skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely wrong. "Prohibition" was working. Smoking was dropping year after year, thanks to public policies like banning flavored cigarettes, packaging laws, ID laws, and taxes.

Now, tons of progress has been erased because these e-cigarette brands, some of them owned by the old tobacco companies, were allowed to get around all those restrictions. The FDA completely dropped the ball and moved in way, way too late. Sale to minors wasn't even banned federally until 2016!

This just puts some of them back in place so, once again, we can start working the problem down.

> The new regulations will pull vaping devices from stores and make it more difficult for those who do need them, thus making them go back to using cigarettes.

What proposed regulation are you claiming makes it harder for an adult to buy e-cigs? The FDA's tepid response was that flavored e-cigs must be sold in a closed-off area. That's it. Nevermind that part of the FDA's problem is that e-cigarette manufacturers were able to resist regulation by claiming in court they were not a nicotine replacement therapy, but in fact a new tobacco product for people who did not want to quit.

> Ever heard of the opioid / heroin epidemic that actually results in death and much worse health issues?

What happened to people making their own informed choices and putting what they want in their bodies?

Besides that - obviously the existence of other problems does not prevent us from dealing with this one, now. The facts, according to the article, are that our tremendous progress in eradicating nicotine addiction has been dealt a serious setback: millions of kids are addicted, most of whom would not have been smoking cigarettes, and vapers are more likely to become future smokers.
For anyone else who is a Google Cloud Customer. I 100% recommend "Exporting Billing Data to BigQuery" [1]. This takes less than 5 minutes and will give you near real-time extremely detailed billing data into BQ where you can explore it via SQL. Second, generate a real-time report off this data with something like "Visualize GCP Billing using BigQuery and Data Studio" [2].

That blog post is good, but it is over built in my opinion, all you really need is a single daily sum of all spend across your account and chart that. Maybe a stacked column with product color or something. This will allow you to quickly see if one product consumption is shooting up unexpectedly at a glance vs checking something at the end of the month and working with your account reps to figure something out.

6k z z
5k z z
spend 4k z z z
3k z z z
2k x x x x x x x x x
1k x x x x x x x x x
date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 d+

x = expected
z = unexpected

For example, maybe you left a test env running or something and all of the sudden you're spending an extra few K per day. Maybe you're doing some query loops over a large BQ dataset and racking up tons of $$. Put the chart up on your big TV screen in the Ops area so everyone can quickly check it with all your other metrics. When you're spending 100k+/month, with a few folks digging around the console, it's hard to notice an extra 5k-10k here or there. This quick tip will totally help you visually sanity check if something is off. So, this might not be a killer solution for folks spending a few thousand a month but will totally saves tens of thousands as you scale up.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-big...

[2] https://medium.com/google-cloud/visualize-gcp-billing-using-...
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This is all stuff covered in my undergrad International Political Economy class in the early 2000s, and I'm pretty sure none of it was fresh then. The benefits of the market largely exist in the margins between awful centralized abuse on one side and the unsustainable misery of the econ 101 perfect competition market on the other. States can, to some degree, determine where on this field the economies they create and guide land.
So, uh ... plants and animals wasn't enough? I feel so last millennium.
I think its part of that UX consistency you were praising. Vala's got 'nice' coupling with Gnome in the same way C# has 'nice' coupling with the Windows UI.

valac also compiles to C so no weird ABI stuff. No external runtimes or VMs required. I hate to say it but Gnome did something pretty neat with Vala.
One venue of coverage I seem to recall as being arstechnica.com . That would make sense in that they had and still have a strong presence in Chicago.

I'll look later for some old articles, if I don't get too distracted.

I'll consider what you describe and what you linked. From memory and off the cuff, it reminds me of all the fiber investment around that time that seemed to undergo a value implosion and leave substantial "dark fiber" waiting for new projects/investments to pick it up. MCI and Wordcom (?) come to mind. (And the bath that some investors took.)

If I was understanding one of them correctly, a year or two ago, my German friends could get high speed wireless Internet (from T-Mobile) at their newly purchased country home in the middle of the Eifel "Mountains" rural... "farmscape", I'll call it, for I think 40 Euro / month. Fast enough to stream, and no data cap.

