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Yeah, I'm highly skeptical it's overall safe. You have all sorts of metals, liquids, plastics, flavoring compounds, wicks, etc. Some people try to select 'healthy' choices (like organic cotton for the wick); maybe that's healthier, maybe it's not. But then you also have tons of cheap devices on the market, made in China, with who knows what as the cheapest metal/fabric, and then literally tons of unregulated flavoring compounds on top of PG/VG. Any one of those components could be harmful.
Smoking per se has been a behaviour for thousands of years. As much as there will always be effects on health, vaping has been a god send for me. I have been smoking 1+ pack a day for nearly 20 years, until I switched to vaping 9 months ago. I feel incomparably better. My resting heart rate went down by 20%, I breathe better, am way less tired, and it doesn't stink . Plus, there is a geeky aspect with what we call RDAs ( rebuildable vapes ). Yes, we do not know the long terms effects, but the chances to be worse than cigarettes are close to 0.
Also, this article is full of references to studies that have been flagged as partisan and not seriously conducted.
Not smoking / vaping is better, but for an ex-smoker, this is a godsend.
These do contain nicotine, that’s the first paragraph of the article with the kid asking about nicotine gum.
I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I find building things from the bottom up is a great way to learn how things work (naturally).
Previously discussed here in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

The top comment is from an ex-employee, with great background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159

Reading about nodes bootstrapped over serial connections, transparently running JVMs, makes me happy and sorta wish it were a more popular paradigm.
Too true.

"ABC is a gateway drug/activity/event. It leads to XYZ, which is way worse!"

Sure, so educate them on real consequences and safety and not the external imposed consequences. Also, don't lie about ABC since they'll assume you lied about XYZ as well.

Seriously, who still doesn't see the same 5-10 year pattern at this point?
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> Then it seems like Autopilot’s Autosteer stayed locked on the left line even though it became the right line of the ramp. The system most likely got confused because the line was more clearly marked than the actual left line of the lane.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. I test drove an “autopilot 2” car once on a local road at 30-ish MPH. It appeared to try to drive centered between the lane line and the curb, totally ignoring the fact that the right half of the “lane” was parking. It then tried to drive me into a parked car and later into a trash can. Unless they’ve improved dramatically, this is the same thing.

Autopilot seems to be a mediocre adaptive cruise with mediocre steering assistance that pretends it can actually drive.
Ok I'm going to try and set up Cloudflare's DNS setup in Go to point to those root servers and see what I get.

Is there a different DNS server you would recommend? I don't think my usage requires anything special.
It isn't really the end of Windows - it's the end of Windows' dominance of Microsoft mindshare.

Windows 10 was the giant step in that direction - an always updating, maintenance mode, single OS that MS will need to support. Arguably until Win 7 dies out they won't be entirely there but once they are, maintaining Windows is a much simpler affair than yesteryears.

None of this means Windows itself is dying - it only means the OS has matured enough for the needs of present and any future needs will be addressed as and when they arise - instead of inventing the future they will abide with it on their own schedule.

This allows Microsoft to focus on things that truly matter for the future without killing Windows or spending a lot of resources on advancing/supporting it. It's not hard to imagine Windows stays a very dominant client OS for a long time to come - even if the overall PC market share continues to decline, because none of the alternatives are there and nobody is going to invest the resources to get them there.

I will also add that Satya's success lies in speeding up this strategy that started late under Ballmer and also in executing so well on it. Considering the scale of what MS is doing - Office ports to iOS, Android, Windows 10 releases, Azure, ton of other Enterprise stuff (Exchange, O365, Development tools, cross platform stuff like .NET Core, VS Code etc) - the change of course and the success they are having with it all - you can't argue it's not a phenomenal achievement.
Well, you can do that if you want to, but on the more desktop-friendly distros, I have not had to edit a configuration file in years.
I’m not an academic so forgive me for a noob question.

Is there a good introductory essay/book on how the academic publishing industry is setup, the workflow and the incentive structure for each party involved?
Building a big tower could decrease your property value, but upzoning and by-right construction should increase property values (because now the person who wants to buy your house wants to replace it with more than one house.)

Local government being able to stop individual projects rather than setting policy could be the problem. Maybe.
Rather not involved. MS is notably lacking participation in Vulkan for GPU graphics and compute, because they are pushing their lock-in alternative.

For other lock-in examples, check who holds patents (and charges for them) on exFAT and its usage on common Flash storage like SD cards.
Thank you for the feedback!

You didn't like the name ?

And yes there are a lot of devs that seem to have interest in blockchain.
The article is about nicotine vape (Juul) which is addictive and (in some states) illegal to sell to children. The problem is in the title "I can't stop", and the solution is to put them on nicotine gum?

"You must be at least 21 years old to purchase products on JUUL.com.'
Voice assistants are difficult, both electro-acoustically to get a good clean voice signal from the ambient room noise and voice-assistant generated audio (this is called barge-in), as well as the software to actually parse that speech. A great open-source voice-assistant is ambitious.

