skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not inclined to agree. If you look at the policy positions the Catholic Church officially promotes, they tend to be a mishmash of "left-leaning" positions on some issues (labor rights, immigration reform, abolition of capital punishment), "right-leaning" positions on others (abortion, euthanasia, LGBT rights). Trying to paint Catholicism as being in some essential sense more "left-leaning" than "right-leaning" (or vice versa) seems to require either ignoring the details of the views the Catholic Church publicly favours, or else choosing to view some of those issues as more important than others. It is worth noting that (generally speaking) Catholics are not actually required to agree with the Catholic Church's official positions on public policy questions, they are (mostly) advisory recommendations, not binding doctrine; but that fact is a further blow to the idea that Catholicism is essentially "left-leaning" or "right-leaning".

Catholicism (and Christianity more broadly) is close to 2000 years old, whereas the concepts of "left" and "right" are less than 250 years old, originating in the French Revolution. Both terms represent alliances of political positions on rather disparate topics, and many of those linkages may be more due to accidents of history than any essential connection. The precise mix of positions that make up the "left" or the "right" varies from country to country, and changes over time. The terms are useful as a rough approximation in describing the politics of some countries in particular: I think the hard two party system of the US encourages "left-vs-right" thinking, although that still ignores the internal contradictions within both alliances. Many other countries, especially those with softer two party systems, multiparty systems, and/or greater cultural diversity, politics can be more multi-dimensional, and "left-vs-right" often appears less useful; and the difference between "left-wing" and "right-wing" authoritarian regimes appears to be more style than substance, rendering the distinction rather useless in large parts of the world. When you take this broader historical view of "left-vs-right", it seems unsurprising that the labels perform poorly when applied to a religious tradition which is approximately 8 times older than those labels themselves are.
No, there is just one MS. They try to do nice things for developers because they need mindshare. A developer chained to .NET and VS Code is a fantastic asset for them. But their goal is always to extinguish outside competition.
Somehow society managed to take an entirely new, experimental medical technology, run trials and launch it to the world population in < 12 months yet it's been nearly 24 months now and there are zero - zero - large scale useful studies of ivermectin produced by the western medical establishment.

As I was reading the article, this is really what leaped out at me. There are lots of people and doctors who think ivermectin works. It's clearly a question worth investigating. Why are all the studies based on 50 people in Bangladesh?

That, in turn, is very strongly connected to the cost of running drug trials that will get past the FDA and patent rights. So it's not surprising that people end up being very cynical about this.
The article's framing is a little odd by putting the emphasis on news organizations. In my experience the worst offenders have been ISP's and phone providers. And it is such a widespread practice, it happens with everything from credit cards to gym memberships.

Another funny thing I'm wondering now, is if companies might find they are more profitable by eliminating these manipulative customer retention departments. Maybe try shifting the focus to making better products that customers want to stay with in the first place.
Not only is this not true everywhere, it can also be much more cumbersome to access.

Not to mention that supporting quality journalism is probably one of the best things you can do today to make the world better.
Android is at least open-source so you could in theory tweak it to your liking and avoid Google services altogether.
Famine ≠ killing by starving to death. USSR had massive famines before and after Holodomor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Holy shit that's gross.

I haven't used Windows as my main OS in a really long time -- 20 years? -- and crap like this is one reason why. I thought that, with Ballmer gone, they'd stop doing deeply wrong stuff like this, but here we are.
The dissonance here is intense. On the one hand, "practicing MDs ... understand almost nothing when reading medical studies", but also I don't "know better than the average doc [just] because [I've] read 10 studies."

Is the idea that doctors deserve deference because they are conditioned to submit to guidelines formulated by experts?

There is a lack of consensus on many long-standing, common medical questions, much less novel diseases. When I ask my GP about prostate screening, for example, he lays out the current state of research as best he can, but delegates the decision to me. Why is the COVID situation different, given that experts are still fighting through a figurative fog of war?
Pimping has little to do with advertising, it’s a form of slavery. Nothing would stop a pimp from forcing his workers to be responsible for advertising themselves.
And the cost of handling a debit card transaction is less than either of these.

In bits of Europe where it's allowed (like here in Denmark), it's not unusual for shops to add a percentage to the total for payments by local credit card, business credit card and/or foreign credit card. I haven't yet seen a shop with a different price for cash vs debit cards.
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There's a difference between "vaccines work," and the vaccine specifically developed for COVID works. Most of us who are skeptical of the second statement are not skeptical of the first. The snake oil is in the discourse.
The experts involved in building / maintaining GPS haven't admitted to lying to him about it to preserve the use of GPS for people deemed more important, gone back and forth on whether or not he needs to use two GPS devices (instead of one) for the safety of others, and those experts' recommendations haven't led to policies that have destroyed the livelihoods of his or his friends' families--sometimes with unclear ties to actual societal well-being.

