skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have mentioned, the idea that there is no evidence that it doesn’t work is completely invalid.

The onus of proof is on the person making the claim. It’s on the homeopaths to provide evidence that it does work. Many millions of dollars have been wasted trying to create this proof, but it has never stood up to basic scrutiny.

So it is therefore logical to assert that homeopathy doesn’t do what it claims to be able to do.

Further, many of the arguments used to justify the use of homeopathy aren’t internally consistent and are based on concepts that have no scientific validity.

The common distrust of conventional medicine and the assumption of Doctors and Big Pharma colluding to supply pharmaceuticals is patently ridiculous. This is in a system where Drs, pathology specimen collectors, pathologists, pharmacists, and pharmaceutical manufacturers are seperate entities with minimal contact between them.

However, the homeopathy practitioner is uncritically allowed to be the sole specimen collector and analyst, the only diagnoser, and the only prescriber and dispenser of “treatments”. They are also the only person that reviews the “treatment”. A homeopath is allowed and in fact encouraged to mark their own homework, while a network of specialists at arm’s length is treated with deep suspicion. Does this make sense? No.
> How can these systems be so broken, and why isn't capitalism solving them?

I’d wager it’s because free markets solve problems not entrenched cronies with political strings.
> Everything might make more sense if you visit their website: https://polyhaven.com/ It's not just a dumb, static file server.

At a glance, it still looks like mostly a highly cached static website + search. Its not exactly a high complexity backend.

Things are always more complex at scale, so there's probably more to it then what appears at first glance, but its not obvious what that is.
if you delve deep enough into mathematical statistics, as in the theory and methods, you will realise that your statement does not mean that there would have been more deaths without any vaccine. It's that sort of 7th Seal [0] funny.

And it means that the response as it was might have been a deadly mistake.

edit: but as of now we just don't know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
That was a firmware issue pre 2019 model that was corrected in a few weeks that got overblown. The throttling problem doesn’t exist anymore.

The only problem with the first generation framework laptop is intel’s quad core CPU because of thermal and power problems associated with their process nodes.

Hex core is really the lowest I will go now for anything over $1000. If this was a Ryzen 5800u, I’d have bought one already.
I've been really grateful for airlines like Qatar Airways continuing to run their mostly empty flights. I've been on a flight with just 8 people in economy & business and most recently one with 30. I know people can call it wasteful, most things we do are wasteful, but it really means a lot when it's already a huge headache to get the paperwork to board the flight and I can't imagine having to worry about the flight being cancelled.
It's a bit of a hard problem isn't it? Flights and airport capacity have to be planned very far in advance and there are a limited number of slots - if you have airlines taking capacity and not using it, there's a huge opportunity cost for actual travelers who have to pay more, or can't get somewhere, because a necessary flight has been pushed out by an unnecessary one?

It seems to me these kind of rules have a place, but should be expanded to take slots away from airlines which operate lots of mostly empty flights, not just cancellations.

Of course I do think exceptions should be made for extraordinary circumstances like a pandemic.
There's always https://www.reddit.com/user/useles-converter-bot/comments/ if you're looking for useless conversions.
Because it was used by a newsroom in Lawrence, Kansas and they wrote a web framework in python called Django. Their journalistic culture led Django to have really great documentation, which led to an influx of more casual developers who had an expectation of great documentation to make up for the fact that their main expertise was elsewhere. This made libraries with good docs more successful, making it easier for university courses to choose python as an initial language. This made it easier for university labs to agree on python as a language. This led Travis Oliphant & friends to develop numpy etc.
What's missing from this analysis (did not read it in detail, I could be wrong) is a comparison to a Monte Carlo approach. In other words, throw darts and issue buy/sell recommendations based on a stochastic selection process. It could be uniformly distributed or some other approach.
It’s quite the opposite, being in “historically oppressed” segments of protected classes directly and openly helps your odds of getting in to prestigious institutions.
Maybe mostly because you did not articulate any link between long-term effects and vaccination.

I do not think this was researched at all.
Terrible argument that implies “nobody makes anything on their own so I have every right to use their work”.

You are free to make your own drugs and “GC/MS some shit”, though you’d just be smarter to buy it outside the US.
>> The CCP is taking a hardline with companies domestically. There's a huge push to stop corrupting the youth, treat data responsibly, etc.

Exactly, w/ 72% of their users being domestic[1], TikTok's biggest short term threat is probably the CCP.

>> The CCP gives 0 shits what those companies do to the rest of the world, and are probably thrilled if TikTok causes political and social chaos in the US.

