skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the CDC[1] and the WHO[2] disagree with what you just wrote.

> Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke [1]

> While the tobacco industry continues to claim that the evidence that passive smoking causes disease – particularly lung cancer – is controversial, every independent authoritative scientific body that has examined the evidence has concluded that passive smoking causes many diseases. [2]

Also, the Enstrom & Kabat study is widely criticised [3] + [4]:

> incorrect definition of passive smoking exposure as a “nonsmokerʼs marriage to a smoker” [3]

> A severe error in the study was the failure to establish a control group of nonsmokers who were unexposed to secondhand smoke. [4]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...

[2] http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/secondhand_smoke/about/e...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236833718_Critique_...

[4] [PPT] www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman/7550/week14/Second-hand_Smoke.ppt
> Strikingly, no concern was voiced over the glaringly obvious fact that no official reason was ever offered for going to war -- no reason, that is, that could not be instantly refuted by a literate teenager.

-- Noam Chomsky
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> that the lifespans predicted (on solid evidence) for these children keep being invalidated and extended.

My understanding is that they are also cautious in generating such estimates, excluding any non-concrete factors (improvements in healthcare etc) that might be used to modify a purely frequentist estimation given historical data.

In general it's probably better to tell a cohort that they've an expected lifetime pessimistically than optimistically?
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"Luggage searches" is a strawman description

That being said, if your things are being actually rummaged through and arbitrarily confiscated, I'm completely in disagreement with it. Especially being done by "security people" with no ID.

Ok, ok I get it, Vegas hotels probably have to deal with way more crap from guests than your average hotel, still, this is uncalled for.

Still, hotel rooms are serviced, nobody should be going through regular suitcases, it's a different thing to turn away room service for days at a time and have big boxes and crates that don't look like something ordinary

> have those "people" never been to a hotel?

I have. Hotels are not rentals. A degree of privacy is expected, surely, but it's not "free for all"
I'm quoting from the linked Gamasutra post, which shows the attrition rate per level.
Interesting take, since the BJP comes from the RSS who modeled themselves after the Italian fascists, to enact anti-minorities views, which themselves come from the British: the empire relied on the good old "divide to rule" scheme to control India after they discovered Indians would rebel together, regardless of their religion. They then started to privilege minorities in order to stoke religious resentment and prevent an unified front. It took a Mahatma Gandhi to break that cycle (until he was himself killed. By a RSS activist).

The BJP is doing the bidding of a colonial master that is now long gone, using brown-shirt mentality. So who exactly is importing "blight from the West" here?
What they want is for dangerous criminals to be found out before they kill people. This is complex because of competing wants (like not wanting to subject oneself to airport-like security at a hotel).

This is just the nature of public discourse. The newreading public is not going to withold forming an opinion, tweet or somesuch until they've thought through all implications. They are going to have general, simplified opinions. This is normal. It is kind of disingenuous taking this to mean "people want __insert totalitarian implications__.

Hote security want similar things. They have a more nuanced understanding, being professionals after all. They particularly don't want to be blamed after-the-fact for having overlooked (in retrospect) danger signs. The type of people with the kind of stuff that go to to defco probably alert all sorts of "common sense" danger signs.

Lisbeth Salander walks through the lobby towing a 150kg box....
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My point is that "horrible sanctions against the regime" do absolutely nothing to the regime (or might even improve it, given the "whole world against us, but we will heroically prevail" rhetoric in Russian media), but hurt the lives of normal people, who are completely powerless to do anything with the said regime.
Is being Europe really relevent? NATO forces were involved in Afghanistan... Are they different from American soldiers in this regard?
That stood out for me too.

There is no such thing as impenetrable in an area that dry.
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This is for Facebook, but applies equally to Google as well: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/21/does-facebook-know-w...
I agree that anything can be made fun if you try hard enough. It's a kind of mental hack. Some people are better at it than others.

I'm very happy that you feel passionate about your work. I envy that. This comment is not an attempt at making you less passionate; I'm trying to point out differences in perspective.

One phenomenon I observed is that people who just learned programming are fascinated by everything. People on their first or second job. People just learning their first or second programming language. They're so full of enthusiasm. I envy them. For me, that moment was many years ago, way before I was able to join the job market. Because of that, I sometimes think that there's a disadvantage to learning to program before adulthood - your first jobs won't be as exciting. You've already seen 90% of the problems you're about to face, and your attention is thus focused not on the technical aspects, but on the fact that you have this problem in the first place, likely for no good reason.