It's not quite the same. The people who build / maintain GPS have a lot more reason to trust them, and as a result, people do.
Centered on PH: an app to get things done
Hello there!

I'm Nicolas, a web developer who has a weird addiction to Legacy Code… and really into personal productivity. I've been building and using a productivity app that's tailored to get you in the zone (Flow state) and stay there!

It's called Centered.

Today is a big day: we launched on Product Hunt!

Since this is built for devs in mind, I'm curious to get your feedbacks on the app. Does this look like something you would use on a daily basis? What would be helpful to help you fight distractions and track your progress?
Honestly that's a way more coherent answer than I was expecting. Thanks :)
US-China Trade Talks Should Prioritize Opening Up China’s Internet
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Even macOS isn’t egregious enough to just disrespect the user this brazenly. What a joke.

Embrace freedom. Use Linux.
I think search will open Bing. Unless you go to the trouble of manually copying and pasting the link, you'll open all sites you access through the search results in the same edge instance as well.
Since TypeScript is developed by Microsoft, its fair to say that support for TypeScript will always be best in Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Actually, it needs to be uppercase "OK". I typed "ok" also, and scratched my head for a while. I get it should be obvious, but my brain just didn't get it right away.
We want our users to have choice, except in some cases in which we do our best to deny it to them.
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Some might try that but one call with the FTC legal team will make any company stop that shit immediately.

You don't piss off gov't regulators
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WHO has no other option than being inaccurate.

Society needs a simple answer. Do this. Do that etc. Put on a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing. Use approved vaccines. Take booster shots etc are pretty simple to follow. Likewise don't take non approved stuff. Easy to understand and simple to follow.

Nuances will likely hurt and confuse the common man. That's why the news and celebs and politicians etc try to keep things simple.

Dr. Fauci knew that a lot of the things he was saying might not be 100% accurate and yet he did it. The reason being that on the whole his message was a net positive effect on the public.

Likewise CNN made fun of Joe Rogan for taking Ivermectin because we don't want general public to experiment with alternative medicine. It's better to just stick to the proven stuff.

Basically, there is no choice here. Or basically two choices:
1. Be 100% accurate and risk confusing people
2. Be strategic about it and for the greater good.

We need a narrative and the cost is accuracy. We need to have more empathy for people who are the decision makers and have to make difficult choices.
Ah yes, academia, that famous bastion of free thought where success is totally unconnected to whether your colleagues like you and nobody ever gets cancelled. One where, as the fine article points out, 95% of biology professors vote Democrat.

Academia is the last segment of society I trust on these topics.
> of course they still use names, address, credit card info, etc

I haven't used this service, only heard about it. It might cover your missing piece for credit card info.

https://privacy.com/

Of course, privacy.com ends up being the one that can aggregate your CC information together.
Just manufacture consent for a "culture war." This is the notion that the left is attacking religion and religious values. It has provided pivotal support for right wing candidates in the US over the past 50 years.
> I’m not sure its a problem that some companies have a “terrible” culture. Obviously, there are protected classes and laws, etc. High Level though, this is an executive position. Just get a new job.

Culture trickles down.

> If a culture truly is so bad that people won’t work there, then they won’t attract talent and put out good products and slowly die.

Or they'll attract only toxic employees, who are still capable of putting out a product, but will harm other employees who don't have the sort of economic mobility you're talking about.
> "I cannot believe that Visa transaction overhead would be higher than Amex - there's something going on behind the scenes here."

Especially considering that card transaction fees (in the EU and UK) are capped by the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) [1]

But I suppose Amazon processes card payments in such huge volumes that they expect to get rates below the cap limits (0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards), or Visa are applying excessive additional fees outside of the interchange fee?

[1] https://www.psr.org.uk/our-work/card-payments/the-ifr/
You're going to have to be more specific than that. I'm firmly in the AWS camp but I've heard nothing but praise for Azure from people I trust.
I am from Brazil, before WhatsApp existed, some cellphone companies were charging what was at the time 1 USD per SMS message sometimes.

When WhatsApp first shown (not owned by Facebook yet), some cellphone companies literally sued them (and lost), claiming all sorts of random bullshit.

Now everyone here uses WhatsApp, some services are WhatsApp only, as in... the service is basically a bot on WhatsApp and you send commands to that bot using WhatsApp.