You're not wrong.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/25867/percentage-of-tiktok-us...
Taken charitably, the policy is encouraging perpetrators to seek help - therapy I assume - to end the cycle. I would not interpret this as aiding a flight from justice, but I wish you luck in your investigation.
Wonder if that’s a fake account creation edge using that, if that signal is interpreted that clearly. Setup a bunch of fake emails, upload your “contacts” to some compromised accounts, have them click on links in the emails to enroll in FB.
"Weighs as much as a garden hose long enough to circle the earth almost 18 times."
The wrong ones apparently :) I did attempt to explain that the cost for each dev to figure out an alternative setup would exceed the cost of the license itself, and of course pointed out the possible risk of not taking action if somebody continues to use Docker Desktop unintentionally violating the new license terms.
> ...an ego-driven hazing ritual.

Google India (c. late 2000s / early 2010s) used to be notorious for this, so much so that Googlers I knew would rather have their referrals give interviews at Google HQ (MTV), instead (not that it was any better, but rather it wasn't as worse).

One piece of advice I received early on was, interviews aren't meant to be a pissing contest but often are. As an interviewee, accept that and try not to take rejections personally (easier said than done). As an interviewer, know that you're in a position of power, and try not to abuse it (easily done but never said).
No. What are you getting at? Better to not be deliberately obscure about it.
“Earn $25/hr working in your city. Easy work, get started next week; you get paid the same day.” “We’re a contractor for the city and need to update the signage on parking meters to add these QR codes.”

I bet you could get plenty of marks to do the sticker work.
> It came across as pretty rude in that interview setting, though she probably was not intending to be so.

Right, probably wasn't meant to be rude. Not hard to imagine that she might have had a lunch conversation recently about Kotlin, or just finished reading a long HN thread about it, and that was the laughter.

But in general, yeah, we all need to be mindful in our language. The interviewer is under zero stress/tension during an interview, while the interviewee is on high alert.
I dont understand.

COVID tests are completely free, subsidized by the government. You can get COVID tests at very high prices on the "black market". If you don't want to pay those prices, you stand on line at the free testing areas.

Why do you think capitalism is broken here when its working just fine. The supply of testing is too low since its free to take them officially and there is massive demand
Same boat - I get really frustrated by the “someone tried to access your account” emails from Facebook.

Oh, you mean the account that you confirmed as deleted 8+ years ago??
FB is just another ad selling company. If you have an account it helps them know about you, if you dont have an account it makes sense they'll still have a profile for you.
You must be having trouble parsing text or explaining your interpretation. The policy says it works with victims, not harassers (DV perps?).

[Edit: in fact, I was having trouble parsing text. I missed the line about perpetrators. For that, I apologize, as for suggesting it was your inability to parse text]
Yes, look at what happened to Gabby Petito. Strangulation can get serious very quickly.
But how many olympic swimming pools is that?
I deleted my Facebook account in 2008 and never went back. I deeply dislike and distrust Facebook.

That said, it is relevant that they only do this for "deactivated" accounts, and not "deleted" accounts. To give them the benefit of the doubt, those states are different, and if they communicated what they meant by each state, it would be fine with me if they continued tracking people until they actually deleted their accounts.

The problem is that they don't communicate it very well — they didn't back in 2008, and it sounds like they don't do it much better today. That's the sneaky part, not the tracking itself. Well, the tracking is sneaky, don't get me wrong, but if you're on Facebook in 2022, you must know about it and have accepted at some level that it is happening.

I also remember actually getting them to delete my account for good was not trivial. There was a waiting period, and a lot of different ways to accidentally opt out. To be honest, I initially read this article thinking it had been discovered that they were tracking "deleted" users in addition to "deactivated" users this whole time, and it didn't surprise me at all.
Most of the work is NOT done by academia (i done the academic work myself). I’d say maybe 80% is done by pharma.

You think academia know how to optimize structure? Bulk manufacturer? Organize clinical trials across the globe? Check all the regulatory boxes?
I trust AOL way more than I trust Facebook.
I think GP means effective and accomplished in terms of what he did after leaving office.
>instead of links to the shared file

So you mean Excel 365, not desktop Excel?
A lot of the HR-y systems and other things being not hosted on-prem and moved to salesforce or something means a lot of random click-through links in legitimate emails, e.g. to take some "totally anonymous survey" at work or vote on some questions for the next "roundtable with the VPs". So many of these companies have URLs that are not related to their domain for these short links, and it just leaves me scratching my head. clicktrack.legitdomain.com was eschewed for your shortlinks in favor of link-track-service.net?
Very likely the police have someone inside who had knowledge of the operation.
Ah, if still true why am I not surprised they’re only helping the protected classes that are politically/culturally advantageous at the moment.
Well, one of them, anyway.
If you can see the code you can fork it.
Don't you get tht same for free with GitLab Paged and last I checked Cloudflare was free too for caching static HTML assets?
Dude, that will not carry you through a hard problem.