Meantime, here I was still reduced to just Comcast, as AT&T had over the course of a decade and a half never upgraded my block's line that was so old and poor quality that it wouldn't even reliably support DSL. And I'm in the middle of suburbia in a fairly dense sub-division. Comcast wanted $95/month for their high-speed Internet (with basic cable TV, the way they price their packages; gotta keep their cable TV demographics up). And that was after arm-twisting one of their reps for a discount. In the meantime, that number's up to about $135/month.

Whatever the state of our technology, it's not translating here to effective competition and prices that compare to what friends are getting in Europe. Not even close. In my limited experience.

P.S. On the other hand, I'd hate to buy an expensive laptop over there.
Any ideas how to fight with grantoeaters?
This is the precision of a man who likes math.
> If you're a male child interested in science and in high school right now you've been through 8 years telling you that you should not go into science because they need more women of colour who follow the right religions and have the right sexual orientation. You're constantly bombarded with "SCIENCE DOES NOT WANT MEN".

This is profoundly contrary to my experience mentoring young students, the approach of my teacher friends and acquaintances, the experiences of family members. When this topic does come up -- and it does -- it's done specifically with the notion of normalizing the idea that people of all backgrounds can, should and will be scientists and mathematicians. It's entirely unproductive to the project of establishing a more welcoming future by, as you say, declaring "SCIENCE DOES NOT WANT MEN". The loss of an exclusive status does not necessarily imply a discriminatory regime, though you've clearly framed things that way for yourself. Governments aren't "shaping science funding to punish having male staff" they're preferentially awarding funding to labs that are not exclusively or predominately male. I know enough excellent scientists who've been chased out of labs on account of sexual harassment to know that there's _plenty_ of reasons for a lab to be exclusively male besides "merit and talent". In fact, I argue that if you allow systematic inequalities to shape a field you're specifically undercutting people who might otherwise have succeed because of their talents and drive.

> I'm sorry but science has to go through a decline in the West for a bit.

The real issue, as others have pointed out in this thread, is the need for scientists to chase funding at all times, whether by seeking out grants or side-gigs in graduate school to supplement a meager stipend. The issue is emphatically not that your favored subset of humanity isn't esteemed like you think proper.

Fix your heart.
Interesting. A lot of this is because of imperfect information and transaction costs. I wonder if firms running R&D choose a different route and if that works. Perhaps even random resource allocation would do a better job since it removes the incentive to falsify though it does add an incentive to participate in bad faith.
Strange easter egg in Google search?
Surprisingly to see such error in google search, when i searched for' advanced persitent threat' I get: Server Error
We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.
Please try again later.

https://www.google.ro/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&ins=&q=advanced%20persitent%20threat
That's true, but not specific to sleep deprivation - other methods of easing depression such as SSRI also increase the likelihood of self-harm. I would imagine sports can have similar effect.

My pet theory is that there are several conditions that look like "depression", one of them is produced by the body to prevent self-harm resulting from acute anxiety. This theory has two important consequences:

1) Trying to ease certain kinds of depression via medication or other direct-action tools is likely to cause unintended side-effects (self-harm, anxiety, mania) that the depression was there to prevent.

2) The body will fight back against any direct intervention, trying to reinstate control over unbalanced psyche, e.g. building up tolerance to medication. A more fruitful approach would be to locate and eviscerate the underlying anxiety-inducing problem; the depression should then lift on its own accord.

Like I said, it's just a pet theory, but it leads itself to validation.
> And if nothing else, it can be derived: a mole is the number of atoms in a kilogram of carbon-12. Done.

No longer is. Not quite.
But I can't do these things on Windows 10 either, I tried to put all my installed software on D: and when I had an update I was unable to install it because Windows couldn't work out where my stuff was which required a reinstall to install the update. Now I have to manually enter 'D' prefix on all installations, and that's for software that actually lets me!

