skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted this partly to see how people would explain away the result.

4.78 RR for smoking one year after vaping for non-smokers is pretty huge. That’s definitely a clinically significant result. Smoking itself is the highest OR for lung cancer and therefore mortality of any behavior (in the 60s for Americans), and using cigarettes really dooms you to that outcome.

Nicotine patches, as transdermal delivery, don’t get people as high as Juul does, and that’s the likely reason you don’t observe either recreational use of them nor people becoming smokers from using them.
The problem is people trying to maintain ANY fixed gap. If they learned to treat the gap as a spring and then use their mind as a damper while still maintaining safety, they can cancel out many of the pathological oscillations and standing waves that disrupt traffic flow. This task is also much easier when people learn to monitor the road further ahead than just the bumper and taillights they are following.

Following too closely removes any margin for error and so requires you to either mimic every change in speed or create dangerous conditions.
Ethereum is planning to implement Lightning-like speed/scaling solutions.
Kind of. The ethanol that's put into the gasoline is derived from corn, which is heavily subsidized in America.
well not everyone needs to do something just so they can be marketable to other people

and when that isn't a concern, a stable well maintained language and framework is good enough. PHP has gone through a seemingly endless stream of vulnerabilities but if you actually patch your stuff then its fine.

for a web service or site, if you set your routes then nobody would see file extensions and would never know you are using PHP, so when you throw on the trendy bootstrap GUI on top, no one is the wiser and it performs just as well.

PHP may seem like an anathema solely because of its correlated and predictable use by out of touch fortune 500 companies that have vulnerabilities and horrible GUIs. But that isn't the fault of PHP.
If you have a strong skill set, just send resumes out to medium/large tech companies in the US. If it clicks, they might phone interview and possibly bring you in for an interview. Often times companies are desperate for good candidates that they will sponsor the paperwork for a H1B visa. My previous employer did this for two candidates and they turned out very good. Make sure the employer pays for all expenses for the legal stuff. They should also agree to moving expenses.
Good point. Not all MBAs are created equal. Undergrad degree and pre-MBA experience matters a lot.
People vs. Self-Driving Cars: “You can bully self-driving cars”
Technology and information overload are driving everybody to think their viewpoint is the suppressed majority, feeding a victim mentality. We seem to be working towards more of a massively individual polyculture than monoculture.
Also, we shouldn't always project everything into right and left, as there are other orthogonal dimensions for framing policy (eg. authoritarian and individualistic). That's a hidden cost of the creeping politicization of everything.
Are people becoming more risk averse, or do we have more people in precarious positions where they face more serious down sides if their gamble doesn't pay off?
php stands out for being extremely simple to use for new comers
Yes, they are already banned. So why should the FDA ban the sale of Juul entirely?
Would you mind sharing a source for this?
> The distinction between government and private groups is not a clean as you might think. At a large enough scale, private groups can start to take on a role in society that resembles that of a government, should we not then expect them to be held to a standard that resembles that we expect of governments?

Just after his Senate hearings, Mark Zuckerberg made some statements about preventing further election interference (obviously), and then went on talking about implementing new content-filtering policies within Facebook such as "community driven governance", an "appeal process" and even a "supreme court" and some sort of "due process" (Paris Vivatech 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0BnrHn6cA around 34:40)

Zuckerberg and his peers are not elected individual, they cannot be removed from office, etc. While not disputing his intentions, using tools traditionaly used within democracies doesn't make up for a democratic process. Substituting laws by terms & conditions, courts by a privately-owned justice system, is a slippery slope to say the least.
For me - I prefer fiction audiobooks over non-fiction. Non-fiction often requires re-reading certain paragraphs or flicking between sections to refresh my memory on certain points. But with a good fiction book I can just relax and let the words wash over me and get lost in the story.

My favourite book on Audible is The Green Mile by Stephen King read by Frank Muller. It's an experience that can't be matched by a physical book. The narration is top notch and you feel really invested in the story.
An interesting question for this is will governments start with 'electricity tax'. There will be a ~$40bn revenue hole from cars swapping to electric in USA. Even proportionally more in Europe and Australia where the fuel taxes are much higher.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/249129/us-state-and-loca...
What a cruel joke! That was a really great product.

I've completely given up hope of anything I love in technology lasting unless it's a paid product from a company that doesn't rely on advertising for revenue. Even then it's not perfect, but fuck if this isn't CLASSIC GOOGLE BULLSHIT.

Sometimes it's killing a perfectly good product (ala Reader) after getting everyone to emotionally invest in it, and then there's the equally frustrating aquihire. Sell the lie that the beloved product will continue and that the team is so excited for the Incredible Journey[1] ahead and then bam, bullet to the head. Product killed.

