skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandmother had nine sisters. All nine of them died in their 60’s from emphysema and lung cancer. All told fifteen people in my family died from smoking related illness. These early deaths were absolutely devastating to us kids as they happened in rapid succession.

Vaping saves lives. Vaping saves lungs. Let’s just continue to get people off of burning cigarettes and we can tackle nicotine addiction once cigarettes are a bad memory.
> nicotine addiction kinda sucks

Sucks more than caffeine addiction?
This is good information, but to quibble, "noticeable" does not mean "not good enough". Being able to notice a difference doesn't mean it matters to the user; that's more subjective and both versions might be considered fine by many users.

For example, I'd be surprised if most users would care about reading text while moving it quickly. (Well, maybe they would care with sufficient advertising?)
Because not using HTTPS allows an end user's ISP to inject their own ads on their rendition of your website. Whether these ads are for third parties or are telling them about how much data they have left on their monthly plan, I think we can agree that protecting users from their scummy ISP or potential bad actors on their Network by throwing https onto your site is worth it.
Yeah, definitely sounds like a good read.

Interestingly a great deal of progress can simply viewed as reducing or containing entropy.

Whenever a claim is made that something "improves developer productivity" I am very dubious of that claim. Instead I try to evaluate it along the axis of "how much entropy does this help contain? And what ways does the abstraction leak? That is to say where is this thing adding to the overall entropy of the system?". I find that gets better mileage.
Pre-Islamic Arabia was polytheistic
Sure. Equally, if you're going to punch yourself in the face, better to do it once than to do it ten times.
Or not? What the hell kind of attitude is this?
Thanks for taking the time to lay out your ideas. I largely agree but I think individual-choice solutions are generally an unsatisfactory answer to what are often collective action problems.
TensorFlow Lite sounds like a good idea, but they don't talk at all about how to build it. "Run this shell script" is neither saying what the requirements are, nor does it give any idea about supported targets. How I hate this new trend of not documenting anything.

This might be usable if it doesn't require Bazil. Requiring that makes deployment much, much heavier and makes the whole process significantly more complex.

"Embedded"? Does that mean ARM to these folks who don't know how to version and how to document?
> Quora seemed like the Silicon Valley solution to this problem with too much focus on monetization ahead of establishing a truly great experience.

I think that pretty much sums up how I feel about Silicon Valley and what it's come to stand for. Earlier, it was about building something cool that people used (and make a good living doing it). Then some of those cool things ended up making so much money, that now it's not about making creating, it's about making money.

The same thing happened with the mobile app stores. First it was about people making cool stuff that was useful, and then a few stories came out about how insanely lucrative some apps ended up being, and everyone wanted to make the next app and get rich.

Since this seems to be a natural emergent phenomenon with how our culture and technology interact, I guess I'm just hoping that somewhere along the lifecycle of the phenomenon it settles into a more sane paradigm where everyone isn't constantly on step X of what is essentially a get rich quick scheme.
Probably, no. My guess is it contains small metal particles. But if I wanted to determine that, I wouldn’t look at a photo. I would read the ingredients.

A lot of cosmetics straight up contain phthalates as an intentionally added ingredient.
Vox did a video[0] on Juul’s
marketing. Moral issues aside I thought the whole idea was genius. Not surprised they are printing money.

[0]. https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFOpoKBUyok
American Airlines Prompts Frequent Flyers to Leak Their Own Personal Data
> there is no static guarantee that value is invalid if error is not nil

There doesn’t need to be. An error was returned computing the return value, so it doesn’t make sense to use the value. And if there is something useful to be returned, then you’re dealing with a product type anyway.

RE monads, I don’t know why they’re hard to understand, but they are notorious. Probably because they’re more abstract than is helpful in the majority of programs, and they’re often just used to play code golf, removing bits of boilerplate that were never really harmful to begin with (like error handling).

