skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this happened with a few co-workers. They got ads about things we spoke about at work and shared it with the group on slack. After nagging them about uninstalling FB for a while, the targeted ads scared some of them to finally uninstall the always listening FB spyware from their phone(s)
FFS. If you're prescribed a medicine and it doesn't work, then if it was a placebo, it didn't work. Not hard to verify at all. A drug that doesn't work isn't going to be any less effective than a placebo. Placebos are not 100% effective. We know this because we can identify when they don't work.

If you give me a sea-band and tell me it is "powered by placebo", and it doesn't do shit, then the placebo doesn't work. That's even easier to figure out.
You certainly have an interesting perspective on what you did there.

That comment would be equally as worthwhile and useful if you had started it with some other form of bias to justify it like "Wait, a woman who is black ...."

If your comment starts with some form of "well you are an x so ...", it's probably not actually addressing anything other than your own interesting biases against people.

Or you know, just dismiss whatever you want with bias and claims of whataboutism.
I guess that works too!

Despite your claim of whataboutism, i'm instead showing the author is incredibly conveniently eliding large parts of actual history in trying to make their point.
You may want to argue those shouldn't matter (or make it worse). That's at least a more valid argument than you made.

I would argue if you asked most people they do in fact matter because the world is not an abstract idealist paradise.

The internet definitely never has been in the past, so saying it isn't in the future is not particular interesting.
My surprise is not that Facebook did this, but that developers within Facebook built this privacy violating ecosystem without question or publicly voiced concern.

You guys sold your family and friends out for RSUs.
Just claim he was a russian neo-nazi, that should get the courts kicking into action.
Kirk Douglas is still alive, he turned 102 this year. He's the father of Michael Douglas. Old school Hollywood
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Switched from cigarettes to JUUL after 10 years of smoking.

I agree on the coughing, but from a straight-up nicotine delivery standpoint, cigarettes seem more pronounced for me.
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People occasionally boil cigarettes to commit suicide but it's rare, people rarely die from arsenic in the water/soil either but it does not negate the fact the substance is indeed poisonous
On the contrary, body-odor based mating and other biological drivers of attraction is basically how >99% of mammalian couplings have been formed, with great success. It may be due to the link between immune system diversity and body odor based attraction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odour_and_sexual_attrac...
I remember an interesting summary posted on HN back in 2013 about nicotine and tobacco. This was before vaping became popular, but the case he made was that nicotine is actually not very addictive on it own, but seems to reinforce addiction in the presence of other compounds found in tobacco (e.g., MAOIs). Lots of primary sources given.

So what else is in vaping liquid?

"Nicotine as a useful stimulant" (gwern.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457772
I don't understand why we're not allowed to be skeptical of accusations once the masses have decided that a company is evil. Aren't you at least curious about what they actually did and how they made decisions?

It's quite possible that, even at a company that has done some bad things, other things have a more innocent explanation.
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was it the net promoter score?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter
There isn't much to break anyway. Remember it's a Lisp.
It's the process of leaving childhood, "the only utopia" as Hayao Miyazaki once said and entering adulthood which usually implies having responsibility/taking care of others.
If they deliver on a fast and light relatively unsafe EV, free of all this pervasive surveillance/autonomous garbage, at a competitive price point, I'm buying one.
Everyone says "it's not about the solution but how you go about solving it", but it's never been my experience as an interviewee. Every time I've been interviewed with one of these godawful trivia questions I've been denied even though I do my best to work with the interviewer to solve it. On the rare occasion I get feedback it has been because I didn't solve the problem optimally or some other nonsense.
> An efficient implementation of a hash function (based on SimHashing) which calculates a 128-bit hash from disassembled functions - and which preserves similarity (e.g. “distance” of two functions can be calculated by simply calculating the hamming distance between two hashes - which translates to two XOR and two POPCNT instructions on x64).

Huh! This obviously desirable property of a good hash function for this application is one of the classic undesirable properties of a good hash function for cryptography. I don't think that I was previously familiar with this sort of hash function, very cool.

Are space-filling curves related to these hash functions?
I’ve been a smoker and I can tell you, reducing the nicotine doesn’t work. And there is no such thing as “self discipline” that can help, unless you’re talking about quitting all smoking.

A tiny amount of nicotine is enough to maintain or reactivate your physical addiction. This is why the phrase “once a smoker always a smoker”, because for people like me it doesn’t matter that we haven’t smoked in 4 years, a single cigarette will bring back that addiction with a vengeance.

A minority of people supposedly have an easier time quitting. Hence the joke: Quitting is easy, I did it dozens of times already.