The Linux package managers aren't perfect, but overall offer more flexibility for what I personally need.
So... Why not use macOS?
Regulator 'stunned and terrified' after causing PG&E stock surge
This. I've been using AWS for my side projects, but strongly considered moving to GCP at some point. Sometimes I swear I feel like I need a phd in AWS literature to even set up a box with the "right" permissions for my friends. Sure, I'm no sysadmin, but it's mind blogging that setting up a cloud instance feels harder than doing it all on premise.
Anybody could reproduce this?
> We don't need more of them

> 500 person lecture halls

I love evidence-based pedagogies like active learning, which are demonstrably better for most students than "medieval style" lectures. I would like to be able to teach that way all the time, but if you want professors to actually be able to interact meaningfully with each student, you need small classes. If you want small classes, you need more professors. So yes, we do need more of them, in that case.
If google starts "dogfooding" and moves all of their compute/storage, etc to being purchased from their cloud division, then they would be the worlds largest cloud vendor the next quarter.. That would be pretty interesting to see..
Or enabling full-drive encryption without a password ... as long as you are using the default AWS-managed keys.

I don't make any real adjustments to my risk models until I enable customer-managed keys. At this point, the encryption is really facilitating a secondary access control mechanism audit mechanism. That said, these additional mechanisms can be quite effective when you know how to use them.
Tata Immigration Case Could Shake IT Companies to ‘Very Core’
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That's great. That doesn't excuse their easy availability and the clear marketing toward children. That's how the media and government need to be held accountable.

Care to provide a link or example? Because I have yet to see any. Every convenience store that I have been in has most tobacco products hidden and any ADs have just text and no pictures.

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That there are more dire issues doesn't mean we can't tackle less dire ones. The real tragedy is if the government had been on the ball, this would have never been a problem in the first place. E-cigs should have been much more heavily restricted, no flavorings allowed, etc., then people could have still quit smoking and we wouldn't have a teenage nicotine addiction epidemic. As it is, e-cigs have been sold as something basically completely safe and fun, and consequently millions of children are now addicts.

My personal opinion is that you can't expect the government to protect me or you from every single threat. Adding more restrictions, creating a black market and lying is not going to help address this. I still want to see example of ADs that appear to be targeting children to buy e-cigarettes.

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E-cigarettes helped your friends stop smoking. Great! But apparently they're helping other people start.

So, the real question is WHERE are they getting them since all sources require an ID to get them and making them more illegal or difficult to get most likely won't stop them from getting them.

My opinion is that energy would be better spent at addressing immediate health issues and this issue could have been avoided if parents + school administrators + the community were more involved. I don't buy "we could not smell it" since most vaping stuff does have a sweet smell to it.
The resume I was talking about is, as I see it;

Diane was a founder of VMWare. VMWare was very successful at getting Enterprise customers to convert their massive single use servers into "Liquid IT" where VMWare instances ran the world. NetApp, when I was there, was selling a bunch of NAS into clouds of servers running VMWare. Then she left VMWare and started BeBop, a company that was dedicated to getting Enterprises to move their applications into virtualized compute clusters. When she was acquired/hired by Google is seemed like a slam dunk that she was the person who was going to make Google Cloud the premier service for Enterprise companies to host their infrastructure on.

As I read it, that was very much in line with where Google saw Google Cloud going.

Then we see from the market analysts that Microsoft has (according to the analysts here, I can't really vouch for them) edged Google into third place in the 'Cloud' market by capturing Enterprises moving their applications to the enterprise space.

Then we see Google replacing their head of cloud with a high power sales guy.

And as always, "reading the tea leaves" as an analyst might say, is always an inexact science. So folks outside the situation (like myself) can't know what is really going on.

> Based on my experiences with Diane she was an extremely gifted technical talent and an extremely poor saleswoman and leader.

This seems to be a pretty damning statement, as someone who has direct experience with Diane, what did you see that she could have done differently?
How does that one square with the fact that the median income for women is lower than the median income for men while the median income for all groups correlates positively with intelligence?

Seems like that kills the hypothesis that women are making better career decisions across the board optimizing for pay.
And then you have moved stuff around and solved absolutely nothing, but you have created a new, permanent surface for security issues.
wait.. Does AWS or Azure? that seems like a good way to get someone fined..
How long till it ends up in the gardening section of lowes?
Ridiculously few people die of fatal familial insomnia
It makes 'more sense' to change the metric system to be base 12, because base 12 is very nice.

