skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most scientists/doctors believe it to not work against Covid-19" wasn't a serious argument for you?

It is a strange phenomenon that people are so ready to disagree with people who spent decades achieving exactly that kind of knowledge.
Long-Term Thinking
>fruity i associate with citric acid.

Minor exception: "Exotic" fruits like mango or pineapple may mean there are fermentation flavors present, e.g. with naturally processed beans (vs washed process).

Good introduction by James Hoffmann: https://youtu.be/O9YnLFrM7Fs (decoding descriptions starts at 12:53)
I think the only wireless 'full cans' I've tried are beats which I don't like the sound profile of anyway. Also larger battery surely will decrease the comfort from its weight?

However I keep my ears open :)
This is what people mean when they talk about 'ghosting' other people online.
It's important to keep the problem definition stage entirely separate from the solution definition.

I do like you but on an iPad. I'll just sit down in a quiet place and think on "paper" until I have a good idea of where to start. I'll usually make a few quick and dirty mockups with Notability, and then get started.
Red and *violet ends. But why do purple and violet look the same?
https://jmap.io/
This article doesn’t provide much substance, other than listing directors that were Catholic and a rouge Agent who also happened to be Catholic. I was expecting a revelation but sadly this just seems like a clickbait title at worst, and a brief history of leadership affiliations at best.
To be accurate it is not that you have to have content in Catalan (although that seems to be the _main_ purpose of the sponsored TLD) but you have to "be a part of the Catalan
Linguistic and Cultural Community" as set forth in the registry agreement between ICANN and domini.cat [0]

[0] (go to specification 12) https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/cat/c...
The Future of DevOps
Yeah, the Hammurabi Code…
Oh, I would love to work on hard problems 8h a day. Or with people that do that. Reality is, and basically was since I started my career 15+ years ago, that we have north of 6 h per day in pointless meetings and politics. With some admin work for documentation thrown in for good measure.
It got political, but he still doesn't capture the gist and whole of the argument. You cannot argue against an imaginary position which he still espouses. There are just democrats and conservatives for him. That is a deep socialization which depending on age might be a permanent affliction.

But that isn't reflective of every position against a vaccination (or additional measures), it is more the explanation of a naive child. There are millions of reasons that could drive people to not play along:

- Don't trust doctors

- Don't trust politicians

- Don't trust media

- Has environment that shares the same opinions, difficult to go against the grain

- There a doctors critical of methods like lockdown and even the vaccine itself

- There a doctors that warned against vaccinating within a pandemic and their predictions became true to a degree

- Countries that didn't lock down came decently through the pandemic if they had otherwise good healthcare

- We combine vaccination with secondary measures like passes and mandatory health controls

- Covid is endemic and you will get it anyway, we still see different rules for vaccinated/unvaccinated people

- There are people unreasonably afraid of Covid

- People throw away liberties for questionable safety and will still end up getting Covid in the end

- ...

Most of it is indeed a trust issue, but the problem is that there are currently few people in the public sphere that deserve that trust. I am vaccinated, I make this statement because there are fearful people that demand that you justify yourself. I am not really inclined to accommodate them, there is a saying that "the smarter one gives in" and this is clearly a case like that.

Ivermectin wouldn't be the wonder cure, if criticism of it would be more analyzed in a way the author did. It is a good step. This is getting to a principled discussion if you just ban other voices.
They study states that is is controlled for income, along with a host of other confounding factors.
Those high tower are just nonsense, from a human and an ecological point of vue, especially for residential buildings.
New buildings, should have no more than six floors
I do exactly this - I budget for 2 simultaneous streaming subs and then just cancel one and resub another when I get bored or want to watch something on a diff service.

Tangentially, I still prefer Netflix solely based on viewing experience for web and mobile. The other services all have super awkward tradeoffs or issues.
That literally isn't an argument. It is a statement.

And if anyone who said "many scientists/doctors believe it to work against Covid-19" is getting banned, then that statement has 0 signal.

As Scott points out in this article, without knowing about the parasitic worm situation https://ivmmeta.com/ is both reasonable and moderately convincing.
To do this you need uncountable turing machines, and that set isnt a computable function.

Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional and real-valued.

QM says that there is no `rand(seed)`, rather there is only `rand()` that is what "no hidden variables" means.

If you want to do `rand(s) forall s`, that "forall" requires real numbers -- and then you're out-of-luck on computability.
Because it's 12.6GB compressed! That's just too large to deploy. I want a much smaller part. And I would prefer the actual passwords because I think they could be compressed much better than the (essentially random) hashes.
Life is beautiful is a similar movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/
UAE a go-to offshore tax haven for Africa's political and biz elite
This is amazing, but by the end they seem to gloss that some power is needed at the tx side to produce the modulation clock and perform switching the resistor.
What do you know about the complexity of the Spotify app?
And I would add that there are now two drugs who are known to work better, in addition to monoclonal antibodies and multiple vaccines with more than 7 billion doses administered for over a year...