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances. AFAIK it ranks higher than drugs like cocaine.

The best strategy is quitting cold turkey, but the withdrawal symptoms can be severe. For people that failed that, there is some medication available that can interfere with the brain receptors to reduce the cravings.
There are valueless insights. Especially if you don't communicate them.

If you're on an imploding submarine on the bottom of the ocean and you get a flash of insight about how to do cold fusion... there's no value there. You're dead. It's just a shame you didn't figure out something relevant to your situation, rather than someone else's.
Have you heard that Idris 2 is implementated in Scheme, and runs faster than when it was on the GHC. Check out Edwin's tweet stream, he's loving Scheme and can't stop raving about it. The idea of Idris on Scheme is so sweet and
surreal it's got to be to the combo of the year.
The two highlights of your comment for me:

1. Morning time is easier to focus as one has more will power earlier in the day and reduced distraction from family/work.

2. Routine / consistency is key.

Thanks for an elaborate description of your experiments Tushar.
That would be a good thing?

In all seriousness, if companies actually had to pay for your data, suddenly their business models would flip and you would find that we would go from being the products to being the customers.
That's not the point. I just automatically assumed a subsequence problem will involve DP. I only know this because I studied for interviews in the past, not because I ever had to solve a subsequence problem at work, and I've done some _very_ advanced stuff.

I posit that ability to solve such problems is completely irrelevant to one's job performance, at Google or anywhere else. Google's own test of this hypothesis (hiring a control group of people irrespective of their interview scores) seems to bear it out.
I’m guessing it’s also related to the recent SQLite zero-day. SQLite is public-domain, and so it’s not unusual for projects to simply include the code directly in their source distributions, which will either build it in or will provide a `./configure` option to use an already-built form (this is used by distro packagers). When the “build it in” option is used, then it’s statically linked.
I was in jail for awhile but, regrettably, learned no new criminal techniques. In fact, most people seemed pretty reticent to talk about crimes or why they were in there. I did learn how to make a nutritious paste from commissary food, how to hide sugar packets in a mattress, and how to make a chess set out of toilet paper and toothpaste. I also found out that drugs are extremely cheap in jail--costing just one or two candy bars--since many people in jail have child support judgements against them and are effectively barred from using the commissary. Having access to the commissary can have a profound effect on your comfort in jail, so if you're a homeless person with some small passive income (and no child support!) it might be all right. I could see doing it through a harsh winter, but personally I'd probably choose the streets most of the time. The food you get might not be as regular, but it'll be more varied and probably more nutritious than what you'll find in a cell.
While I agree with the gist of your argument, corporate taxes (mostly) apply to profits, and therefore have no influence on profitable/not profitable.

(Payroll, VAT, and some other taxes do have the effect you describe. To excuse my nitpicking: that confusion over corporate taxation has a somewhat outsized effect on typical discussions of tax policy)
I do this too. But from other comments in this thread, I wonder if 5-star and 1-star comments are significantly more influential than 2- to 4-star comments?
As an anecdote, Dr. Krebs had no idea what the Krebs cycle was without looking it up, even though students are expected to memorize it.
Criminals are often not the brightest sparks.

My car was stolen last Friday night. It's on a car-share platform so the thief took the lockbox that's normally fitted to the window, bashed it open to get the key, and came back later for the vehicle. There is a very conspicuous warning on the lockbox that the car is fitted with two GPS units.

When I first reported the theft, police said all they can do is wait for the car to show up and provide a report for insurance purposes.

Then I checked the location via the car-share site. GPS updates were still working. When I called the police back to let them know I had a current location and could keep them updated in (almost) real time, it changed everything. Suddenly multiple cars were sent out while I kept reporting updates, and they managed to make an arrest within maybe 20 minutes.

It's great to see how a little technology can give victims a taste of vigilantism without endangerment.
You seem pretty defensive for someone who made rude and probably wrong implications about Elon in this same thread.
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Then you believe that the majority of all smokers are not mentally healthy?
It's legit. Also used for GSoC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
You are right, I was off.

On another note: I absolutely do not understand why we substitute the international mathematical symbol for cardinality (|A|) with variables we have to explain.

Computer science has a math background, so we all know set theory. At least I also learned using cardinality with Big O notation in university. But for some reason industry prefers to use variables here.
It is not just the dose per puff, but the total number of puffs per day.
While not the cheapest, the best wifi camera I've found so far was to build one from a RasPi Zero W, and install motionEyeOS on it.

From there, you could add simple motion tracking (OpenCV or something like that - there's enough in the distro to easily do blob tracking) and command a servo to track.

