skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sometimes these people even have a specific theory for why elites are covering up ivermectin, like that pharma companies want you to use more expensive patented drugs instead. This theory is extremely plausible. Pharma companies are always trying to convince people to use expensive patented drugs instead of equally good generic alternatives. Ivermectin believers probably heard about this from the many, many good articles by responsible news outlets, discussing the many, many times pharma companies have tried to trick people into using more expensive patented medications. Like this ACSH article about Nexium. Or my article on esketamine. Given that dozens of studies said a drug worked, and elites continued to deny it worked, and there are well-known times where elites lie about drugs in order to make money, it was an incredibly reasonable inference that this was one of those times.

If you have a lot of experience with pharma, you know who lies and who doesn’t, and you know what lies they’re willing to tell and which ones they shrink back from. As far as I know, no reputable scientist has ever come out and said ‘esketamine definitely works better than regular ketamine’. The regulatory system just heavily implied it."
From nuclear power, to card payments, to online shopping - Germany is extremely conservative with regards to modern technology.
Personally couldn't disagree more.

"High mental activity guided by will power" sounds like a fantastic foundation for any role and my ideal.

There is a place for manual labour (been there, done that), and both can work.

People are burned out due to understaffing and/or misallocation of resources.

This is intensely acute for some right now due to the chips falling back down to earth while people adjust to pre-post-pandemic.
I've recieved an email from Amazon.co.uk about it as well. Although I can only go by the subject "Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022". My email preferences on Amazon are set to text only, and the text only email has no useful content beyond my name and generic headers / footers.
I think it would be a shame for every website to look the same. Not all information is textual - we’re visual creatures and a lot of meaning can be conveyed through color, layout, font choices etc.
The profit motive has no bearing on whether or not vaccines work.
This is extremely reasonable and civilized. Would you say that the rest of the legislation in Portugal is consistent, and the direction of the Country is towards good sense and reliability?

I have noticed of other EU countries that a response against abuse may exist, but severely delayed and only partial (e.g. about sale of misrepresented services and other contractual scams, especially when carried out over the phone).
I once had a paper/digital subscription, and at some point I had cancelled the card linked to it. Unbeknownst to me (my parents were receiving the subscription), they had kept sending the paper despite the card being cancelled. When NYT eventually realized the card had been cancelled, they claimed that I owed them for the ~year or so that I had been receiving the paper after the card was cancelled, and attempted to send this to collections.

Completely outrageous business practices if you ask me.
I wonder if YouTube would have been better to implement a no medical advice policy. Not a no advice which runs contrary to the official guidelines policy.
Interesting, I'm generally quite sensitive to small delays when typing/seeing autocomplete, but this hasn't been much of an issue for me, even in VSCode. But maybe that's because I only enable extensions on a per-workspace basis.

Regarding build times, have you tried using esbuild (https://esbuild.github.io)? It's ridiculously fast.

vitejs uses it in their dev mode (https://vitejs.dev) if you wanna give it a shot without spending too much time fiddling with configuration.
Presumably confusion between debit (where Visa is common) and credit (where it isn't).
Yeah, but try to cancel an internet subscription here in Sweden…
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They're not proper vaccines, and those injections are killing and injuring a lot of people.
https://www.skirsch.com/covid/All.pdf
https://rumble.com/vnbv86-winning-the-war-against-therapeuti...

If by oral treatment you're talking about Pfizer's drug, it works the same way ivermectin does, except not as effectively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufy2AweXRkc

As of now, I don't see a single mention of protease in either the article, or this HN thread.
I think it's as simple as: Emacs is like VS Code, IntelliJ is like Visual Studio.

JetBrains makes great IDEs, and you should use them if you're working on a large project that one of those IDEs is geared towards. It'd take a lot of work to get any other editor to have the same feature-set and organization of workspace.

Emacs is a general-purpose environment for writing, and you should use it if you want a specific flow for writing code, or anything else. You can setup plugins so that it's like a mini IDE for most of the languages you write in, and you can setup plugins to modify the organization of your workspace. You want tabs? Add them. You want a tree view of your current project folder? Add one. You want Vim-style editing? Enable it. Etc.