You need the pocket Dijkstra, Kruskals, Union-find, Bellman-Ford, KMP, Kadanes (sliding window), LCS, DP (1-n dimensional), Topological Sorting, NP-hard heuristics (usually DP), BFS, DFS, Backtracking, Memoization (basically DP, but usually used in DFS), Prefix sums (DP as well), that weird palindrome-specific algorithm I can't remember, binary search, bisection (numerical anaylsis ftw!)

You also need tries, heaps, red-black trees, B-trees, DAGs, priority queues (heaps)

But wait.. there's more!

Euclidean algorithm, Josephus Problem, Sieve of Erastosthenes and all the number theory bullshit I can't remember and refuse to, because it has fuck all to do with daily engineering.
I think it is long past time to legalize cocaine. Why should Americans be forced to spend so much money to have it smuggled in?
Those prison sentences are surprisingly light for the crime. I guess it still pays to deal drugs
It's funny they want to 'protect' creators from dislikes, but will let them get destroyed financial and artistically by copyright trolls.
It is a good summary. My first reaction was "for pain and suffering". If you are hosting a server in some cloud provider, you probably still want to have your primary DNS not on that server. Yes, there are caveats.
It's my understanding that the arrival port usually does inspections and stuff.

From that, it would seem it's probably easy to get anything onto a cargo ship - simply buy a container and put whatever you like into it. Why did they have to bother with the speedboats and nets?

And at the same time... How did they plan to land these drugs? Their whole scheme doesn't cover inspections at the arrival port.
I don't think that most workloads are webapps and many webapps are not just CRUD. HN is not the web either, in case HN formed such a viewpoint for you.
Which was not originally in the title....
There's an interesting inversion in people's expectations between compiled programs and source. If it's compiled, it should do one thing and do it well. If it's a source package, it should implement as much as it can and use external packages as little as possible.
This assault charge has nothing to do with me. Me reporting the facts doesn't change that.
At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if the screen is one of the most expensive parts of a laptop. So I’m not sure there’s much of a market for people who want a really big screen but cheap everything else.
> with the assistance of Github management.

In the absence of some substantial reason to believe this part, this is quite likely actionable as libel against Microsoft (as well as, without including substantial reason to believe it, wholly inappropriate for HN.)
That's what I did when I deactivated fb: names and contact information straight onto sticky notes, stuck to my monitor.
I think this article reporting may be incomplete. Surely they also carry cargo underneath?
The early years are generally accompanied by huge cash bonuses so it evens out against the back loaded equity.
I see, I actually missed that line: "Perpetrators of domestic violence are also encouraged to seek assistance from Microsoft Cares."

That sentence leaves a lot unsaid about the consequences of taking such an action. It's almost certain that Cares is required by policy/legal to refer that to law enforcement.
Funny thing is I had an interview some years ago and he asked me about cycle detection, so I gave the basic set approach, then added the tortoise and hare as a memory free solution.

It immediately made him uncomfortable and I didn't get the job, because he didn't like the tortoise and hare solution not being as "tractable" as the set solution.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
My understanding is that this an international issue. It's something that made sense before the pandemic, since there is almost certainly competition for landing slots, but those slots should have been frozen when international flights so obviously dropped off in 2020. The FAA did drop the rule in the US, at least temporarily.

Consider, though, that many of these flights are only empty of passengers. A great deal of air freight has always flown on passenger aircraft, much more than on dedicated air cargo flights, and planes without passengers are often flying with full cargo holds.
Someone who calls the police on their neighbor for parking more than 3 hours, and then parks in the same spot themselves for more than 3 hours is nothing more than a hypocrite.
Hospital Beds Are a Monopoly
> That only applies when you dealing with markets with an absence of competition.

This is incorrect. From the FTC[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
The Jetstream has been my favorite for years.
Just wanted to say that I’ve been a Photoshop user since 4.0, but in the last year I’ve found myself loading photopea more than loading photoshop. Fantastic product. My main reason is purely the load speed - I can get a basic file up and running far faster. Great work on it - I’m a big fan!
Not yet.

I saw that they also have some kind of tool that lets you scrape websites that don't have native RSS feeds, but it is only at the "super duper" pricing tier, whatever that one is called.
I'm not a huge fan of coding tests, but as a hiring manager, we do them during my team's interviews.

I'm not looking for a leetcoder. But I've had to reject candidates who otherwise seemed really strong, but then it turns out that they completely struggled with every aspect of a simple python question.
Neat, I didn't know about the `async {}` feature.

I think it's obvious that Rust chose `async fn` for familiarity with other languages. As you say `async` is just sugar on the return type, so logically it should decorate that type, not the fn keyword. "async fn" is even misleading since the function itself returns synchronously (and immediately): it's the returned value where the async-ness lies.