I actually like monads and excessive abstraction in general, but that’s because I appreciate a sort of mathematical elegance beyond what is helpful for shipping a product. When I program to feel clever, I use languages like Haskell. When I want to get things done, I use languages like Go. It doesn’t mean Go is better than Haskell or that monads are bad in some absolute sense; only that in general they cost more than they contribute when the objective is shipping a product. Similarly, Go is totally lacking when I want to build something very abstract.
You might be right for smokers who transition to vaping. I would bet money that you are right. When my patients ask me, I tell them my guess, and I am emphatic that it is a guess. We will know the right answer at some point.

However, the concern is that nicotine use is on the upswing among young people (edit: previous nonsmokers) for the first time in many years. If vaping is anything short of harmless, which I think we must presume it is, then this is a brewing problem.
The Goal was a surprise hit for me this year. It was a recommendation from an airplane seatmate some months ago. Lots of good advice on starting to analyze systems for bottlenecks.
One thing that’s overlooked is that half of smokers die from heart disease, not lung disease. It also causes strokes. Nicotine is terrible for your heart and vaping is as bad or possibly even worse in that respect.
> I'm now locked out unless I upload a driver's license or passport id to prove my identity.

No, If you wait long enough (12-24 months of inactivity) they'll email you a magic "open sesame" link that bypasses the login screen. No account password or session cookie needed.

There's several interesting things about this:

1) You could modify the "open sesame" link to login as anybody else who is inactive.

2) Your profile will be slightly broken, as they do numerous software updates weekly apparently without migrating inactive account data reliably.

How do I know this? My gf handles 100% of our social media presence, so I just have a FB account for occasional software testing. HTH! :)
At least 43 killed when tsunami hits beaches in Indonesia
It's a new cross platform UI framework with excellent performance. I'm not surprised people (myself included!) are interested to learn about how it does what it does.
Your other comments say you have adhd — do you take medication for adhd? And if not do you consider urself “unmedicAted?”

What did you replace your juul addiction with ?
Isn't it fascinating how _little_ Paul refers to Jesus' own biographical life though? We know that the gospels are likely younger than Paul's letters and that Paul is one of the earliest missionaries to the Gentile world. And when we read Paul's letters, they're far more direct and practical in content than everything else in the NT. So is it that over time, as early Christian's earliest leaders died out, a fascination with just _who_ this Christ was vivified? As well, wouldn't this dating make Paul's letters the most authoritative liturgical documents?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/dec/23/indonesia...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-tsunami/volcano...
Orally has no meaning since there is no clealy fixed LD50 for inhalation. which is what mattersin this discussion.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/54115.html

Note that rats have a LD50 at 50 so the measureyou gave for LD50 in humans seems very, very conservative.
Ignoring the fact the the science is still out on vaping (though I agree that it's likely safer), if you look the graph in the article, vaping doesn't seem to be a substitute for cigarettes among 12th graders. The decline in smoking is unaffected. To say "vaping saves lives" isn't backed up by the data for 12th graders.
>tends to be written in Rust.

Nobody uses Rust in production. Why such thoughts in general?
Non-lexical lifetimes, which were just recently stabilized [1], make many of the most common cases of borrow checker frustration "just work". And now that the groundwork is done, even more cases will likely be supported in the future.

[1] https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/edition-guide/rust-2018/...
Our failure to do something about carbon (in the last 30 years we've comprehended it) doesn't diminish the progress made.

We wouldn't be having this conversation but for the Industrial Revolution, because none of us would be wealthy enough (in real terms) to afford the technology to do so.

Indeed, the technology itself likely wouldn't exist because the world as a whole wouldn't be wealthy enough to afford the research.

Avoiding progress out of fear for its effects is Luddite in the truest sense. And I don't say that pejoratively -- simply to note that it's tantamount to advising "Stop making progress!"