Total cost for the basic camera setup (not the tracking extra) was around $60.00 - and you don't have to pay for a cloud service or anything like that (I just have it email me the images), plus it's open source, so you can vet the codebase if you need or want.
The first thing that comes to mind is that the skate wasn't ready in time for the press demo. But... that doesn't explain why dropping it altogether.

Looking at the sizes in those pictures, it's possible that they couldn't fit a skate in. The skate would have to have electric motors squeezed in somewhere, and it looks like that 12' inner diameter has to squeeze in the car, the skate, the ventilation system, and the drainage system--and the gutter beneath already looks rather small for drainage. It also doesn't look like there's much room for a pedestrian emergency exit path; you'd have to walk on the wheel guideway path as is.
I am, but they don't seem to be exactly keen to tell us that. They seem more interested in bunkering down and writing pre-made apologies for each thing the media discovers.
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Dependence on nicotine is mostly psychological/social. Nicotine patches could prevent physical one but people still need to perform smoking “ritual” again and again.

What I want to say: we should not fight nicotine, we should fight smoking/vaping.
So when you look at the Jira story you know where it is.
When you deploy some code, how do you know what you actually deployed?
You could look at the competed stories, but it's not that solid as checking merges with that story number
Everyone who is older than a teenager.
Is this one of those paid ads? You will need a Decent 4K Screen for your Apple TV 4K to perform, your Apple TV 4K didn't magically made everything better, you are still limited by the quality of your screen.

I kind of wish Apple would work with Terrestrial TV ( I think they are called broadcast TV in US ) around the world and offers them a solution to Stream their TV Real time via IP on Apple TV without an STB. It might have been better if Apple could decode ATSC and DMB-T as well as other standard in Japan Korea or China I can't remember, but that doesn't seems possible at the moment within a single receiver.

Or an actual Apple TV Set ( Still don't understand about the argument on Margins, aren't they the same on Phones ) Or Apple TV with Router integrated. ( You will surely need decent QoS for IP Steaming ) Or License the whole Apple TV as a Single chip and let the TV manufacturer fight for it.

Because right now it still feels like a hobby.
The LD50 of nicotine is less than even cyanide. Is that not considered a deadly chemical either?
it’s sad he’s making but effort to slam amazon here. ok they didn’t do a perfect job but the package wasn’t lost yet.

any other vendor would have been much, much worse.

this isn’t an amazon problem at the root. it’s a customs problem. the ultimate fix will be that amazon won’t send such packages to such countries any more.
I’m guessing Albuquerque? It was in the news a few weeks ago.
In my own experience, nicotine was not very addictive. As a non-smoker, I started vaping 36mg/ml nicotine in unflavored propylene glycol. I used a high concentration to minimize exposure to any unknown non-nicotine risks. I vaped heavily for about 2 years before getting bored of it. I tapered the dose to zero over two weeks and experienced only mild withdrawal symptoms. It's been about four years since I quit and I've never felt the effects were sufficiently interesting or enjoyable to start again.
This is probably a good thing, given the recent trend in languages like Golang and Rust to statically link binaries by default.
How much more until we all start using end to end encryption?

I don’t mean server to client. I mean clients have the keys and only the clients.

Why are we relying on third parties to pretty please enforce access control?
Not only Large attachments but also provide access to documents in the cloud.
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What is to stop the concentration at 24mg? Also what stops someone puffing more using a vaping than what they can achieve with cigarettes.
I can only imagine that in my case (if I were dumb enough to use such a service):

After getting past my barking dogs (plus the small one that likes to bite people) - they'd get to the fridge, the dogs would shut up ("the person is going to the magic box where good tasting things come from - maybe they'll drop something!"), open up the fridge...

...then get to "play tetris" trying to fit the crap inside an already full unit.
GP is probably referring to Albuquerque.

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/art-buses-sent-back-to-...
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Are there really 50? Or is it 50 different brand names on the same two or three products?
And also I know a lot of people who vape nicotine-free dirt and we don't know what exactly those liquids contain.
Especially considering support for desktop PWAs.
If I'm a developer whose primary expertise is in Node with a smattering of Laravel and Rails, what should I be expecting if I decide to write an api with Spring Boot and Java? I've been curious for a while (Java performs very well on most benchmarks, and it looks great on a resume), and I've identified Spring Boot and Vertx as the two main web frameworks in Javaland.
Google wants the web to stay on par with native apps, for obvious reasons.

That’s why they invest heavily in Chrome (and FF, to some degree), and work on all sorts of APIs like notifications, WebAudio, etc.

The decision process is probably not far off from “could a sandboxed, locally installed, native app do this?”