Ivermectin MIGHT work... but really... let's move on.
"This site uses features not available on older iPhones" wtf
Carbon Footprint Calculator for Green Cloud Computing
This has become a meta-debate, but I'd argue that the burden of proof is on anyone who wants something. If the thing you want is to get to the bottom of a question, then it's your own desire which has imposed that burden on you.

If you want something, it would be a shame if you didn't get it because an internet proponent failed to detail their arguments.
I was messing around with servers that had a finger server running a few days ago. I think the university of Wisconsin has a finger server running that exposes the name/address for all their faculty and students
Do you have statistics on that or you are speculating from your own experience?

If the second I would say I’m very likely to turn off movies at 10 minutes in. That is the point where I realise that a movie is not what I imagined it to be, or that I’m not feeling like watching something after all. That being said maybe I’m the odd one out so I can’t say what masses of people actually do.
We have multiple vaccines and two (EUA) proven oral treatments now.
> I'd be curious to know if viewing hours per user is correlated with total subscriptions.

It is. Their main metric is viewing hours because it's a really good proxy for whether someone will continue their subscription.
James Hoffman has a video about tasting coffee for yourself. Basically looking at acidity / bitterness / body / strength / sweetness. Rating out of 5 kinda things. Always comparison based and
using cupping. (I have not done it yet but I’m going to treat myself to some barista training. It’s actually very affordable thing to do)

Then pick out any comparisons that come to mind but don’t think too hard about “is it a strawberry or raspberry”. Doesn’t matter. Whatever comes to mind. I can’t even pick fruits is just think “acidic, sweet”

The purpose, rather than to sound sophisticated is to get an idea of what coffee you like.

For me a dark roast and chuck in some milk can’t be beaten, but it’s interesting trying the fruity stuff. And when I say fruity … it ain’t subtle like wine. Some coffees taste like tea!
As someone who knows Rust besides several other "powerful" languages, I'd say it sounds more like Crystal now. Many of the benefits of Rust while also having a significant higher productivity.

It's a tradeoff: less use cases (garbage collection rules out some stuff), smaller ecosystem (albeit one can use ruby code as-is or with little modifications), concurrency-but-no-official-parallelism. The benefits: drastically higher expressiveness, terseness and big stdlib.

From idea to production, given good knowledge in either tech: Crystal is way faster to ship things. Only after many months/years into the project and multiple teams involved Rust might catch up.... but this is not the scenario PG speaks of, right?

... or maybe I am just an old Ruby fart and Crystal matches the way I think perfectly.
This is the first anti-Ivermectin argument that you want to believe, but there have been many serious anti-Ivermectin arguments in the past. It's just that you don't have the background knowledge to digest them, but that doesn't stop you from wanting to believe that there is some kind of miracle cure that 'they' are suppressing.

Now consider that this is just one example of a class of such issues and that there is an enormous echo chamber for such bullshit which extends right into hackernews.

The way it works:

- posit some bullshit miracle cure

- recruit useful idiots to help promote the issue, sow division

- downplay all of the arguments against, make it seem like it is the establishment that does this

- eventually, give up and move on to the next miracle cure

- go back to step one

It is interesting to see that it is the same people that over-and-over-again allow themselves to be recruited like this. Note that you were making 'pro-Ivermectin comments just yesterday' without knowing what you are talking about.

Why were you making those comments?

What were you trying to achieve by amplifying something that made no sense?

Don't you feel any responsibility for pushing such stories when the end result can be that people end up harming themselves or others on account of this?
Interesting read, I appreciate that the author isn't dogmatic and is open to discussion.

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.

Pfizer and Moderna combined are making more than $1000 every second (stop and calculate how much money that makes for a year, that's mind boggling). Do they have an incentive to lie?

The fact that the discussion is immediately shut down and doubt isn't allowed is a big red flag. Let me quote the author:

> Here this question is especially tough, because, uh, if you say anything in favor of ivermectin you will be cast out of civilization and thrown into the circle of social hell reserved for Klan members and 1/6 insurrectionists. All the health officials in the world will shout “horse dewormer!” at you and compare you to Josef Mengele. But good doctors aren’t supposed to care about such things. Your only goal is to save your patient. Nothing else matters.

He's funny, but the underlying reality is very sad.

Add to this the power grab by politicians toward totalitarianism, color me very skeptical about the situation.
Yeah, 4.2 BSD fingerd was calling "gets" to read the name of who you were fingering into a small fixed size buffer on the stack.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/gets.3.html

Chris Torek had hacked our version of fingerd (running on mimsy.umd.edu and its other Vax friends brillig, tove, and gyre) to implement logging, and while he was doing that, he noticed the fixed size buffer, and thoughtfully increased the size of the buffer a bit. Still a fixed size buffer using gets, but at least it was a big enough buffer to mitigate the attack, although the worm got in via sendmail anyway. And we had a nice log of all the attempted fingerd attacks!

