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Fuck YouTube and the copyright trolls infesting the service.

I have repeatedly fought copyright claims on material that was obviously public domain. Being tired of reminding claimants and YouTube that NASA air to ground comms and presidential speeches are not subject to copyright, I deleted the content.

There were absurd claims, where my uploads were on YouTube for years before the claimants published their material, and the audio was from events recorded by the U.S. government a half century ago.

Yeah, fuck YouTube and the copyright trolls who infest it.
The Righteous Mind is brilliant. It gives an excellent framework by which to understand today's events better.
I agree, and I would go further: I think the idea that any human system can occur without fraud is ridiculous. People who claim to believe that systems should exist fraud-free often want to demolish those systems for other reasons.
Check out the coordinated campaign against Serpentza and Laowhy86 on youtube.
I presume this was heavily downvoted because of the Rand.

Yeah, that's the norm here, sadly. You can post a list of 20 books and if one of them is by Rand, your post will be down-voted into oblivion. It's almost like some people have this Pavlovian reaction when they see Rand's name.

I mean, I get that not everyone appreciates her works, and that's fine and totally understandable. "Different strokes" and all that. But the zeal with which her haters go on the attack is a bit strange.

2. Rand makes some points that some people need to learn, even if I don't buy her whole worldview.

Exactly. This is the same reason that I have copies of Mein Kampf, The Communist Manifesto and Mao's Little Red Book on my shelf waiting to be read. I don't have to agree with a work to find benefit in reading it. Quite the opposite... I believe that if I'm going to argue against something, I should probably have a reasonable understanding of it. And I prefer to go to primary sources than rely on secondhand commentary.
My younger son (high school freshman) would agree. He informed me that it is very addictive. Some kids try it out of curiosity and then become very addicted. It is easy to hide at school. He calls their bathroom the vape lounge. Kids can vape at home without their parents becoming aware if they have enough spending allowance. I thought E-cig was going to help people addicted to cigarettes quit smoking. I didn't imagine it may become a new plague itself.
I think you’re talking about code complexity. He’s seems be talking about problem complexity, which just is.
Read my edit. I took up the habit to manage stress, and my blood pressure has come down to a healthy 115/70 from 140/100.
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You can make that argument without all the histrionics and performativity. Please give it a try.
A significant portion of the grumbling around this is that YouTube has put their head in the sand and refused to admit that their service has issues, and steadfastly continues to use automated systems when what they really need is backup from a subjective human.
To the extent analytics are used, I think search analytics are probably influential (certainly, the press releases pornhub regularly puts out about what people are searching for advertises that they have this data available, so I'd be very surprised if it wasn't for sale and used by content creators/distributors). And is suspect that search data provides a lot more information about why people watch particular videos than just view data and assumptions.
You're on the right track with that, although I'd say it's centered around order, rather than entropy.

It's hard to do it justice here, but the book builds off of existing information theory to offer an explanation of why there are pockets of order in the universe (like our solar system) instead of uniform chaos.

From there it explains how natural systems can increase in complexity over time, and then moves eventually into human systems like cities and economies.

He basically uses physics and thermodynamics to explain economics, which I found fascinating.

This book made me realize just how valuable dense cities are for economic progress and innovation (and why that is - one reason being that it's relatively difficult to transfer knowledge and know-how from one human to another). It also provides an interesting sort of grand purpose for humanity - to be caretakers of this little region of ordered information we find ourselves in.
Cool toy! A lot of work probably went into this and the presentation is pretty stellar. I'm not sure if I'd use it over VSCode, but I bookmarked it!

A tangential complaint: I really wish GraphQL had annotations for derived types. I think it's so dumb how you will often have (to use one of the site's examples) a Book type, but then also need a CreateBookInput input type and a UpdateBookInput input type. These latter two will often be strict subsets of Book. It's very error prone, especially when you start changing root types, but forget about these derived input/update types.
I read it, and was disappointed. The book could only get so close to Jesus as to speculate what a person living during that time period might have been like, and what some of the prevailing social issues were.
Yes, but he's not a good journalist, he's a polemicist. He omits information that's important for his audience to know in order to understand the issue. Chomsky does the same thing. I broadly agree with his conclusions in this example but I trust Taibbi about as much as any other salesman, ie not at all.
My impression from that interview is that the fact checkers are not doing things like calling movies theaters, mayors, or owners of restaurants and verifying the statements they allegedly made in their interviews with the reporter are true. Instead they are cross referencing claims made by their reporters, things like whether or not a politician has been quoted in a reputable newspaper as saying something, or how many jobs were created in a time period, with their database of open source intelligence. Is it expected that a fact checker contact everyone a journalist interviewed and go over each sentence and claim line by line and verify that it is true?
This isn't zero sum. Some land is not suitable for farming (too dry or too hilly), but is useful for grazing. Land that's suitable for both often does better when rotated between crops and livestock. And grassland may be better than farmland at carbon sequestration.