I still have scars from Reader, Sparrow, and Songza. And Mailbox! Looks like I switched to Fastmail just in time to avoid another heartbreak. Not too fancy but reliable AF and not going anywhere. Money well spent.

Between this and Apple's post-Steve product decisions I'm becoming a curmudgeon in this current world of technology, wishing we could turn the clock back the clock nine years to when things made more sense.

But honestly, in my fantasy world you know what I'd love to see? Some sort of statement that went along with an app detailing what their future plan is for cashing out or shutting down. Like, "If we don't survive as a business we will open source our product and provide an avenue for you to continue using it". Or, "We're building a sustainable lifestyle business and are not interested in being swallowed up by Google and being shut down" Or "We're looking to cash the fuck out ASAP! No guarantees; enjoy the ride!"

I have fun dreams.

[1] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
In day to day life I have a tremendous amount of social anxiety. When traveling alone I feel free to be open and generally ridiculous as the repercussions of a social faux pas are limited.
If you notice the article refers only to cases where there are warrants. So odds are someone who was arrested in 1972 for marijuana bonded out and never appeared for court. The court issues a warrant for failure to appear and the case is essentially suspended until the warrant is served and defendant brought before the court.

These kinds of things occurred from time to time in large waves like this. It’s usually a win for all parties, DA/prosecutors clear cases, judges get old cases off their docks, Police close these old warrants, some politician somewhere takes credit...the real irony some of these defendants will never know the difference.
In case you are sincerely interested, the literal very next section enumerates which other projects they borrow from and their corresponding directories in the repo. I'm sure you can come back with "the xv6 dependence is underspecified" or whatever, but maybe let's wait until it turns out you actually want to use any of this before getting excited about your troubles with the licensing.
Found the crypto nerd!
You can do event-driven and non-blocking IO in PHP. Check out a library like ReactPHP.
but it's no longer a single swipe - this was the best part of the Inbox snooze feature.
Way too reasonable, it'll never happen.
> Why don't you try it instead of sealioning on HN about it.

I'll probably try searching for "sealioning" first.

> the Linux desktop UX

which is the Linux desktop UX? We're not talking about Windows Aero or Apple Aqua. There is no "Linux desktop UX". If you're thinking of Gnome in particular, I'd agree with you though, but there are lots of other viable choices.
that sounds ad-hominem
The video won't load on Chrome for me, but it works on Safari. Is this Google's doing?
I think this [0] is a step in the right direction. I also think legislation regarding campaign finance, which would supersede Citizens United, is desperately needed.

[0] https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren...
Wait, what? Why?
Why the heck are e-cigs illegal for anyone? They're as harmless as theater haze.
Nosql and a jupyter workbook?
Very different for me: unless I'm in a busy and unknown city, driving is pretty much autopilot for my brain.

I guess that is why so many people try to do things like texting while driving. Not saying that's a good thing, just that I think many people feel the same way and their minds want to occupy themselves with other, more interesting things.

In case you can't relate, I guess it would be similar to taking laundry out of a washing machine. It's hard to automate in the sense that you still have to operate that five-fingered hand and think about whether you grabbed something, whether something you're half-holding might fall between the basket and the washing machine (if you have such a gap, that's something to watch out for), so there is definitely some thought to it, but it's also definitely mind-numbing (imagine doing this half an hour without interruption). If this really took half an hour, I bet many people would try to use their free hand to text or scroll past news.
Part of my decision for leaving Google was the insane left leaning bias within the company. I never outed myself as a conservative person because I've heard coworkers equate republicans to monsters.
So... Mozilla is like a condom Google wears to frobnicate the internet.
No. I grew up in inner city, poverty, single parent. Believe it or not most scientists are extremely generous with their time and these programs do exist for students who seek them out.
Assuming they are fixed rate loans, it would not effect capex purchases that have already been made. Less purchases would happen in the future though (only ones meeting the more stringent requirements on investment payback that go with a higher interest rate)
The biggest flaw in this study has gone unmentioned: smokers lie.

No one’s following these kids around to verify their responses are accurate. A sizable percentage of high school kids lie about anything for any number of reasons. Yeah man, I vape, can I go now? Yeah man, I smoke, are we done?

That alone is plenty to throw out this data. The agenda here is clear: more research funding to justify harebrained regulations supported by halfassed written surveys.
This is a blatant false dichotomy.

You can do meaningful work that will generate value/change that is largely unaffected by the political landscape (within reason). Sure every company would love tax breaks and subsidies but let's be realistic here.

> I would much prefer my company's leadership to acknowledge the politics inherent in our work and openly state their motives and point of view.