> The reason boils down to the fact that, more than any other domain out there, I feel like I'm working directly with the future. I'm working directly at the intersection of technology and business, driving real value for real people.

Yeah, for me - and many others - that "future" is a disastrous dystopia, a perversion of what computing could be, a land of corporate riches, total surveillance and great waste of resources, instead of the promised efficiency and empowerment of individuals. The web of today - from the tech stack to dev communities to popular business models - is a tragic reminder of how "worse is better" can be taken to an extreme, resulting in all the compute being mostly wasted on software bloat and glitter. Consider e.g. Moore's law, and then consider that the software of today doesn't usually offer new user-facing features that are actually useful (i.e. not glitter) over the software from 15 years ago. Sure, most of it is the same old thing but networked!, but that's arguably more of a business model change than something meaningful to end users. And the web is unfortunately driving all that bloat, glitter and user-hostile business practices.

Yes, I very much don't like the cloud.

> (...) driving real value for real people. Anybody who is making a website for dev money is doing this.

I question the "real value for real people" part of this. In fact, I believe it would be better for everyone if a lot of those web jobs were not done at all. After all, the dominant model of the web is to waste people's time (result of optimization for engagement) while making money off advertising (i.e. wasting more time), plus building surveillance infrastructure to make extra buck off data collection. I do not subscribe to the view that just because some money changes hands, it's automatically a good thing.

But then, maybe I'm just burned out. I've noticed I've become increasingly depressed about this industry, and the typical jobs that are available.
The theory goes that, as birds have excellent eyesight and use it to navigate, they're more likely to avoid a huge slowly rotating object than a very narrow pointy one.
The list of countries that are not invading others and destroying their civilisation is pretty long. You should educate yourself about the world.
Inherent in a diagnosis are some statistical assumptions. An individual case can beat the odds, so to speak.
Meh, more war justification. "But the other kids are doing it too" does not a morally authoritative position make.
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Yes, though that seems to be a fork and not the official version.
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No sorry, that's an apologist position. Six months ago the shooting was an even fresher memory. Did the hotel work with Defcon to communicate their concerns? Did the hotel implement procedures that minimise the risk while respecting customers? Were Defcon guests informed that cancelling servicing would trigger ad-hoc searches? Did the hotel do anything that suggests they care at all? No.
> How is that different from the gig economy?

It's different because the purpose of the deposit isn't to crowdsource people to exploit via underpaying them to recycle, whereas that is exactly the case for the gig economy. Uber, Airbnb, etc. rely on individual contractors being cheaper than their regulated equivalent (Taxis, hotels) while also putting the risk on them. The purpose of the deposit is harm reduction - incentivize people to stop littering their recyclables by charging them money for the bottles/cans.

If we were to remove the deposit system and instead replace it with paid workers, why would any particular individual care about not littering? After all, our taxes pay for workers to clean it up. I'm not saying I espouse that belief, but when you increase the convenience factor of something like littering, people will do it more often. When it hurts people's pocketbooks to litter, they do it less. Take, for example, plastic grocery bags. Everyone knows plastic grocery bags create a huge waste problem and a little bit of thoughtfulness (bringing reusable bags with you) can mitigate the amount of bags used. However, it wasn't until we started charging a fee for grocery bags that usage numbers dropped significantly.
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I'd love to know why the parent has been downvoted.

Further evidence, if any is needed:

"The use of lethal force on the Berlin Wall was an integral part of the East German state's policy towards its border system."

"The Stasi took charge of "corpse cases" and those injured while trying to cross the border, who were transported to hospitals run by the Stasi or the police where they would recuperate before being transferred to Stasi prisons. The Stasi also took sole responsibility for the disposal of the dead and their possessions. Bodies were not returned to relatives but were cremated, usually at the crematorium at Baumschulenweg. Occasionally the cost of the cremations was covered by the victims themselves using money taken from their pockets.[25]