Innovate. Overcome challenges. Build and discover a better future.
That's a good overview of papers in favour of vaping -- but note there's some conflict of interest concerns:

> Conflict of interest statement: Riccardo Polosa... has served as a consultant for Pfizer and Arbi Group Srl (Milano, Italy), the distributor of Categoria™ e-Cigarettes.

> Konstantinos Farsalinos ... has received financial compensation from electronic cigarette companies for the studies’ cost.

And some bold statements like this point that seems to be strongly contradicted by the chart at the top of the OP:

> Regulatory authorities have expressed concern about EC use by youngsters or by never-smokers, with ECs becoming a gateway to smoking or becoming a new form of addiction. However, such concerns are unsubstantiated; research has shown that EC use by youngsters is virtually nonexistent unless they are smokers.

All that said, this review does provide some evidence that vaping is less harmful -- however I'd take it with a pinch of salt.

For example, these two papers on negative effects of vaping on gene expression in the immune system have since been published:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436899/

(Reported in the popular science press e.g. here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160620141317.h...)
Punching yourself is harmful. How much evidence regarding the harm of vaping do we have presently?
A coworker recently left for Juul. It was an inside joke, of sorts, that a lot of their growth is driven by minors.
good plan... but I think we hoping you would show us :)
Didn't know that. What happens after -4?
For what it's worth, most stuff designed that way could be from the 80s. Only now it's cheaper and smaller. I mean NES emulators, 10MHz 8080 clones.
It that is true, how could Quora's quality go downhill so quickly when its revenue depends on it?
I'm pinging our support team to see if someone can help you get to the bottom of this.
> Until now, nicotine was used exclusively by smokers and ex-smokers.

You're forgetting chewing tobacco.

Also, I hardly think we have insufficient data on nicotine itself, with all the people using and the testing done on nicotine patches. Those had to go through FDA approval.
Some of you might be interested in a good example of an article about a small town done right...
>> http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/7/richland-wash...
and (of course) lgbt.
> "But they are provoking bullshit wars."

No not actually. Hyperbole is fine but don't confuse it for the real thing.
Image or facial recognition. You could make a home security system.
Indonesia tsunami: 43 dead and 'many missing' after Anak Krakatoa erupts
YouTube seems like they're stuck between a rock, and a hard place. The stakes for copyright infringement seem to be getting ever higher. The EU's Article 13 is perhaps the most extreme example of this, which effectively expects platforms to be prescient and in whether or not content is infringing. On top of this, the extremely large amount of content YouTube hosts make it effectively impossible to manually review a large number of videos This puts a huge pressure on the platform to be strict with copyright infringement, and to try and minimize false negatives even at the cost of false positives.

To make matters worse, the media companies filing the copyright claims are the established players that are getting disrupted by internet services like YouTube. These companies have zero incentive to avoid false copyright claims, and it seems like they have no accountability for the instances where they flag unambiguously non-infringing videos. If you're even more cynical, they actually have an incentive to file bogus claims as it degrades the experience of using YouTube and thus hurts the established media companies' competitor.

The main solution I see is to have some element of accountability on the one filing the copyright claim. E.g. charge $X for every false claim. Or revoke the copyright holder's ability to file claims if they exceeding a certain number of false claims, or they they flag unambiguously non-infringing videos. Give the ones filing claims a strike, for once. But as far as I can tell, enforcing these mechanisms would put YouTube and other platforms in violation of the DMCA which is effectively a death sentence for such a platform.
I've been writing C++ since 1995, and programming since 1965. I'm sorry but this stuff is incomprehensible, opaque and cryptic. I don't see how it improves productivity and maintainability. Although I do find the STL very productive.
As far as I can tell they have 10x or 20x the nicotine strength of normal vapes, and a much harder hit. Juul seem to be 59mg/ml, most regular juice I've come across has been 12, 6 or 3. Highest I ever saw, online, was 18.

Highest I ever tried was 12, which was recommended to start when I switched from a 20 a day cigarette habit, in a simple pen vape. I couldn't tolerate it for longer than about a week before dropping down to the next juice down.