I tried to not use WhatsApp, but when I saw the SMS fees... well, WhatsApp did forced them to bring fees down, but not by much.

I also tried to convince people to use other software, it worked partially...

1. Telegram, people here use this whenever WhatsApp is down, then they delete it again.

2. Kik, I was using it to talk to some poeple in other countries, for various reasons slowly this failed, the most bizarre one was a friend that lived in Alabama in US, seemly her phone company (AT&T I think?) detected her Kik usage and charged every single video chat we had as if it was an international phone call... as you can imagine this killed our Kik usage quite fast, we now use only Discord and e-mail.

3. Discord, only young people use that.

4. Slack, only works for work.

5. Matrix, Irc, etc... nobody I know in person uses it, people just refuse to use "techie" stuff.

6. ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc...: these were wildly popular here, ICQ was kinda killed by MSN, that then was killed by MS themselves for some reason. Nothing replaced MSN here.
That's not paranoid at all. MS goal is to declare Linux a "legacy" environment, like they tried to do with UNIX in the 80s (the so called POSIX subsystem).
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I can't reply to your last comment because it's too deep, so I'll comment here:

> According to your graph, excess mortality for ages 0-14 for this year is lower than it was in 2019, before the vaccine or the pandemic hit. And the excess mortality in the 15-44 age group is maybe 5000 people across 28 countries

See week 18-42, for 0-14 age group. Yes it has barely got to 2019 levels, but consider that beginning of year they died much less due to lockdowns, so summer high rate was enough to make up for 2019 where both winters the starting and ending saw very high climb. Again, it's about having that type of velocity during summer, not winters. It's 500-800 children compared to other summers. Since 3 millions of vaccinations given out it could mean around 1 out of 6,000 deaths per vaccination.

So all in all, it wouldn't be possible for me to prove it even if vaccine was causing a lot of harm? Because what else can I use besides excess deaths (as much data that as it's possible to gather), adverse event reporting tools etc, anecdotal stories. There's just no way.

To myself, there are too many signs pointing towards it, but I guess there's no point to really crusade at all even if it is causing harm.
There's a difference between having an arranged overdraft, and being able to have a negative balance (also known as an unarranged overdraft).

Monzo's own help pages explicitly state that your balance can go into the negative, because offline debit card payments will not be rejected. They'll also gladly take you into the negative if you owe them money (e.g. through a Monzo Plus or Premium sub, or use their Flex service).

Search Monzo help for "Unarranged Overdrafts".

As far as I'm aware, there is no UK bank that will guarantee they will reject all payments and never let you go into a negative balance on a debit card transaction. This is also a profit centre for them, so there's little motivation to actually do so.
This requires that you're pulling in only exactly the same versions of those dependencies as those that Facebook and Google have vetted. Is there a way to do that?
That's what the woke policies that aim to divide society get you. The question is, how many people are falling for that narrative? I'd wager most people don't care at all if they're not listening to mainstream and social media.
patio11 has articles on it. I would recommend the "How credit cards make money" one: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kalzumeus.com
If Spotlight on macOS can use your configured default browser, so can Windows. I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit excuses.
Harold McGee, author of the seminal On Food and Cooking, has a new book called Nosedive, entirely about the world of smell. It's eye-opening. Highly recommend it.

As the article says, you can train your sense of smell. Just reading Nosedive has been enough to retrain how I think about certain smells. Recently someone was complaining about how bad some old shoes smelled, and all I could think was that they smelled like cheese rind, which is much less unpleasant.

Edit:

> others cannot detect the sulfur compounds responsible for the unpleasant odor of “asparagus pee.”

Not everyone produces that smell after eating asparagus either, which complicates things
>The only time I restart SLIME is when I do something I shouldn't, like redefine a struct or something.

That's not something you shouldn't do and you also shouldn't need to restart Slime. Just break using `C-c C-c` and do a 'retry'.
This is the law in California too!
I was excellent at regex early in my career... actually had a job where that's basically all I did for 9 months. Read the O'Reilly book Mastering Regular Expressions from cover to cover and referenced it multiple times per day. Doing regex at a high level was instinctual.

Lost much of that knowledge within a couple years after leaving that job... was shocked how much wasn't retained when I stumbled into another project that required a fair bit of regex work. There was some muscle memory involved and I was able to ramp up quickly, but now 20 years after that initial job I'm just like you.
I believe the limit is two hours.
it is possible if a terminal accepts a transaction without connecting to the payment processor (small, contactless transactions can do that).
Really a dumb PR move, people willing to change default browser will do anyway and will also be pissed off.
Almost everyone I know use Chrome, a few Firefox, no one use Edge.
Java support is, unfortunately, iffy in every editor that isn't made by JetBrains.