Stasi officers posing as policemen would inform the relatives, though not before trying to obtain "valuable pieces of information on the border violation". Deaths would be stated as being due to "a border provocation of his own causing", "a fatal accident of his own causing" or "drowning in a border waterway". Every border death was investigated in detail to identify how the attempt had been made, whether there were any vulnerabilities in the border system that needed to be remedied and whether anyone else had been involved. If necessary, the family, relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbours were put under surveillance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_at_the_Berlin_W...
I've seen gardeners hanging old CDs up to achieve a similar effect. Apparently the way they swing around and glint in the sunlight deters birds.
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Can I assume you have build blog somewhere for this? Or are you just saying shit for fun?
Because CNN and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are the truth...
Almost everyone I know could not solve it correctly without a lot of hints. Even when you say: „It is not the answer you first think it is“. I like to use it when someone feels too smart and won’t acknowledge that he might be wrong about something. For example, a friend was arguing that the moon landing didn’t happen because the capsule was too small to hold the needed fuel. I asked him the paradox, he got it wrong. I followed with: „how can you believe to be right about rocket science, when you weren’t able to get this simple question right?“
>That sounds like a recipe for some terrible monopolization by the first few civilizations that manage to achieve FTL:

Yeah, that's where the "evil empire/East India Trading Company but in Spaaaaace" was going to come from. I wanted to use hyperspace/FTL as a vague metaphor for a scarce but crucial resource like fossil fuels (or whale oil, back in the day.)
"Let's piss off a large, drunken gathering of red teamers, and the blue teamers who've probably designed some of the underlying systems we use! What could go wrong?"

This is how you get your speaker system stuck on 24hrs of wpic sax guy radio.
It's a logical fallacy, but it can be a pragmatic decision to delegate reasoning, especially where the claim is expensive to evaluate (e.g. science because of time for prerequisite knowledge and training) or the consequence of being wrong is low.
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I have heard the phrase that "Africa is China's China". I don't know how much quantitatively, offshoring has happened from China.
I presume by "blinded" they mean temporary blindness due to losing their night vision, not permanent damage. The reason they don't cause accidents is because they generally happen on approach or departure which are (or can be) fully automated and therefore easy to abort. It's still very unpleasant for the pilot.
> I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :)

Unlike Hot Fuzz, which is basically a documentary.
Humans only have rights because humans say we do.
It's bizarre that the right to bear arms (important to some), means many other people will have to give up some privacy.
> ...a technical means -- decentralization -- quickly becomes an ethical stance...

As in blockchain?
> What dis they expect?

Well for one thing they likely expected that the hotel change their policies to reflect that they are going to go through guests luggage, and to clearly state that security guards are going to go through their rooms.

The outrage isn’t that hey are doing this, it’s that they are doing so without proper information and without following their own policy.
In the UK, to avoid the sugar levy, soft drinks manufacturers have added sweeteners to their recipes to reduce the sugar content. Lose-lose for all of us – wouldn't mind paying more for sugary drinks but instead we get the yuckier sweetener versions.
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I suppose we have seen advancements in this area in the past 10 years since this was published. Most applications and OS will at least attempt to recover all your work. Think a grey area still seems to be around significant upgrades to OSs when things can go seriously wrong. A recent upgrade of my Mac laptop collapsed spectacularly with much time spent on repairing the damage.

Good discussion on this topic
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It's a window to the world of people you know/admire/like.

Facebook, for me, became this staid place where people complained or posted mundane stuff.

I open Instagram and I see:

- one of my favorite music artists posted a pic from the highest railway in Japan

- a gaggle of models I follow are looking fine

- some street art from Berlin

- motivational story from Gary Vaynerchuck

- the hashtag of my favorite city surfaces snaps that give me wunderlist to return

There's nothing there to make me rage - no politics, no lame memes, no arguments. Just a steady stream of aesthetically-pleasing photos to make my mind wander for 30 seconds or so.
these statements are suspicious:

“Imagine me carrying a dog and a body, I mean come on,” Ms. Hodgetts said.

An inocent person typically just says “i didnt do it”, but this attempt at providing justification is suspicious.

She could have an accomplice that helped her carry the body and know a lot about it.

“I’ve had me septic done, me incinerators searched, me house done four times”

Incineration would be a way to make the bodies dissapear in the middle of the countryside, but its the woods they could be buried anywhere.

Again she is providing way too much detail and justifications, its like she knows something.

“Nobody found anything” - suggesting that there was something to be found.
Three aspects - influencers and wannabe influencers trying to gain lots of followers to plug products.