Traditional vapes break into 2 types. Pen vapes don't produce much heat so liquids tend to be a bit stronger. They'd use mostly 6, 12 or 18 strength liquids. Vape mods (silly name as they're not modified, so I don't know what the mod is meant to mean) have a larger battery pack with separate tank and lower resistance coil. They're usually a fair bit larger than any pen or cigarette. These produce much more vapour so usual strengths are 3 and 6. I would expect Juul to be at the lower end of vapour amount as the cartridges are so tiny.

I can't imagine the hit from Juul, and can't imagine ever trying one. It'd be like chain smoking 4 cigs. I quit vaping totally already anyway. :)

They haven't yet launched in the UK, but I'm doubtful they'd be allowed at that strength. (Israel banned them, having set max strength at 20mg/ml).

Juul seem around 10x the price too. I used to pay £1 - £2 for 10ml of juice that would last well over a week, often 2. Juul cartridges are tiny, $4 each but supposedly last about a day or two.

Last, but not least, they're 40% owned by Philip Morris (Marlboro).
Too expensive, outsource it to rewrite in JavaScript
I don't believe I can.

I'm honestly flabbergasted that I read "Burn the mechanized mills!" on Hacker News.

I'm not advocating groupthink, and there are certainly ways we could have built a better present, but the blind ungratefulness to say "Mass manufacture and electricity were mistakes" deserves some outrage.
I think comments under this article are more important than linked work itself
I installed the O&O ShutUp program, which lets you disable updates indefinitely.
> and the curve radius increases exponentially vs speed.

It's merely quadratic if I recall correctly
It contains nicotine, and nicotine is addictive. So health risks aside (not to say there aren't any, I guess we'll find out) you are being exposed to a product that will make you physically dependent on buying it again and again. That's not a good thing for anyone except the owner of the company selling it to you.
Thank God I'm not the only one. I looked at this and my eyes glazed over.
12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson
I've heard that certain compounds in tobacco act as MAOIs that synergize with nicotine, creating a more rewarding experience.

People that would have never smoked before they were introduced to vaping might be more likely to try and enjoy tobacco products because they feel better than nicotine does on its own.
I tried pipe smoking over the summer - even found an amazing blend (Nightcap, RIP.) I found it's significantly harder to have a good smoke compared to a cigar. Sometimes the tobacco just refuses to stay or become lit (properly charred, tampered and everything) or once it does it just ends up tasting terrible...then it goes out, I end up frustrated. Any tips you might have?
https://www.hackerearth.com/hackathon-handbook/

this one?
I like the gist of this approach. A few years ago, I read about some books of the legendary (non-software) engineering projects in the past. Engineers were very cognizant of risk and costs, far more than I see in software practice. With some reflection, I think that's just a defect on our field's part, not and not only because the software game is different.
I was having an argument over 1password's 2fa support not being a second factor. (I don't think it is.) However, it is so much safer than not using 2fa. In similar terms U2F is amazing and keeps you from being phished and has a great challenge/response protocol, if that was implemented in 1password (or browsers themselves thank you!) we'd all be a lot safer than not using it at all.

In 2018 I'm using an app to take screenshots of QR codes to generate one time codes. It's a sad state of the art, we need to do better.
Do you always demand that every person who comments on a subject compile a meta-study for your perusal?

From what I’ve read, most of the damage from cigarettes comes not from nicotine but other carcinogens present along with the combustion. Of course more research needs to be done on nicotine itself as well as the other compounds present in vaping liquids.. but nothing I’ve read has indicated that nicotine is even close to being as dangerous on its own. It’s probably not harmless, but then again, many things people consume on a daily basis, like coffee, probably aren’t either.
yep, depleted uranium bars are used within helicopter blades to equalize the momentum along their length. it's a very heavy metal
I also enjoyed Longitude when I read it, but it's been described as "suffer[ing] however from a major flaw, it is a distortion of the real history it is claiming to relate."