It's probably a good idea to move away from feeding corn to livestock, though.
Is that the guy that misrepresents his credentials?
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Interesting to see this on HN. I applied for a job at propublica where the application asked to replicate the research for a story from their local reporting network. I picked this article, and went as far as I could on the FOIA side of research.

For anyone curious, here are my research notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iu_evesAD8hiSjAsZ5l7h6zr...
“A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” by Jeremy Kun. It’s funny, approachable, and manages to get deep into math topics important to programmers. It goes into the history and culture of math, helping you understand why math is the way it is. Couldn’t be happier with it!
Heavy page weights really should be called out in the submission title, IMHO. Not all of us are on unlimited data plans.
The Beastie Boys book. It’s like a time machine. I read like 800 pages in a day, couldn’t put it down.
I don't understand why people are anywhere near as worried about vaping as they are about cigarettes.

Yeah, it's addictive because of nicotine. But there's no evidence that nicotine is harmful, in fact it may be neuroprotective, and vaping simply does not produce the type and quantity of carcinogens that cigarette smoking does.

I think this amounts to hysteria because people associate nicotine with cancer. Not sure why the addiction is such a big deal.
Same story. I quit when it became Facebook style with zero useful answers.
Three entertaining reads that also turned out to hide interesting little studies in team management:

- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (the breakout memoir that made his career)

- Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam (about the 79-80 Portland Trailblazers)

- The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith (about the Bulls first NBA championship with Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson)

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidenti...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75406.The_Breaks_of_the_...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246468.The_Jordan_Rules
'I was obviously joking' is the go-to defense of people who are acutely embarrassed. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen that excuse trotted out. As I always say when someone tries this in person 'if only one of us is laughing it wasn't a joke.'
The rich usually have some other deductions exceeding the standard deduction, so it doesn’t help them at all.
> Notice how changed "democracy" to "democratic process"

Fine: It is important to realize that democracy and following the will of people can result in bad and unjust outcomes.

There, doesn't make a difference.

> and how saying "democracy can result in bad and unjust outcomes" would have raised the question, as opposed to what, exactly [...]

I haven't got a slightest idea what you're saying. You don't have to sell me on democracy, I'm already sold. You also don't have to sell me on caring about people elsewhere, I'm sold there too.

But you shouldn't define democracy to simply exclude outcomes you deem unethical as that is simply useless for discussion.
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> He's suggesting that, but it is extremely unlikely that he didn't know.
Oh? Is there any evidence to back up that claim?

> Sounds like the journalists are doing their job.
Sounds like the death of investigative journalism.
This is a BS statistic, describing people who pay thousands via payroll tax as paying nothing.
I've taken to stopping at the Fergus Falls Walmart on my way through. I guess I got a bit old and need that stop after Fargo for gas and food. Its basically half-way between Fargo and Alexandria which means its going to have lower traffic because both of them are bigger. Plus, along that route Fargo & St. Cloud have cheaper gas prices. It is a good stop point if you are having car trouble or the weather gets a bit too much to handle.

1) Fargo, ND often has the cheapest gas in the area because it has 3 pipelines going through the town.
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Yes but not always a good journalistic one. I especially don't like it when conclusions are offered as premises, and it's not because I'm any fan of Goldman Sachs - quite the opposite.
I don't think it's an unfair complaint. Developers interface with the language using compilers and IDEs, and until recently (with libclang getting more popular) that interface has been terrible. In a lot of cases it's still terrible. It's a real inconvenience, and there's no benefit coming with the cost.

> Boost is extremely high quality in terms of its documentation, algorithms, and readability of the code - which is its core purpose.

I've used Boost for over a decade now, and IMO "extremely high quality" is a stretch. Some modules are better than others, but there's no getting around the fact that many of them are only necessary because the C++ standard library is so bad.
> Even the collapse of this reality, while grand is minor in the face of what I believe comes after.