Most do. Companies just tend to avoid aligning themselves with a party and strictly speak of only specific issues and how said issue should be addressed to benefit their interests.
Joey Jumpkins Eats His Scabs
Perhaps it's that the more conversational nature of these media often makes it more acceptable to drift off for a minute.
Here's an alternate mirror as well.

[link removed]

Edit: I'm removing my own copy, since I just realized I didn't set up a contact for that site, and I'd rather play it safe than sorry. Others have mirrored it, and one's on YouTube at present:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gPdrlyc84
Okay, blackmail is absolutely interference. But you need to actually prove that blackmail is happening. There are plenty of other reasonable explanations for why so many of our allies elect pro-American politicians: namely that we're their super power buddy that carries the burden of dealing with other super powers. Even when we go off the reservation a bit (like Iraq), it's still much easier for places like France to stick with us than ditch us.
You know, sooner or later, someone will point to research like this and bring up something about homosexuality being a disease state.
Yes, but when I use the command line, it has absolutely no effect on other users who don't like the command line. When someone sends me a .docx, they've made a choice which affects someone else.
Except that's no longer the case, China's private sector is moving backwards and being squeezed out. The era of an ascendant private sector is over, Xi has shifted gears out of growth desperation. The Chinese Government is pushing all resources toward state enterprises again, and depriving credit to the private sector. It makes sense that when you consolidate power into one monolith, that monolith will prefer to consolidate power into fewer levers they directly control (massive, ineffecient state enterprises). That's a shift away from what had been an increase in decentralized economic control in the prior Deng-policy era.

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-11/china-tur...

"As growth stumbles, Beijing is falling back on a tried and trusted solution: using large, government-backed companies to spur activity. That’s squeezing out private and small firms."

"Higher borrowing costs, weak household spending and rising prices point to the beginnings of what could be a wider consumption downgrade. Meanwhile, fixed-asset investment growth is near record lows, and the fiscal situation is looking increasingly constrained."

"Operating conditions for small companies are getting worse, they’re holding inventory for longer, and the time it takes them to convert working capital into cash is increasing"

"The number of money-losing private industrial companies jumped about 40 percent as of June from a year earlier, while the number of unprofitable state-backed firms stayed flat. "
> once you get technical writers around and the team gets bigger, static documentation just doesn't cut it and is unable to scale

I feel that this is not convincing because docs for large software projects are also built using static site generators and git (e.g. docker).

In my case, we had many devs including a full-time technical writer contributing to the doc using Hugo and GitHub pull request and had no problems. I am curious what you think the bottlenecks of static documentation are.
There's a ton of basic CRUD apps and REST APIs being written in node for which the event-driven model is useless at best, and actively harmful at worst.

Looking around at actual production node code, huge swathes of it could easily be written in Rails, Django, or Symfony with no real loss of performance or developer productivity. (And given the maturity of those ecosystems, probably a net gain in developer productivity. Example: ORMs aren't great at everything, but sometimes they save you a lot of time, and Node doesn't have an ORM that can compare to ActiveRecord, Doctrine, or SQLAlchemy.)
Agreed, Hack appears to be a move to fork into a PHP-esque language that FB engineering feels will be better for their software lifecycle goals and needs:

- Handle numeric boundary cases in a more intuitive way.

- Is Typed.

- Replace reference parameters in favor of a new keyword, "inout".

- Change package management and testing framework to be less annoying and more streamlined. This will be yarn (from npm, as in the one written in Javascript), and their own custom flavor of testing framework, hh-test, to replace PHPUnit.

I wonder how many existing open-source PHP projects will remain compatible with HHVM? The post seems to indicate compatibility will not be a priority and that it's a fully breaking change. If this is true, it seems the "empty cocktail room" effect will be a major challenge and problem.

Jane:
"Hey, you can do this project in PHP or Hack."

Alice:
"Okay, I'll go with PHP because there's
already a shitton of good libraries that might
be useful to me or that I already know."

I.e. Why would you use a language with few open source libraries over a very similar language with exponentially more?

When I want types, I can already use Go, Java, or even Typescript, just to name a few terrific options. These days it seems like a no-brainer to me.

The effort seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to shave off some annoyances / "rogue hairs".

Curious if there's an angle I'm missing.

One argument for making it an open-source language / project and trying to eventually grow it could be so FB can more easily hire folks who are already know the Hack language.

Marke:
"I'll do it in Hack because my only dream is
to work at Facebook!"

May not be that many Marke's out there.
Maybe read the actual link:

"A partnership based on parallel thinking, singular vision, and mutual regard continues with a fresh new expression."

So clearly they had a lot to do with the actual product, substantially more than "zero."