The sendmail attack simply sent the "DEBUG" command to sendmail, which, being enabled by default, let you right in to where you could escape to a shell.

Immediately after the attack, "some random guy on the internet" suggested mitigating the sendmail DEBUG attack by editing your sendmail binary (Emacs hackers can do that easily of course, but vi losers had to suck eggs!), searching for the string "DEBUG", and replacing the "D" with a null character, thus disabling the "DEBUG" command.

But unfortunately that cute little hack didn't actually disable the "DEBUG" command: it just renamed the "DEBUG" command to the "" command! Which stopped the Morris worm on purpose, but not me by accident:

I found that out the day after the worm hit, when I routinely needed to check some bouncing email addresses on a mailing list I ran, so I went "telnet sun.com 80" and hit return a couple times like I usually do to clear out the telnet protocol negotiation characters, before sending an "EXPN" command. And the response to the "EXPN" command was a whole flurry of debugging information, since the second newline I sent activated debug mode by entering a blank line!

So I sent a friendly email to postmaster@sun.com reporting the enormous security hole they had introduced by patching the other enormous security hole.

You'd think that the Long Haired Dope Smoking Unix Wizards running the email system at sun.com wouldn't just apply random security patches from "some random guy on the internet" without thinking about the implications, but they did!
fun (sad?) fact: Ivermectin is sold out in pharmacies in Upper Austria.

https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/entwurmungsmittel...
Not worth it.

Those addresses will never actually work globally. Not really. Che long tail in really long.

And they buy what, two months?

Years ago the rate was one /8 per three months IIRC.

Also I've seen those addresses used in Telco gear.
That's the point. As long as I'm lucid I should have full bodily autonomy, including the decision to shuffle off this mortal coil. In fact I already have control over this decision.

> and there are forces in society

So? You're going to tell me I can't go anytime I want to? That's not the case even now. It's just that now I'd have to procure the nitrogen myself (which isn't difficult), and my relatives would have to deal with the body. I'm merely suggesting a service that resolves this purely logistical complication, and excludes the possibility of not quite dying but living the rest of one's life as a vegetable.

Think of what we have now: people spend years, sometimes decades suffering from chronic diseases, or just plain not having anything or anyone to live for. And it'll get worse as medicine "improves", and lifespans "improve" with it. Is it humane to withhold the option to end it all from them? I don't think it is. I will grant you that there are likely tens of millions of such people on the planet right now. I will also grant that this is not an uncontroversial thing to suggest. But the alternative we have now doesn't seem any more humane or dignified to me.

If this still doesn't sit right with people, we could age and condition-restrict it, or require a long waiting period for when this is not related to acute incurable disease.

> as with the death penalty

Which is also inhumane, IMO. It's much worse to spend the rest of one's days in confinement instead of 30 seconds until barbiturates kick in. That's what the sadists who are against the death penalty are counting on.
Hopefully this kills the ridiculous trend to write all functional, reactive Java apps by providing a normal way to do non-blocking API calls...amazing news!
From what I can see, the research method is quite flawed.

What if drinking more coffee or tea makes you die younger? This would result in the same data they base their conclusions on.

E.g. dementia en strokes correlate with age. If you die young because of high coffee consumption you wouldn't show up in the "drank coffee and subsequently had a stroke" group.
Yes, I know it's not important to Netflix and it's why the report total hours. But it's important to the rest of the industry, which is why I think it would be interesting. And someone on the outside can figure it out, because with the total hours shown on this page, they can normalize it themselves since the run times of each show are public.
Essential needs: fun,
Freedom, friendship, power and purpose.

Different people have them in different amounts and ways. But everyone has these.
Honestly, we've solved them, but we've solved them with unsustainable methods.

For example, modern large scale farming is pretty harmful and is destroying top soil and striping soil of important nutrients. But we all like to run around saying, "automated", and it mostly is, but it comes at a cost.
It costs significantly more to defend your trademark. Registering your trademark is pointless if you can't also defend it.
And when Sitchin was translating the old sumerian texts no one believed in anunnaki. Yet here we are.
I've been writing Javascript for twenty-six years, seventeen professionally, and Typescript since 2017. No one has ever in my experience made the claim that Typescript solves all, or even really any, of the concerns you list. That when well used it can make them easier to solve, sure, and that's true. It comes in exchange for a little more effort, that's also true, but I've found that tradeoff considerably beneficial on net, because the type system when used thoughtfully makes whole classes of bugs harder to write, and their virtuous complements easier.