What kind of religion are you on, and can I have some?
Not surprising. I grew up in New Mexico and recently lived for a year in Los Alamos, with a girlfriend working as a researcher. I was looking for a space for a workshop and almost rented out a garage across from a suspicious empty field… It turned out to be the site of an original Manhattan Project landfill. This piqued my interest, and I looked into the environmental history of Los Alamos. As recounted in the article, the history and current situation are terrifying and incredibly irresponsible. I’m not sure how anyone could ever think that dumping water containing plutonium straight into the ground was not going to be a problem. The thing is, this sort of wanton pollution is hardly unique to Los Alamos. The federal government, military and contractors like the University of California did this all over the country, especially in the west, even very near populated areas.
Polluting the surrounding areas is a slightly different topic then poisoning workers, but the attitudes and shoddy practices responsible are the same.
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Quote "I knew that the Juul fad had practically taken over American high schools recently...". After looking at pictures of their products I think I understand why [1]. I have the impression that some of these products are tailored to sell to teenagers. Last time I meet my younger brother, he couldn't go for more than a few hours without becoming agitated or vaping. Way to go and make that money

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUUL#/media/File:Juul_with_pod...
> And does the compiler no longer complain about code that really should work just fine?

In the general case that's theoretically impossible, and also not really a good measure anyway.
But if the benefit of it is enjoyed only by a few generations out of tens-thousands, then no. It'd be a failure.

If the oil lobby hadn't suppressed research and political will from doing something about climate change back in the 70s, we could be saying something different.
Does the best available evidence support your claim?

I believe that vaping is likely to be healthier than smoking. I would need to see high quality evidence to believe that it’s harmless. If you can provide it in the form of published articles, I will read it and offer commentary.

Nicotine products have killed millions of people prematurely. These companies have stoked a resurgence in nicotine use among young people. This is concerning.
If you've ever wondered what gaslighting is, this comment serves as a great example.
Not an expert, but there's plenty of research that shows that vaping is indeed less harmful than traditional smoking.

E-cigarettes and vaping are endorsed and used as part of smoking cessation therapies.

However, regarding vaping itself, is still too early to tell if it is safe.
Safer than cigarettes? Yes. Chemical and toxicological studies show that vaping/e-cigs are far less harmful than traditional tobacco. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110871/

Not harmful at all? Unlikely. It's hard to determine at this point the level of harm, but it's fair to say that any form of chemical inhalation is bad for you (including the simple act of breathing in a city or area with high air pollution).
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I guess I have a hard time buying that when the article admits to strong bias like the following:

Vaping in general, and Juul in particular, have wiped out years of hard work to get teens off of cigarettes
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What nicotine products besides tobacco kill people? Patches? Gum?

Sure the level of use is a bit concerning, but I don’t think it’s going to be the health epidemic that the media is making it out to be.
Richard Carrier has made a decent case against a historical Jesus, but I'm not a scholar. On the other side, Bart D. Ehrman is an atheist who backs a historical Jesus. If he was based on a real person, The Jesus we know is like a Hollywood biography where the story was 'based on actual events' but was exaggerated beyond recognition for rhetorical impact. It's allegorical fiction.
One thing I've found even better than code review is pair programming. At the recommendation of the tech lead we all did it for the four years at my last job, and it was a fantastic way to spread knowledge around. For thorny prpblems we'd even "mob" on them, four or five of us sitting in front of one big monitor, rotating who used the keyboard and mouse, discussing and giving high-level instructions to the driver. We collectively figured we produced features about as fast as with individuals programming (because of the intensity and avoiding many dead ends) but that the quality was far superior. Reviewing the process honestly (without getting personal) is key, though, to address inefficiencies and interpersonal issues.
Normal cigarettes are orders of magnitude more harmful than vaping. Cigarettes are one of the most harmful nicotine delivery methods. Nicotine use itself has some negative effects such as cardiovascular problems.

Overall, while the uptick in vaping is concerning, it's worthwhile to point out that the cigarette use has dropped from 30% in 2000 to under 10% today. Vaping usage today is under cigarette usage in 2000. Who knows what those numbers would be without E-cigarettes, but if the drop in cigarette usage is due to vaping then I'd still consider it a win.
I was a nic addict for several years. Most of the time it was spliffs (weed mixed with nicotine) but my consumption rate was probably the equivalent of 4-5 cigs a day (8 king size spliffs per day). I also smoked here and there but I didn’t like the taste or throat hit as much.

After having a prolonged cough, I switched to juuling. I loved it - tasted great, nice buzz, amazing (AMAZING) throat hit. I stopped smoking spliffs (positive was I was no longer high 24-7), my lungs felt better, I overall felt better.

However, the issue with these things is it is so available. You can take tiny rips anywhere. And there is no quantized amount. You just take a few puffs but you have no idea how much that is, unlike a discrete cig. So my 4-5 cig a day habit turned into the equivalent of a pack a day habit. I found myself ‘going to the bathroom’ all the time at work to sneak a quick hit. I think my base level anxiety went up.

So I quit the juul (quitting wasn’t as hard as I thought despite using a pod a day for 6 months, the anxiety of what would happen when I quit was really the big thing. In terms of withdrawals all I had was a desire to consume nic on my mind all the time for a few days).