You might also note that the actual face of the watch displays Hermès typeface and logo. I'm guessing you aren't familiar with Hermès because they don't need Apple.
I'd think that china had many more people in precarious positions than we do in the US. Perhaps it is that people are much more comfortable in the US and do not need to be entrepreneurial to have a decent life?
tl; dr: “We’ve found the color black resonates well with our brand...and our corporate soul.”
As a parent, I agree with you 100% and this is a big problem in the US because quality of teaching has gone down drastically over the past twenty years. I think teaching in public schools should be a mandatory public service (or highly incentivized ie loan forgiveness) for college graduates.
Well, my position on the subject is complicated and it is a struggle to condense it down into something reasonable.

Basically, there is no way whatsoever that being a capable and talented corporate leader makes your opinion somehow right. If anything, the comforts of great wealth and power make it less likely that their opinion actually represents the best interests of ordinary folk. So my starting point is that the opinion of Google's leaders is not more valid than anyone else's.

Then the second aspect is that they are on that stage in official capacities as leadership of Google. So they are representing the company's views to their employees.

Combining those two, why should republican voters in Google have to experience what is basically a public condemning of their vote? It isn't professional to publicly condemn the views of half your customers and potentially a large percentage of your workforce for no legitimate business reason.

Obviously, the concerns about possible immigration issues I would accept as completely relevant. I'm not sure if that has actually affected Google's business operations - but that aspect wasn't the main focus of the all-hands. The focus of the all-hands was clearly dismay that an unpopular Republican candidate had taken office. It wouldn't have happened had the alternative, an unpopular Democratic candidate, taken office.

So with these thoughts in mind, I don't think it is an acceptable situation. If this were a more traditional public company I'd like to believe professionalism would have been maintained.
I think it totally depends on who the reader is. Currently listening to Ed Thorpe’s A Man for all Markets while I walk the dog each day. I wouldn’t say he’s the best speaker I’ve ever heard but just the fact that it’s him has me gripped.

Dan Carlin’s podcasts, I could listen to him all day.
I have no comment on the content of this, since I don't want to get fired for saying anything remotely close to what I think. I am kind of curious how this video was obtained however.
I think fewer people are aware of underlying software generally. Presumably there are at most four categories for lots of end-users: "PCs", "Apples/Macs", "iPhones", "Androids". (Of course, more people are using Linux in some form or other now than they were 18 years ago, whether they know it or not.)
> Goverment officials can just ignore financial efforts of private companies, when their reelection campaign is not dependent on that money.

I'm not sure what you mean. Isn't the whole problem that winning elections is heavily dependent on money?
Depends on what kind of tests you're writing, but even there I'd say it takes too much concentration to do both. At least if you don't want to miss 50% of the fragment you're listening to.
This would be good to use for Medium posts, since the built in code formatting is so bad, especially, especially on the mobile app, since it won’t rotate to landscape.
That's ridiculous. One of the reasons nicotine gum isn't that successful is because of how nasty it tastes.

Why shouldn't those quitting smoking be allowed fruit flavours? I can only think you want them to fail and end up keeping on smoking tobacco.
Yeah I'm starting to think that I have to get a coworking space. There are some libraries and stuff, but they don't seem consistent.
> Seriously, what legitimate reason is there for a quitting tool to be more appealing than the thing being quit

If the quitting tool is less appealing, then it makes people more reluctant to quit. That's just simple logic.
Yeah, possibly...
I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by "frame pointer".

What I'm saying is that if a lambda is capturing local variables from a single stack frame by borrow (which ensures that it can't outlive them), then it doesn't need individual pointers to every variable. It just needs a pointer to the stack frame where they live, and it can access the individual variables by offset, same as the function to which that frame belongs does. It's compiler magic, of course - i.e. it means that such lambdas don't have a straightforward translation to a regular Rust object. But it's magic that behaves as if you had individual references, so it's a completely transparent optimization except for size of the resulting object.

On Intel architectures, you can think of it as stashing away EBP/RBP.

And lambdas that only capture locals from one frame, and all of them by reference, seems like a very common kind of lambda to me, making that optimization worthwhile.
Do you feel that Map/Reduce or Tensorflow are somehow tools of some sort of convoluted leftist, rightist or centerist agenda? Do the communists have an ideological position on large scale cheap computing?

Those technologies do not require Google to be politically active in any way. Saying they are inherently political is like saying a supermarket is inherently political. Might be true in some technical sense, but practically most people are happy to call it a public good.
Don't forget my favorite, Panic Driven Development
It depends what you're coding. Sometimes you're really just following an existing pattern, and doing essentially grunt-work.

If it's something new and requires some thought, then nooo lol you're not going to be able to take in any of that audio book, it's just going to be distracting.