But why isn't there a great open-source version of any $iot_appliance? IOT, in general, is crawling with companies that are looking for a monthly cash flow, and are therefore creating an ecosystem of non-federated, walled garden type devices that report back to some central server to keep the user dependent upon and paying monthly cash to some company. All of these IOT projects are generally simpler than voice-assistants, and I look forward to the day when we have IOT projects that talk to each other or a local server, without linking us to some company forever.
You don’t see the headlines because cruise control is an old technology. There were news about people misusing it when it became mainstream.
For cryptocurrencies, the alternatives are the dozens of alternate ways of transferring funds.
Yeah, California is a terrible place to live, what with its concerns about peoples' "health" and "safety".
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A generation ago these kids would've gotten busted for smoking old-fashioned cigarettes ("Smokin' in the boys room"). Two generations ago it was legal to buy (at some states at age 16) and legal to possess and use, except on school grounds. Three generations ago it was legal even in doctor's offices and hospitals.

California and Massachusetts (and oddly enough, Mississippi) are stoking up a new hysteria with public health spending in an effort to keep people of all ages from switching from conventional cigarettes to e-cigs.

I see six-figure earners on the sidewalks of San Francisco smoking old-fashioned cancer sticks and very few vaping. I wonder- did my tax dollars dissuade them from upgrading their habit? Second-hand smoke is substantially safer from vaping, but actual health of nonsmokers must not be these states' priorities.

There are rumblings about regulating nicotine content in real cigarettes. If they were to regulate vape juices (like limit the worst precarcinogenic bases), I think that's a much better (and cheaper!) place to devote public resources.
We are building this at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder). You can build 100% on-device Voice AI assistants which are running on a Raspberry Pi 3, and we are open-sourcing the platform

You can take a look at our blog to get started if you want to build your own assistant: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...
Even if he delivers half of the bandwidth he promised for twice the cost that he quoted, it's still a far better option in many places. I have two ISPs where I live. One only goes up to 12Mbps/1Mbps. The other is a gigabit connection, but it's $200/mo and has a substantial amount of downtime.
Why bother to try to sell desktop software to users that want everything for free, and with source code available?

Usually the only ones willing to pay for Linux software are enterprise shops.
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I definitely agree with this, the ideal would be current tobacco users switching to vapes while no non-tobacco user touches them. I just am not sure how we can get to that ideal and how to balance encouraging smokers to switch without encouraging kids to think of vaping as safe.
"they shoot themselves in the foot by investing in non-free platforms at the end of the day."

When is that end of the day? Over the last decades it would have been extremely difficult making money with Linux dekstop software. Windows and Mac were the only viable options to run a business.
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It's perfectly fair. QnX had a fully functional desktop environment and a large chunk of functionality that experimental OS's like Plan9 popularized.

Whether or not Windows as designed to be like QnX is immaterial, the question is what would be the better OS to serve as the engine behind a computer interacting with its users and my vote definitely goes to a real time operating system using a micro kernel. Because in my opinion that's by far the best match for that workload.

Stability, speed of interaction driver isolation and so on are much much better when using something like QnX vs a monolith. And a GUI is a real time affair.
...because Microsoft is good at marketing, has no ethics, and successfully leveraged its advantages in the 90s to kill all the competition? Is this a trick question?
Then you stand for nothing at all. You can stand for decentralization of financial systems at which point blockchain might become an enabling technology. But you are arbitrarily limiting yourself if you have such a strong focus on a given paradigm.
I remember seeing the talk on this at Lua Workshop 2017. daurnimator gave a great demo. Glad to see it get more publicity and an actual release - looks really promising
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The author didn't characterize his position accurately. He meant "Windows Server", not "Windows Desktop". Similar to how IBM sold off it's laptop business to Lenovo, the strategy is basically saying that "We're a business services company, there's no growth left in the end-user ecosystem anymore, because all of that growth is in mobile, which we suck at, so let's just double down on what we are growing at: cloud services and office productivity services".

That Windows we all know, both desktop and server side, is not dead. The economics on the server side are diminishing (20~30 year outlook) and Microsoft won't be around if they don't do something about it now.

IMHO it's a very smart strategy, people just didn't understand what Ben was saying because he didn't articulate it correctly (which I do find with his content, but it's less often the case)
That'd be nice if top repos on github were the best ones. But they're quite often the most marketed instead (though these two qualities are not necessarily mutually exclusive).
People like to control others and everyone loves a sensationalist national epidemic for the headlines is what is at the heart of it. I like vaping though. Doesn't appear to do any lasting harm compared to everything else and smart kids will wise up and quit eventually.
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... which is expanding. So now you have a percolation problem: what grows faster, the bubbles or the universe? The latter is also thought to be expanding at an accelerating rate, which leads to funny scenarios like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08130
> You'd have to change your nameserver manually unfortunately.

Which negates the purpose intended in this thread.

I get it you could sorta hack together a one-off test, but please refer to the context of this thread as mentioned previously.
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> I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai and we are building a 100% on-device and private-by-design platform to build Voice AI assistants

Excellent! How will you guarantee that your devices will not leak data?
It's because you've never consumed it that you don't miss it.
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I used to program my calculator while bored in school.
Yes but what's the success rate?
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