Really what I want to say is that the juul is a better cig. You can use it anywhere. You feel much less terrible and sickly (when your smoking you couch all the time). It tastes much better. However all of this makes it much more addicting than the traditional cigarette

The science is out on how bad for you vaping is. Many point to the fact that nicotine by itself is really only bad for your heart - the extra stuff is more from smoke / chemicals in cigarettes. However nicotine addiction kinda sucks
I've been a user for many years - would love to know how large this awesome and vibrant community is. Is there a way we can estimate it via the API etc?
Citation? I'm not aware of any research quantifying that in the medium-to-long term.
The litter is arguably worse. Instead of biodegradable cotton, these plastic things are all over the place. It took me about a year before I even realized what they were. Plus, now these damn, dirty apes will live longer and therefore litter even more!
The problem with the severe under reporting of the death toll is, in the current news cycles it'll be adjusted but people will have moved on by then.

We know it's more than 20. But the news is incapable of reporting that.

We need a Nate Silver or something working on the estimates.
Does your argument hinge upon an absence of evidence, or do you have evidence to support your position?
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This is pretty cool. Amazing how many creative ideas just pop in my head!
It's been a long time since I've read it, but... not even Carmack?
I'm not familiar with nicotine vaping. How is juul different from "traditional vape"? Not trying to degrade your post by use of quote marks, I'm just not sure what is meant by that term. Did people use to vape tobacco by by grinding leaves and using an oven vape - like vaping cannabis in, e.g. a PAX 3?
In general, Rust will probably never be the sort of Swiss Army chainsaw that C++ is, and that is by design. For instance, there will most likely never be custom move semantics; the fact that Rust moves are always simple bitwise copies is a feature. But we're probably talking about different types of expressiveness—what I had in mind was modern type system features such as algebraic data types and pattern matching, monadic/combinator-based vocabulary types such as Option, Result, and Iterator, trait-based polymorphism and so on. C++ is slowly getting many of these as well, but often the corresponding features feel clunky and "design-by-committee"-ish.
> But there's no evidence that nicotine is harmful

LD50 of nicotine in humans is 6.5–13 mg/kg orally.
How is that bias? The data clearly backs up that teen rate of nicotine product use (for want of a better description) was on a dramatic decline until the advent of Juul.
Have to agree. This is pretty half-assed and seems useful for maybe just a few edge case apps. In all other cases, it will really hurt the Mac user experience.
Okay, how about in the practical cases that actually come up and make you have to work around the compiler?
"insufficient data" isn't the same as "totally harmless"

Until now, nicotine was used exclusively by smokers and ex-smokers. Reducing smoking was the goal, and anything less harmful than smoking was considered a win.
What did you use to create the interface?

The graphql editor seems familiar.
I don’t know if this is a good argument. The Sumerians, Etruscans, Olmecs, etc. had a rich history that the world is probably the poorer for losing, but how often do any of us fret about that?
Where is the bias? That's just stating the facts .
Most of these performers don't care about getting paid.

Amateur porn is absolutely not the default, as even a cursory glance at porn sites reveals. Gonzo and amateur porn are categories but most porn is made to make a buck. Performers like getting paid because they like to eat and not be homeless, and suggesting that most of them don't want to be paid is simply not true. That's like saying most homeless people choose to be on the street - it's an excuse to ignore their problems, though I appreciate you may not have meant it that way.

Btw I base my views on over a decade in the indie film (not porn) industry, and from having a lot of friends and acquaintances who are sex workers, and who are already having a tough time dealing with FOSTA/SESTA.
I don't know at this point we can call it a fad. Fad is usually by definition short-lived. It looks like this is gonna stay.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fad
What's the difference between vape and juul? I thought they are the same thing - just a brand?
This paper isn’t nearly as certain as you are. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
It doesn't take everything over. You can use repository rules to build dependencies in whatever way you want.

Also, it's not corporate and not bloated. If you understand the system well enough, you can create support for a language yourself from scratch without spending huge amount of time on it.
But is nicotine the reason cigarettes are so bad for human health?
I haven't really followed Jupyter's development lately, so maybe this is already happening, but I think what you really need is some concept of a workspace, rather than a single file.

The problem with notebooks is that they get unwieldy, and you want to keep a bunch of code around that's only useful in certain cases, or just starts doing "too much".

Sure, you can factor this code out into a library/function, but there's nothing that makes that easy, and once you've made it into a library, there's nothing that helps you easily make changes to that library in a different notebook.
> But more dangerous than not inhaling anything.

but if you're going to inhale anything, is it better that it is juul rather than tobacco?