And really, you can use kilo seconds or terra seconds just as easily as micro seconds. Its just harder to relate to as human time-scales.
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Politicians come and go and can't be trusted to understand or even appreciate science. Something that will not probably pay benefits before four years is a negative sum game for they.
The "Tides of History" podcast covers this period in Episode 13 in relation to the fall of the Roman Empire.

https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/

It particularly focuses on the experiences of the average person in Italy, which not only suffered plague and failing crops, but was being torn apart during a long period of warfare between the Romans and the Goths.

Rome itself was largely abandoned in this period, leaving a very small population, the aqueducts were destroyed during sieges, and the poor farmers were frequently victimized by the armies passing through, stealing their already meager food supply and spreading disease. It was a terribly time to be alive.
Well, then you are welcome for us keeping the more poetic units alive and meaningful.
Please have a look at nix and solaris first. Both are making a compelling case against your answer
You can’t advertise no new training if you update the training material.
You can now get the Au Cheval burger at lots of places easily. I do 3 greens regularly. It’s a fine burger.

The real shame is that Au Cheval used to be a nice spot for a beer & burger on a street that was expensive.

Still hard to find good priced, good food on Randolph.
Aren't parts of the F35 built in all congressional districts? That provides the major motivation for anything related to building more of them.
This kind of attitude towards less popular programming languages is very damaging to the field of software engineering. Domain-specific languages are our best tool to combat the excessive complexity of software. The difficulty of learning a new programming language is overblown.
So, someone at the DoD re-discovered the Combined Arms doctrine?
Jokes aside, I've always wondered why people don't try to get more user adoption for BSD.
Because every weapons program is also a jobs program .
Stable, and complete:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/14248
Wonder if there is an updated version to this with better value?
> If you're a male child interested in science and in high school right now you've been through 8 years telling you that you should not go into science because they need more women of colour who follow the right religions...

I have an 8th grader in California public schools, and this is just not at all the case here. There is a general STEM push that is sweeping many of the kids up. There is occasional special note of girls who are good at these subjects, but it doesn't seem to be at the expense of boys.

The notion of "following the right religions" is even more out of touch with reality. At least in California. Are you seriously suggesting that, say, Muslim children are being specifically encouraged to go into science, and (say) Catholic kids are discouraged?
I'm shocked to the point of disbelief on this as well, this does not pass the smell test for me. Anybody, especially doctors, should have been well aware of the risks, this was not a surprise to anybody with as much as a toe in the public health sector.
So it’s a replacement for macOS that looks just like macOS? Hmm...
This isn’t actually an IMSI catcher - it is just passively looking at C0
I never said neat. The point is, if you don't sign your name frequently, then you don't develop a "hand" that stays the same across multiple executions of your signature.
1) Hypothesis testing, significance testing, and NHST are all different things

2) P-values seem ok as a way to check how well your model fits the data. The problem is testing a strawman model/hypothesis.
“If we start to focus on ourselves instead of focusing on our customers, that will be the beginning of the end,”

Is that a jab at Google, with all their constant killing of services that were used and loved, and their drama about internal policies and politics?
California's Gold Nugget Museum Lost to Camp Fire Flames
There are links to each library included, which will let you look at galleries of examples that are much more helpful than any single image would be. But if you want to collect images from each library, feel free to post that in the comments!
Facebook moves to limit toxic content as scandal swirls – WIRED audio
Airflow and tools like it are probably the biggest reason for the shift. Another issue is the need to integrate different technologies requires having the skills of a software engineer.

When the landscape for tech in DE was oracle, mysql and Cognos, DE's didn't need to know about OOP or consensus algorithms. Because the landscape now includes hadoop, redshift, kafka, spark, airflow, notebooks, TiDB and lord knows what else, DE's need to have most of the skills of a software engineer to be successful.
>Wall Street banksters who received big bonuses for packaging up mortgages they knew would not be repaid

Who underwrite the loans? Who recommended the loans be written?

The whole thing is complicated. A single article is nothing more than a start.

I'm ony phone, but I highly suggest researching each party and their justifications for their actions and make your own conclusions rather than expecting some external source to spoon feed it to you.