Right now it seems everyone is looking for a code editor that is extensible and fast - Emacs fits that bill better than VS Code (also Neovim might end up being even better!), but it's more difficult to get it right. That's why there are projects like Spacemacs and Doom Emacs to make adding/removing plugins easier, and also have a good setup out of the box.
I live in Germany and have cancelled several physical magazine and newspaper subscriptions and even political party memberships via e-mail after signing up online. I can't say anything about Der Spiegel but I would be surprised if they did it any different given that German consumer protection agencies have some teeth.
Have you noticed the hundreds of thousands of totally destitute people flowing over the border, and becoming successful in America? According to your philosophy, that should be impossible.
The people that have created these devices never claimed that they can be used for any useful computation, neither did the people you are talking to here. However, these technology demonstrators do show a programmable computation (sampling from a particular probability distribution) that is infeasible on anything but a supercomputer and becomes just impossible once you add a couple more qubits.

Sure, we do believe these devices, when made more reliable, will also do "useful" computations that are infeasible on supercomputers, but we are aware that we need to build the devices first in order to convince you.

9 orders is the difference between a few dollars and a billion dollars.
Any recommendations for services that provide good content? In Hungary, we have a few which function more like libraries. You can find virtually any Hungarian film and watch it easily. But they're mostly limited to Hungarian content.
I'm the same, except the YouTube.

I just love information, so I watch a lot of documentaries.

Outside of the top shelf of TV (Sopranos, Wire, Succession) it's all incredibly formulaic and boring.
Well that's annoying. My bank (Natwest) just recently sent me a letter to boast we're getting shiny new VISA credit cards to replace our existing Mastercards. (which aren't near expiry)
At least the npm packages outside their telemetry horizon should be updated immediately.
Fuck New York Times, I had to go through this chaos once and promised to never ever use any of their services ever again. I even went to the pain of making sure all my ad blockers were in full force when visiting the NYT. I developed a strong sense of hatred after realize what kind of slimy tactics they used to stop you from cancelling a subscription.

One day, I found a loophole. I would email them requesting a cancellation for my record and initiated a chargeback against them via my credit card company. I had no hopes of getting the money back, but then I also had evidence that I tried to reach out to them via calls and emails to make them cancel my subscription and the chargeback went through and I got a full refund. I really enjoyed that feeling knowing that the NYT lost more than they made from me as for every chargeback, the credit card company would penalize the merchant with a fixed fee - usually anywhere from $20 to $50 per chargeback if I'm not wrong.

I wish all those who had been scammed by NYT raises a chargeback and burn them to the ground. God, I never realized how passionately I could hate a company like this.
> most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large purchases

Huh? I'm in the UK, have been an Amazon customer for over 20 years and have always used a credit card for everything. I didn't even know you could use a debit card, and can't see any reason you'd want to. Paid off in full every month, better consumer protection, what's not to like?
I avoid Asus due to how often they use Broadcom chips and lack OpenWrt support.
On the ARPANET (the original one running the NCP protocol), not only didn't you need a special protocol to have an online chat with somebody at the other end of the country, you didn't even need a host or a talk daemon running on a server!

From an earlier post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519489

NBS TIP: 301-948-3850

I dialed it enough times that I still remember it. Much thanks to Bruce of "Bruce's NorthStar" BBS in Virginia for that phone number. [1]

MIT-MC: @L 236

MIT-AI: @L 134

MIT-DM: @L 70

MIT-ML: @L 198

Anyone remember how to do a TIP-to-TIP link, as documented on page 5-4 of the "Users Guide to the Terminal IMP" [2], by connecting an input and output socket of one TIP to an input and output socket of another TIP, through an unsuspecting host, so you could chat back and forth directly between two TIP dial-ups, without actually logging into the host?

It went something like @HOST #, @SEND TO SOCKET #, @RECEIVE FROM SOCKET #, @PROTOCOL BOTH, making sure the sockets were different parity so as not to violate the Anita Bryant clause with homosocketuality. [3]

You could also add the octal device port number of any other TIP user on your same TIP after the @ and before the command, to execute those commands on their session. (See page 5-7, "Setting Another Terminal's Parameters".) BBN wrote such great documentation and would mail copies of it for free to anyone who asked (that's how I got mine), you couldn't even call it security by obscurity!

The "ARPANET" episode of "The Americans" really missed the boat about how easy it was to break into the ARPANET. I didn't even have to kill anyone! [3] [4] Makes me wonder about the part about squeezing your anus... [5]

What was your uname?

-A2DEH

[1] https://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=242967&cid=196819...

[2] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_bbntipADA0eTerminalIMP...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422813

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet_(The_Americans)

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVth6T3gMa0

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3OMSMq9zPA
How a website works, for new-to-tech and tech-adjacent people
Presumably Amazon have some stats of how frequently each type of card is used on their platform, even if that's just aggregation done on the first 4 digits of the card number.