So I think Rust's use and placement of `async` is for familiarity, which traces back to C#'s original choice. Not to say that's a bad rationale.

Admittedly I didn't follow any of the Rust async design discussions so I could be completely wrong about all of it.
I assumed allears meant living ex-presidents.
The buck stops with the airlines. Many airlines have been accused of colluding with “free market” ticket prices. Surely they could also enact a gentleman’s agreement not to “steal” each other’s slots until travel demand is back to 2019 levels?
They really push ssh certificate auth vs key auth. Each has their tradeoffs. If you're going to go through implementing a pki for ssh, I'd throw in something like kerberos also to look into.
not Aws-holes?
Why does that matter? There's no way to ensure your employees aren't writing down their passwords. If you don't trust someone to follow procedure then don't employ them.
Tangentially, I used DKIM signatures as proof (of them unilaterally canceling my order) in my charge back against Harbor Freight and either they just roll over on all chargebacks or it was enough proof to make them.
Automatic Plant Watering Device
Airlines can control prices if they maintain airport slots. This may be in play here.
Exactly. This woman in Canada had to sell her house to get a drug that insurance readily pays for in the US. Criminal.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...

”"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."

Earlier this week, McLaren walked to her local Shopper's Drug Mart and paid nearly $8,000 for a 21-day supply. On Tuesday she swallowed her first pill, worth $262.40 for just one day of treatment.”
The direct link to the Survey Data: https://piper2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/3bad99c6-e44a-4424-8f...

Key line: "87% of teens own an iPhone and 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone; Apple is No. 1 watch brand for first time"

Also of note: "Cash is (still) king for teens as top payment method followed by Apple Pay"
Plex. Nice interface on apple app and server end can run on the mac
Show HN: Questmate, setup and assign recurring task lists for yourself and team
Why would they? The point of the question is to see your thinking / problem solving process.

It's like asking why you should write a resume when you won't resumes as part of your job. It serves a similar purpose of trying to get to know who you are.
So... Found this thread via a former coworker...

I have a friend who is cousins with Elizabeth Holmes. His mom was her first investor and she has the original stock certificates... They're planning on turning them into NFT's and selling them.
If I had to guess I’d say the “narco phones” were plants running government software.
> When I interview people I try really hard not to do stuff like laughing at a serious question or suggestion from a candidate unless they're obviously trying to be funny.

Anyone who has worked at a big company knows how much terrible legacy cruft runs the world, and it does take an effort to not be jaded during the interview.

I work for a major cloud hosting company and was fighting with the team that owns a resource manager that runs on each node over some "fancy C++11" features I used, and in an interview I had the same day, the doe-eyed new grad candidate asked me:

Candidate: So do you guys have a chance to use C++20 yet for work? I find it pretty neat
Me: Well...it's hard to explain
C: How about C++17, are you at least on that?
Me: ...
C: 11?
Me: the standard we use is older than you are

The guy eventually joined and at least I have a pal to commiserate with now.
> Except, as we keep being told by Apple fans here, that's not enough because Apple's OS isn't the most popular one.

Even that deflection is incorrect. When it comes to the mobile market in the US, Apple has over 60% of the market, and Google has the rest. When it comes to the mobile app distribution market, they're responsible for 100% more sales than Google is, and both companies make up that entire market.

In the US, Apple is the most used mobile and mobile app provider. And even if they weren't, they have a duopoly with Google in a dozen or more markets.
Is there a decentralized solution you would recommend that’s better?
Gary V's new NFT restaurant
I have never used mux.com (I have used Vimeo, AWS Elemental, and Cloudflare Streams in the past), but they are fairly well-known as the founders created the very popular video.js library. One key thing that differentiates mux.com from others is they're multi-cdn unlike AWS Elemental / Cloudflare Streams, say.
Always? If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406989#26407395, then I don't remember repeating this discussion with him on HN or anywhere else. He took it really personally, so I don't see a point in rehashing it. I stand by my words behind the link and I don't think that I stand "corrected". You can read the HN discussion and github and IRLO discussions linked in it to form your own opinion.
There were many people over many studies that were responsible for mRNA vaccines and you don't hear them agreeing. Robert Malone had a small contribution early on. He's probably stirring controversy for publicity's sake.
Citation on the rats?
Sending a flight that unexpectedly turns out to be nearly empty is different from scheduling a flight that you know will be nearly empty. The latter would only happen due to wrong incentives. In this case, it sounds like the problem is that access to airport slots is based on how many flights you run or the consistency thereof.

Why not make access based on money? Money is universal. If you pay the airport, you get the slot. If you buy the slot for the month and then don't need it one day, you wasted some of the slot money, but you need not send an empty flight.