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/dava-sobel-tries-her...
I'm sorry but your examples are little more than fanciful projections. Also, the fact that your refer to Shiva as the Hindu deity with multiple pairs of arms makes me think you are woefully uninformed about the religions and cultures you're projecting onto.
Because there's simply no way an honest person will ever become a member of that government. And even if, by miracle, they do, the pay is so laughably bad, they won't be able to survive, let alone prosper. The entire structure of the government is based on the "understanding" that money will just "disappear" from time to time. Merely changing the top bosses changes nothing, and if anything the new ones have a more ravenous appetite.

I know it might be difficult for US or Canadian natives to understand this. But people from most of the rest of the world know exactly what I'm talking about.
The stereotype of Japan being overcrowded comes from high-density wards in the middle of Tokyo. Everywhere else, there's plenty of unused land. In fact, the government is trying to give away 8 millions of abandoned homes in areas where the population is declining: https://www.thisisinsider.com/japan-program-free-abandoned-h...

While Tokyo keeps growing at the expense of smaller cities and rural areas, a constant supply of new, taller buildings kept prices from skyrocketing like they did in London, New York, and San Francisco. Today, Tokyo doesn't feel like an overcrowded city: public transportation keeps expanding and increasing capacity, traffic jams are exceedingly rare, and the municipality has been hard at work to plant more trees and improve the air quality.

Quality of life is truly excellent here. You can see for yourself by watching some of these excellent videos made by a Canadian national who relocated to Japan 5 years ago with his family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwxJts-6yF33rupyF_DCsA
In Part 3 of my GraphQL series, we build querying capability into a freshly created React client.

We'll use Apollo Client's <Query> component. Also, we will cover the special case of executing multiple unrelated queries from a single React component.

Back when I first came across this use case, I was scratching my head

Just like we modularize code to make it reusable, we should do the same for queries. Fragments allow us to do this.

Despite careful documentation, it's easy to get client and server data structures out of sync – resulting in painful bugs.

I show you how to avoid this by generating TypeScript definitions from our schema and using them in React components.
First Robotics is a worldwide robotics competition that was started years ago by Dean Kamen. This year’s challenge is called Rover Ruckus and simulates a Rover landing on an alien planet. There is a 30 second autonomous mode wherein one of the challenges is to use a camera to discern where a gold mineral lies in a field of two silver and one gold minerals. My son’s team uses Tensor Flow to accurately discern which mineral is the gold.
I wondered when someone would bring up MUMPS. Imagine an industry where everything was written in Fortran-66.
I have to read it now. Been on my list all year!
"The Everything Store," was very enlighting to me on Bezo's thoughts on business. It's just one nugget from the book. All the Amazon news stories that are propagation these days aren't really surprising once you read the book. Bezo's primary view on business is that you must work hard to get by in this world. All who do will get by and even thrive. All that don't will not. A Dog eat Dog kind of view. It's very good. I highly recommend it.
Confused, how are these common use cases, and how is this "just working"? In both examples on that page there is an unused variable (seems rare to do intentionally?) and in the second case where one of them is used, it seems they just elaborated the error message.
- Bad Blood
- Black Edge
Zero to One
Capitalism in America
Enough
A simple Python web server using Asyncio
There is an mgr-specific program called "mgreyes.c" included in the source tarball. So it was probably a from-scratch clone.
We just posted up info about the hotfixes going live and I think you'll see your ideas!. This blog post lays out what we're doing: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions.
Programming is more a meta-profession, it tries to automate and eliminate the boring or repetitive part of all professions.

I don't think we can ever standardize programming any more than we can standardize humanity's collective goals and ambitions.
I only have one point of criticism (although this is really nice).

It's a little strange to have the responses changing so drastically between requests. Sometimes nothing is returned, sometimes one item is returned, and sometimes many items are returned. I would prefer if the responses were a little more consistent, or if this behavior was configurable.