I've recently got Python working well. It can be done. The deeper problem - and this is admittedly ubiquitous in emacs - is that the defaults are awful, and there is not even good discoverable official documentation about what configuration you should use because everyone's just a wee bit too content to allow, "We have a very welcoming community on IRC!" to stand in for a proper new user experience.
na I think he meant "to be a Catholic in particular, or even a Christian in general"
That's just what's in the summary. The actual policy [1] spells this out in more detail with examples:

> ROSCA requires negative option sellers to provide a simple, reasonable means for consumers to cancel their contracts. To meet this standard, negative option sellers should provide cancellation mechanisms that are at least as easy to use as the method the consumer used to initiate the negative option feature. For example, to ensure compliance with this simple cancellation mechanism requirement, negative option sellers should not subject consumers to new offers or similar attempts to save the negative option arrangement that impose unreasonable delays on consumers’ cancellation efforts. In addition, negative option sellers should provide their cancellation mechanisms at least through the same medium (such as website or mobile application) the consumer used to consent to the negative option feature. The negative option seller should provide, at a minimum, the simple mechanism over the same website or web-based application the consumer used to purchase the negative option feature. If the seller also provides for telephone cancellation, it should provide, at a minimum, a telephone number, and answer all calls to this number during normal business hours, within a short time frame, and ensure the calls are not lengthier or otherwise more burdensome than the telephone call the consumer used to consent to the negative option feature.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...
otherwise we would have had a native port if office to Linux.

Do you really believe that is the only reason we don't have a native port of Office for Linux? If Microsoft released a version of MS Office for Linux tomorrow, that was just as compatible with the Windows version as the Mac version is, how many extra licenses do you think they would sell?
This reads as someone who looks at religion purely through a political lense and not a religious one. The Catholic church is leftist. Abortion is not a conservative policy. It's about questioning if it's moral and they're taking a stance. LGBT is also in that category as well and the church has held that position longer than every single existing government of today.

Also, not every left leaning atheist agrees with the witch hunting LGBT police today...
They've always been a fraudulent company. They lied when they licensed QDOS to use as the foundation of Windows, hiding the fact that they were working with IBM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS#Creation_of_PC_DOS

They cheated the license with Spyglass Mosaic for Internet Explorer - making it based on software purchases and then bundling it for free with Windows so they didn't have to pay any royalties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Internet_Exp...

Then there's the Halloween documents, and the attempts at forcing ActiveX (and IE) on the early Web, etc. - the whole company is rotten.
Sam Harris mentioned this theory of it being pointless to engage people who have their own theories because you'll be faced with a never ending stream of "yeah but did you read this random 90 page paper on X?" and all kinds of other questions even the best professional can't counter without wasting huge amounts of time.

It's great you changed your mind but I bet there's plenty of people who haven't. Like I wonder what Bret Weinstein now thinks.
Can't answer to detaro either, so answering in my own comments. Delta and covid waves on average went really low during summer, so it should have less effect.

But maybe delayed treatments, risky delayed treatments now happening could have something to do with it potentially. Also there were talks about child suicides.
This is almost identical to my approach. One minor difference is that I got on the free Google Apps for Business plan a decade or so ago. So deliverability is there, which does come up from time to time. i.e. Occasionally you need support, and the service wants you to email them/reply to their email from the email you use with their service. So in Gmail, I have to set up an account/alias so I can send the email.

I did self-host this way back, using MailEnable on Windows Server. It... worked. But I don't recommend it!

The other downside is that the catch-all sometimes gets a lot of [gibberish]@[customdomain]. It's not too bad now, but there was a period where gibberish hexidecimal aliases were spammed regularly.
It is a bit more complicated: German catholics (arguably) played overall a good role in countering Nazi fascism most notably this guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_August_Graf_von_Galen

However, Catholic church played an important role in supporting Hitler's fascist buddy Franco during the Spanish Civil war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism_in_the_Second_Span....

I am sure there are many other examples on both sides. Similar to other religions. Some claim it is difficult to be Zionist or Shia Muslim and not lean left for example (counter to the common stereotype).
The Linux Foundation offers free online intro courses covering these topics and dozens more at https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/?_sft_content...
There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when decision makers and then the general population start trusting fringe conclusions and trying to interpret medical data when they have no training to do so.
> Then, you claim it's biological traits. Does that mean everybody has them?

I don't understand your logic. If I say someone has the biological trait being very tall, apparently it means NOT everybody has it.
Finally! FU NYT