They are probably well placed to determine how many customers use Visa with them versus Mastercard, or even have both and use both on the website. The subset who have only ever used Visa on Amazon may or may not have an alternative card they could use, but they will presumably have factored in the cost of potentially losing the sale entirely as a result of refusing Visa.

With Visa so entrenched in UK finance, it's not going to be received by customers the same way as Amex being refused (let's face it, Amex is refused most places because the only people who use it do so because they are getting cashback which is paid for by the merchant having increased fees). Instead, Visa will be the card they've always used, so if Amazon stop accepting it, I think a lot of customers will just shop elsewhere instead.
THIS. I am thinking that I can finally cancel my nytimes subscription^^

I mean, I really appreciate the articles but I haven't been able to follow as closely as I wanted.
I immediately instructed my bank to block the upcoming payments and on the renewal day the subscription was cancelled. This is pretty much a flow of their cancellation.
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The part that made sure the user could update the package could have at least check if the payload is about that package before passing it to the service that trusted it.
You can send a signed letter and that should be legal proof
You hand that info to the merchant because your credit card company can issue chargebacks against them and that costs them a pretty penny with their payment processor, especially if it happens often. Credit card disputes almost always slant in favor of the customer.

Folks just don't seem to realize: you make a reasonable effort with the vendor, and then go straight to your credit card company.

I caught a restaurant "helping" themselves to a very healthy tip for delivery; I'd tipped in cash. The owner repeatedly professed that he didn't know how to issue a refund and offered cash.

He was playing stupid because he didn't want to deal with the transaction fee, nor did he want a paper trail of his fraud; I strongly suspect he was doing this to other people, too. Warned him three times and three times he said, gosh, he had no idea how to issue a refund to my card.

I asked for just the fraudulent tip back and my credit card company reversed the entire charge. So not only did he lose the tip, he lost the cost of the food and he got dinged with a chargeback fee. He also lost my weekly pizza order.
I agree with both of you. We can't 100% argue that the prevailing wisdom is infallible because of real examples of the opposite occurring rarely, like the ulcer case. However, on the balance I prefer to go with prevailing wisdom. It's a judgement call that requires a human to detail with probabilities and humans are very bad at probabilities.
Agreed that there is a lot of ego involved, and that certainly doesn't help. In NL we have a couple of nice examples of that.

Pursuing herd immunity is a viable strategy only if you can actually achieve it.

Sweden has done far worse than their neighbors in this respect. But given the fact that it drags on all you can say is that as long as we don't treat this as a global problem your local measures matter less than you think.

Countries that did fantastically well early on showed it could be done, but because they were the exception eventually they too became overwhelmed through imported cases. If that had not happened, which would have required a more synchronized approach, then the total damage would be a fraction of what it is today.

And this isn't over yet, not by far and it is a much harder problem now than it was in March last year.
I very nearly threw up my hands when writing an Elm parser combinator. The idea is great but the documentation and lack of advanced examples turned a day of effort into weeks. I just wanted to go back to Regexes.
You can instruct your bank to stop the direct debit payments and they'll cancel your subscription.
These days you can cancel yourself via myaccount.nytimes.com.

Go to Subscription overview, and at the very bottom click "Cancel your subscription".

You can also use this to get a better deal. Just start the cancellation, choose "My subscription is too expensive" as reason, click Continue a couple of times and they'll give you a reduced rate to keep you. I now pay 2 euros a month for a digital subscription.
German law knows “Dauerschuldverhältnis” (permanent indebtedness). If you don’t cancel the contract and just cease payment, the other party can obtain title against you, and eventually impound you.
And of course whether parasites can adapt to become resistant (?) to the treatments.
Same here, thought I thought was being scammed but everyone else in my family got letters saying that their cards are moving to Mastercard debit in the coming months. I doubt Visa will have much marketshare even in the debit card market by the end of next year.
This exactly is why every year I think about subscribing to some expensive (for me) journal, then google horror stories about unsubscribing and abandon this idea.

Some people above mentioned inconvenient work hours when calling to unsub, but it's not only that. International subscribers must also pay to simply call another country. If will be put on hold for tens of minutes or more, then the price of that call will easily be more than annual sub price.

I suspect that even if FTC will change something in US, international subscribers will still be left out, because this is what usually happens in such cases.
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK
Barclaycard was the most popular credit card in the UK at one point and they have ten million customers. As far as I know, they only offer visa credit cards.
Right, they strongarm each other, then collude and together strongarm the rest of the market.
OpenWrt is a nightmare to update due to the space constraints. A more traditional distro can just be updated via the usual package manager commands. I believe OpenWrt expects you to back up configs and reimage the whole thing.
While not nationalized or regulated, Poland is an interesting example with its ubiquitous application of BLIK, a bottom-up initiative of major Polish banks:

https://blik.com/en

https://thepaypers.com/thought-leader-insights/blik-and-the-...