So they don't need to get a "real" job, they can just post a few pictures and get paid.
In most hotels I've been to in more volatile parts of the world they just search bags on entry to the property - which would seem an easier and more thorough approach. If security are so concerned why aren't they doing that here?

If hotel security forced their way into my room in any property I stay at at I'd be checking out immediately and would be doing a credit card charge back on any charges.
Emoji is unnecessary and annoying.
What a spectacularky bad idea.
Maybe after that, don't respond to any reports of room invasions.
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This is quiet entertaining:

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He is a Trump supporter BTW.
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> One (general-purpose) register!

I'm currently making a hacking puzzle game prototype where you need to manipulate bits of memory to trick CPU into doing the things you want. Having a single register makes it much easier to design puzzles and also solving them. It also makes the gameplay more straightforward.
It will appear when (and I hope it's when rather than if) I complete the series. Then I'll typeset it properly and release the source under CC-BY-SA or another free license and make PDFs from it.
All or some?

Also: Freedom of speech is a gradient not a binary, so its loss is harder to notice if done slowly; ditto the balance between nationalisation and privatisation (the fomer I prefer lots; the latter, I don’t really care where the balance is so long as it’s not either extreme).
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Nearly all of them would not be on a high carb diet even the herbivore gorilla does not get its energy from carbs:

The macronutrient profile of this diet would be as follows: 2.5% energy as fat, 24.3% protein, 15.8% available carbohydrate, with potentially 57.3% of metabolizable energy from short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) derived from colonic fermentation of fiber. Gorillas would therefore obtain considerable energy through fiber fermentation.

The largest macro nutrient of nearly all apes boils down to fatty acids just through various different mechanisms.

Even the fruits they eat at very different non-domesticated ripen fruit and pith isn’t rich in sugar it’s rich in fatty acids.

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/127/10/2000/4722347

No offense but what ever vegan eat like an ape BS you’ve been sold on its categorically wrong.

The biggest thing these all “diets” ignore is the actual underlying energy mechanisms which change the macronutrient landscape of the diet completely as different apes and humans have different GI and metabolic paths.
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Because after Vietnam, Americans were not allowed to see the results of their warfare on television. Were it possible to publish war-crimes evidence freely and without military oversight, Americans would have much less lust for the wars they have been conned into paying for ..
Hello there yasbhagchandani

Lots of people get suicidal thoughts, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Lots of people get depressed. Lots of people find that they have lost their reason to show up for work when their startup changes into a larger company. Lots of people develop problems with sleep and drink.

You're not alone in facing these problems. Other people survived all these things and became happy again, and you can too, no matter how crazy or difficult that might seem to you just now.

Well done on making your startup successful. If you don't have an interest in that work any more now that it's changed, are there some other things you would like to work on? What would you do if the startup never existed? What would you do if you were completely free to pick any job in the world today?

Many of the things you feel are duties or obligations probably aren't, they just feel that way. You don't need to stay with your company; you can start another. Or you can take a career break and try some other work that gives your days value and meaning.

It sounds like working there isn't a source of joy to you any more. OK, you're free to leave the job any time you want. Anyone who tells you that you have to stay is wrong.

Have you spoken with a doctor about the feelings you're having? They will be able to give you advice and support in the short-term (less dangerous than alcohol) until you find your path again.

I know that in some cultures there is a stigma about seeing a doctor about depression. Ignore any stigma! The main thing that matters is finding your way back to happiness. A doctor will be able to help you to see the way more clearly and will give you directions to help you on the way.

It's probably best not to make any immediate changes until you speak with a doctor, but you can start making plans for things you want to do in the future that you think will make your life happier.

> please help me find a purpose in life.

Here is one to try: live for other people. Take joy from helping others and being kind to everyone you meet. Don't set your measure of success by what you have, but by what you give. Whenever you make someone else smile, you can smile with them.

Are there any jobs you could do that would help you to serve that kind of purpose?

Your former startup doesn't exist any more. Your old job doesn't exist any more. You are no longer tied to them. You can thank your colleagues and start a new job or a new company tomorrow if you want to. You can be free of that particular burden any time you choose to be.
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I've had good luck with caman (https://github.com/radiac/caman), but it doesn't do any of the fancy certificate installation bits. This looks neat and useful.
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Genuine question. What keeps you going?