If people are saying the type system is a magic bullet, the problem is with that claim and the people making it, not with the type system.
all the big corporations took one of the coreutils and made a it by translating the concept to 'the internet'. Twitter got finger ;-)
I'm like this. Not just in a commercial context, but also at home with pet projects. I go through phases of being extremely creative with things I come up with, for about 2 or 3 days, then I go back to normal for about 30 to 60 days before I get to that state again. Luckily I've been able to notice this behavioural quirk so I try to code/write as much as possible down to use as building block to use on my "boring" days, but sometimes it feels like I cannot remember doing it or it was a different person doing it, kinda baffling to be honest.

During the bursty periods, it affects both my creativity and the amount of work I output. I haven't found a way to trigger/force myself into this state yet. I've tried different sleeping patterns, food, sex, drugs & caffeine, different kinds of music etc, to no effect. Music has come the closest to getting me to that feeling/state.

Anyone else have more things to try?
Working here as a software engineer, remote. I usually spend 2-3 hours a day doing something with my hands now, outside in the sun, working out, gardening, farming. I've decided that if I couldn't do it anymore, I'd quit my job.

I just bought an old house and I spend hours on it, working on shelves, building new floors etc, it's absolutely paradise.
Scientists reveal ‘Jennifer Aniston neuron’
Free Will Belief as a Consequence of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
This article doesn't move the needle at all for those that have a basic understanding of the mechanisms at work and who don't fall for the first conspiracy theory that gets lobbed their way.

What you should do instead is to listen to your medical authorities who even if they do make mistakes have your best interests at heart, contrary to those that are pushing the quackery in an attempt to further destabilize our societies. You made yourself a willing collaborator in that, something to think about.
> This is the first anti-Ivermectin argument that you want to believe...

I discounted a highly biased echo chamber in social media and more traditional media and went with 30-odd studies that appear to have been assembled in good faith even now. I changed my mind immediately on seeing "Parasitic worms are a significant confounder in some ivermectin studies, such that they made them get a positive result even when honest and methodologically sound: 50% confidence".

You are describing how you want me to be thinking, not how I am thinking.
You are implicitly dealing with a logarithm whether you say so or not. An angle measure is a logarithm. It’s a way of taking a naturally multiplicative concept (composition of rotations) and making a change of variables to convert multiplication to addition.

And note that an "angle" and an "angle measure" are two separate concepts.

> finitely compute any rational angle

Sure, we can calculate specific logarithms without a formal definition as a function over a continuous domain, based on some stated rules for formal manipulation, taken as axioms. Not just rotations, but also scalar logarithms. For example, we can precisely calculate the logarithm base 2 for any arbitrary rational power of 2: log₂ 2^(p/q) = p/q.

A "rational angle" is nothing but a rational power of –1: Arg (-1)^(p/q) ≡ (p/q)π (mod 2π)
Looks like npm is a very troubled asset for MS, which could easily turn into liability.
What is functional programming without a type system.
> No, pyenv is not the answer. Naming things is.

In my experience, Pyenv is almost never the answer.
Exec suing AWS: “I wouldn't want my worst enemy working there”
This kinda hits home for me. I used to enjoy video games a lot before.

Now I play them in autopilot mode. Just enough engagement to ward the brain demons.

It's not so much an enjoyment as it is a reprieve from myself. I still enjoy them to an extent, but not as much as I used to.
Congrats on the launch guys! Can't wait to try these new features out. Especially excited about the JS stuff
Thats me! thanks for the input. Yt really puts you in a bubble unfortunately. Would be cool if one could "explore" different branches of it...
Well said, especially your 2nd and 3rd lines. Saying "correlation =! causation" or similar adds nothing
I have to note that I've been diagnosed with Adult ADHD earlier this by a psychiatrist. No bipolar, depression, anxiety behaviours present.
Well, it's taxation, so it's governed by tax law. Tax law is law, and law is made by the legislature. The president heads the executive branch of your government, not the legislative branch.
I have a pretty good memory for comment histories and you've been pushing this for far more than it is worth.

That this single article would change your mind is fortunate, but I do not suspect that to hold true for the bulk of the conspiracy peddlers that remain.
It explicitly says they controlled for age..
Aka survivorship bias.
I feel like this recommendation should come with some sort of warning. This movie might tear you apartm
Behind the scenes of the night our transformer shutdown in our data center
If you want me to believe something, it's up to you to convince me, otherwise I have no obligation to believe it based on what you've said. It doesn't mean I have or don't have an obligation to believe it in general, only that I do not based on what you said. This is all I meant. That someone should look into something they're interested in is orthogonal to burden of proof. One can still look into something while being unconvinced by something because someone didn't give an argument. It's only a judgement that their contribution is not useful in the investigation and is no indication that the investigation does or doesn't continue despite that.