Turning notifications off by default would probably err to far on the other side. At the very least, they would want some noticeable UI indicator that notifications are available. I could also see it becoming a feature only available to sites after x visits/y days.
What's odd about it? That people get hooked to nicotine through another delivery mechanism?
I do believe most smokers today are troubled by something, yes. In the past, it was culturally acceptable but not so much anymore (especially in Northern Europe, I can't really talk for the US). Most people who are bothered by something have a sort obsessive habit, e.g shaking one leg or a finger, touching his hair, smoking, chewing something, eating salty or sugary things. Just an observation.
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Social aspect of smoking could be additctive a lot. Many vaping liquids don't contain nicotine.
Does this mean modelling (catalog, stock photo) jobs are pretty much ready to fall to AI? I can't say that's one I would have expected. From there I guess full body and animation won't be too far off, so a lot of out of work actors/models.

Plus the obvious pornographic applications which I'm sure is what we're really waiting for.
I interview for my company, too, and don't ask these kinds of algorithm questions because the reality is these problems aren't typical of day-to-day work for the positions we are hiring for.

I'm interested to know what your interview process is. If you wouldn't mind sharing, how does the interview process work at your company?
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this looks like a long article. i stopped after the overview. why would you do all this rather than front your 3 “back office web services” with nginx+oauth2_proxy? does cognito offer some particular advantage beyond TFA stated purpose of oauth2 SSO?

oh, and just doing SSO is a very far cry from “beyondcorp”.
>Meanwhile, the complaint here is basically "they made our annoying and stupid notification not true".

What? I am so lost. The complaint is that video acceleration is being disabled, perhaps intentionally, resulting in loss of battery life. That is a bad thing for users, regardless of this whataboutism nonsense. If there was some reason the empty tag was added, Google PR is free to let us know. The fact that they did not is quite telling.

How can you support something blatantly bad as this unless you work for that company? Oh wait...

And Chrome is full of dirty tricks of it's own. For example they paid Gigabyte to add Google Chrome to show up as an 'update' to system software.

http://puu.sh/CjVYU/804038501f.jpg

So lets stop this, which company is worse thing and work towards fixing bugs and making users happier.
Nope. Not yet.
If A implies B, it does not follow that notA implies notB.
As it turns out many people don't have the willpower to kick the habit and die from smoking-related illnesses. How does does your suggestion to just quit help? Are you denying the existence of addiction to nicotine? If it were as simple as you describe, don't you think there wouldn't be a problem?
I do use at times, yes, but mostly not. Even when I'm not using it and logged in with my 'official' personal account, it shows these images to click on, at least three sets of multiple images.
Looks like Florida (Miami) from his follow-up replies. Honestly I would stay far away...
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Why do people who live in low population areas skew conservative? It turns out being an hour away from the nearest police patrol and being far from other people tends to encourage seeking personal freedom, less government (after all you never see them), gun ownership, etc. So if I say that we need more diversity of political beliefs in rural areas... but that seems impossible given that these are rational beliefs for the given circumstances. As the author alludes, likewise for academics.
I think, pretty obviously, the subtext here is that the LD50 of nicotine is a red herring, having little (at least epidemiologically) to do with the supposed hazards of vaping. Acetaminophen is also highly toxic --- unlike nicotine, the therapeutic dose is apparently right up on the toxic threshold. Tylenol kills at least 400 people every year, doubtless an order of magnitude (if not two) more than nicotine.
It's just weird when those so called personal opinions almost always support the company very strongly and are extremely negative about the competition since a very long time.
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I feel very strongly about never accepting the age old excuse "they were killed by their success, have pity on them." All that's really saying is that they didn't know how to manage the success, which is simply a leadership failure.

And no one could possibly argue that Python hasn't had irregularly poor leadership for a long while. I'd go so far as to say that its success is in spite of its leadership, culminating with Guido basically giving the middle finger and walking away this year. Can't say I blame him.

It is the nature of newer languages to learn from the mistakes of past ones. But the big irregularity which wasn't learned is that these languages I listed have very strong leadership. In the case of Go, I'd argue the strongest leadership of any language ever made, often to the disappointment of the community.
That's not an answer to the question I just asked. Can you hazard a guess? 2010-2017 deaths from acute nicotine toxicity. How many do you think there were?
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Hah, no. AV databases are just real dumb tries of whole-file MD5s, or a similar level of sophistication (i.e., not very). Usually combined with an unnecessarily privileged and unsandboxed parser for arbitrary weird file formats.
Can you explain how this change stops abusers while still allowing front-end routing? I’m a bit confused because they seem mutually exclusive to me, or should I say they come together or not at all.