"(...) at the end of 2020 BLIK overtook payment cards in terms of the number of transactions made in global ecommerce (Polish and foreign) for the first time."

You can use it everywhere: from your local convenience store to Uber or Amazon Poland. It's also a Polish Venmo, or rather Zelle, where you can send money p2p using a phone number.

They are now experimenting with contactless payments, as well as trying to integrate with international online payment systems, and if those are a success, the future of Visa/Mastercard in Poland is rather... complicated.

And if Poland continues to be the predicting greenfield it was so far for FinTech, the decentralized, national solutions like these are likely to largely displace the 3rd parties of Visa/Mastercard/Amex alike.

That having said, one of BLIK's board members is the Mastercard CEE country manager, so... looks like they do anticipate that change.
I'm not talking about the vaccines in this context. The discussion is a lot more nuanced than that.
I had less trouble back when I was not working for a few years. Switching jobs is a yellow flag in itself. And often people want to hire someone yesterday, so they're not so willing to hire someone who needs a notice period.

Portfolios are still useful, but they don't get you past the resume screen, only the latter screening processes.

Web tech is in very high demand, so you should have little problem in an average company, at least something better than a non-profit.
IMO you should ditch enums (just use union types 'value1' | 'value2' etc...) and stick to writing "statically typed javascript". You'll get enough value from it.

Incomplete and (very) biased list of why I find this approach useful:

- Amazing static analysis capabilities

- Being able to design the code by writing types first and just filling the gaps between them

- Less code which needs to be covered with unit tests

- Autocomplete for any 3rd party library (e.g. AWS, or try spiking some backend code with Contentful and navigating their data structures, it's sooo much easier once you describe your models using TS)

- Less thinking about "how" and more about "what" I want to build

- Still reads like JS so the barrier of entry for colleagues is easy

I'm not a big fan of interfaces, but I understand why they exist (declaration merging/patching mutable JS scopes/objects).

Edit: I just realised that I got overly excited and perhaps went too broad with the list of pros, but hope this is still useful. The official TS documentation says that you should default to interfaces instead of types, but the approach that worked really well for me is to start with types and use interfaces only when really necessary. Somehow this model fits better in my head, but that's maybe because my coding style is more functional than OOP.
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There are probably many other factors that I should have listed there, my bad, I did not mean to make an exhaustive list, in fact the opposite, that's the first two things that came to mind.
https://teachyourselfcs.com/

edit: worked for me. Went from working as a Mech Eng with degrees in mechanical engineering & econometrics to software engineering. Also very similar to yourself re: startup experience.

Good luck!
This isn't "Europe", it's Germany. Germany is still well known for using fax for government and corporate communication, and there was heavy criticism for how the Covid pandemic was initially handled because faxing records was so common which meant they could not be easily digitized, collected and searched.

In Sweden, sending a fax or physical letter to a government instance or private companies rather than an e-mail is more or less unheard of, unless they for some reason need a physical paper with your signature on it (I've heard this happen with customs, for example), but in almost all areas of society this has now also been replaced with Bank-ID, which is digital.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
> 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.

But you don't have to trust only scientists directly or indirectly employed by those companies. There are plenty of subject-matter experts who work for competitors or are tenured in academia who would have very little to lose from criticising the rollout.
Related, I recently published https://github.com/gajus/liqe, although not 600 lines of code
In general, TypeScript allows us to write code without worrying about run-time validation — if something says it's a string, we can trust it to be a string. However, this assumption falls apart at the edges between our typed and our untyped code. This is why we left in propTypes in our React style guide components, even though they were made redundant by TypeScript's own types.

Can you elaborate a bit more about what sorts of type-guards and run-time validation functions you're thinking about? The only type-guards we somewhat generate are the ones Redux Toolkit makes for all of its actions, but aside from that, we only really use type guards when we're interfacing with a 3rd party API or something.
To be fair, that’s precisely what Electron is, and Microsoft now uses it heavily.

Mind you, they’re using Electron because they couldn’t make a .NET GUI framework live for more than two years.

MAUI is due to die around 2025, mark my words.
Germany operates on way more paper systems than the US though
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I'm not convinced that this is a genuine email. Maybe someone here can explore..
Stripe can be a good enforcer of this. A lot of banking accounts opened online refuse to close the same way too.