalutamide

Iota-carrageenan

Molnupiravir

Quercetin

Povidone-Iodine

Curcumim

Casirivimab

Sotrovimab

Bamlanivimab

Nitazoxanide

Budesonide

Zinc

Bromhexine

Colchicine

Vitamin D

Aspirin

Favipiravir

Hydroxychloroquine

Remdesivir

Vitamin C

I find it unlikely that all those claims are true which in turn makes me question their scientific approach.
To be picky, at least here in Italy, not "send a letter", but rather "send a registered letter with delivery receipt", which plainly means that you have a non-trivial cost (several Euro, I believe in Italy it is now 10 or 12 Euro) and you have to physically go to the post office to send it.

Recently many companies are (finally) allowing to use the PEC (which is a form of Certified Electronic Mail) which has the same legal value as the registered mail, but that the average citizens do not have (unless they have it for other reasons), which however has a (small) yearly cost, but that may be "dangerous" in the sense that it becomes your "legal address" so it needs to be monitored as anything that arrives there has legal value and is considered delivered to you the moment it arrives in the inbox.
tbh I personally think in that episode Jerry Seinfeld illustrated quite well the awkwardness some people feel when discussing race and it was quite ahead of its time.

On one hand he's guilty of everyday racism (and doesn't even notice it) and on the other he tries to be ridiculously cautious to the point of paternalism (avoiding saying "dinner reservations" to a native American).
maybe it was coordinated?
The standard Explorer is already nothing to write home about. But Teams and SharePoint and OneDrive and a dumbed down online version of the Office Suit really kick my ass every day. Worst possible experience. Slow, cumbersome, they fuck around with my files, stripped of features but still bloated. As if they didn't even try to offer something good. It is a lost opportunity. They totally lost their way. Part of my job now is to avoid that misery as much as possible.
TWINT is also an instant payment mechanism in Switzerland.
A good rule is to simply wait. Bad science has a way of being negated over the longer term. But if you want results today you could always try to replicate the experiment (which is one of the reasons why asking scientists to show their data in raw from should be mandatory in my opinion).
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The title makes me think consumption of coffee and tea together leads to higher risk of stroke and dementia. And the conclusion is just opposite.
At least in Germany, having to cancel by sending a letter (or, amusingly, sometimes a fax works) is still common.
It's a sad thing to think about women who were killed for no good reason after suffering a series of miscarriages in probably politically arranged marriages but as royals, this is kind of a live by the sword, die by the sword kind of thing.

All their power came from someone being (at least plausibly) the male heir of a warlord to retain power within their warlord caste. If you can't further that goal for another warlord then you're going to get treated like they treat everyone else that's an obstacle to power.
AFAIK it s super heavy, desktop included. And keep in mind that the vast majority of people who use it use cheap, not high-end android phones. Their web isn't better either, barely usable in a low end desktop. They don't care though, the users keep returning for other reasons so there is no incentive. Only whatsapp seems to be optimized.
Once I was asked to implement a system that applied password rules with a few heuristics. If the password was under 12 characters, then it required numbers, special characters and so on. Over that, it required only a number in it. If you went over 16 (or 18, I don't remember exactly) characters, there were no rules.
The front-end explained how the whole system worked and gave the user tips on how they can make their password more secure, heavily promoting phrases as passwords.
My friend who is still involved in the project told me a few months ago that they send out satisfaction forms to users, and some users mentioned that thanks to the service they now know how to prepare passwords that are safer and easier to remember.
Probably yes? Poorer people do not have assets and their wage isn't as dynamic to keep up with inflation.
Sure. Freezing is usually done to stabilize neighbouring structures.

Extending the piles down to bedrock level was quoted at $500m, so they ditched the idea for this project.
I think this comment answers most of my questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29248306 Can you confirm (PS) this is how it works? From what I understand here, there are "shadow servers", replicating from the production traffic.

If so, this is cool. I still see some caveats:

* One already mentioned, the scope of migrations is limited to those where both old and new DDL are compatible with the currently running application. If this is the case, I believe it should be clearly advertised as such.

* Being the migration asynchronous, I lose control of when to deploy changes to the application. Even a hook would go a long way, to trigger this.

* Not knowing exactly then the cut-over process is going to happen is also potentially a problem. I understand the cut-over may involve performance degradation (e.g. higher latency) or even connection loss (may you also confirm PS how it is performed?) during some period of time, possibly small. But still, I may need to plan a small maintenance window. But if this is async, I cannot plan the window appropriately.

Neither of this takes away any merits from the solution.
This is what I was referring to the knowledge cliff.

Gradle is incomprehensible until it isn't. It has a very steep but short learning curve and understanding is completely binary. It's very unfortunate but it is how it is.

I still take it over the JS stuff but I do acknowledge it's shortcomings. I also don't do Android development so I don't know if it's particularly bad there.
If this is a negotiation tactic, why is it not a global proposal?

Perhaps because bank transfer is very developed in the UK, and wire transfers could totally replace credit cards, with lower fees?

On mobile devices, the effort to set up a wire transfer or direct debit is only maybe 1 minute for most users, and that's a one time thing, and unlike credit cards they don't expire either. Fees for the use of the system are effectively nil.
I just expect these tactics from periodicals these days. Last time I signed up to one (The Economist) I used a pre-paid debit card for this very reason.

Sure enough, they eventually gave me a reason to cancel (popup modals over their online articles for paying customers) and I just emptied the card and sent an email to their customer service saying "I hereby cancel my subscription; you are no longer authorized to charge my card".

Can't refuse to cancel me if I have no money taps temple
Wouldn't this disadvantage colorblind people significantly?
What you described is a de-facto 'now` situation. In 3-5 years, basically everyone who travesl planes will have replaced theirs with wireless charing ones, if they haven't done so already.

> and they have bad efficiency (which effects fuel usage).

Compared to the amount of energy jet engine consumes each second, a loss on wirelessly charging ~100 phones is really just a joke in comparison: 2500mAh * 3.7 volt * 100 = 925Wh. With, conservatively, 60% efficiency of wireless Qi chargers, that's a 370Wh loss. Not even half a kilowatt-hour.

A 787 plane uses 7000 liters of jet fuel, for a total of 490,000 KWh during a 7 hour flight. (https://www.quora.com/How-many-kilowatt-hours-of-energy-does...)

So charging those phones wirelessly increases the amount of fuel consumed by 0.37/490.000 = 0.00007551020408%

If 1 liter of jet fuel currently costs $0.611, that's $0.61170000.000075551=$0.32 cents.

32 US cents. That's the cost of the increased fuel usage.
Depends on what would be the supposed cause of the fraud? What would be the motivations?
That just requires one, mostly fixed, version of Python. It's a system dependency, not something the end users of the distro should be concerned with.
Are you suggesting that we didn't adopt his methods?
> However I think he misrepresent some anti-vaxxers: it's not a matter of trusting science, it's a matter of trusting scientists with heavy conflict of interest to tell the truth while most of us don't have the required scientific knowledge to evaluate if they're telling the truth.

That's an excellent point - unfortunately people who are easily labeled as "anti-vaxxers" and perceived as uneducated anti-scince crowd quite often happen to be the people who just don't digest unsubstantiated narratives easily, which actually is a right way to listen to people and companies with potential conflict of interest.

A number of people (myself included) would perhaps pay less attention to ivermectin as in covid drug if crowd would really take it and do studies instead of just publicly mocking people who are trying to look into it. That attitude makes people think there is an agenda behind and big pharma revenues makes all of us think it's not entirely untrue.

Regrettably a lot of people related to science forget that science is not a blind belief in authority but actually quite the opposite - question authority in everything.