skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of several gas stations, liquor stores and convenience stores that sell neither nicotine gum, patches nor lozenges. They all sell cigarettes, though.
Agent Carl Force went to jail...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/corrupt-silk-roa...
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It's actually due to the undecidability results that there can't be a general algorithm to predict the result of any algorithm. If the problem were merely NP-complete, it would mean that, as far as we know, it would take a very long time to do it, but it would still possible.
Anectdotal: daily use of 3 mg every night for three years

Still works wonders
Ask HN: Are there any technical marketing firms?
Hello, I often find myself hard to express or present my tech ideas to the internet. I know there are plenty of good marketing people there but I highly doubt if they know how to get the 'technical' product to the right audience as that needs understanding of the product's current culture. Is that problem stated before? I've did some search and come up with 'technical marketing engineer' perhaps that's the closest. If you have any hints on this, please leave a comment! Thank you.
Having used React hooks for the past couple of months, I think I've come to the conclusion that I'm not going to recommend any body to switch away from class components.

I understand that hooks solve the problem of being able to compose side-effects and lifecycle in your components, but honestly, in the last three years of using React, I don't think I've ever actually had a scenario where hooks would have been a great solution for me. I'm not sure if this means I've been designing my React components very well, or very badly or what.

While hooks look like they might be good at some things (ex: useState is awesome), I think they come with too many subtle gotchas (the amount of literature on handling these gotchas, that's been written in the few months of hooks being in beta is mind-blowing) that I'd much rather just use class components.
2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
I used to suffer from something similar, nothing and I mean nothing has helped me like a regular sleep schedule.

Curious if you've tried that?
> it's a lot of work

It should be a lot of work. There should be a penalty for this. State makes your code harder to reason about and should be avoided (i.e. contained) as much as possible.

> But I often need small bits of state all over the place

If you need small bits of state all over the place you may need to rethink things or use a state management system.

The spirit of React hooks might be to make things easier for certain edge cases but instead they will be abused by those who don't understand them to make their code harder to understand. Trust me, I've already started running into this with those who decided to cargo cult React hooks.
same here, very disappointing
Am I the only one with cognitive dissonence about the "South Alligator River" being described as "crocodile-infested", which is in Australia (a country with absolutely no alligators).

(edit typo)
I once asked about melatonin in a health food shop and was told it’s illegal in the UK!

The seems odd in a country where (for example) you can buy codeine pills over-the-counter, so now I’m curious about why it was banned, considering it’s reported to have few side effects?
Why I love B2B over B2C
It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences but from what I’ve seen I think it depends more on the management / CEO than the company size. Some of the smaller companies I’ve worked for have been worse than any of the larger companies and that was entirely down to the fact that the CEO saw the sales team as the money bringers because they scored the lucrative deals, where as the engineering team were seen as replaceable work horses.

But as I said, the best thing you can do in those sort of places is take the money and move on because you aren’t going to change the CEO’s attitude.
It happens, shit breaks all the time, right?

When people are relying on software for their safety, no, it doesn't. Bugs in critical systems for things like planes and cars are rare because going faster kills people. Using 1% of your users as tests is fine if you're making a website but much less fine if your new code means they might die.
I've had way more random problems from not binding class members correctly than I have with useEffect. Hooks have allowed me to rip out a bunch of JS class boilerplate and my code is cleaner and easier to read as a result.
> You say "awful AI", but it's clearly a AAA selling game, where 90%+ of players play on the single player setting.

Yes, 90%+ of players play on the single player setting - despite an awful AI. And I say that as one of that 90%. It is certainly not the AI that made me buy and play Civ. I don't expect nor want AI to play perfectly, but I do want AI to play good enough to not make ridiculously dumb decisions.

For example, notice how often AI leaves embarked units unprotected, so they can be easily destroyed. Or how often despite having long range artillery, it will enter town's firing range (even with that artillery!). Or how with its own towns it prefers so much to fire at even slightly damaged units, before attacking siege weapons (which deal much greater damage to towns).
Plastic recycling has always been a massive con that just makes people feel better. If you have food wrapped in plastic that is new material that will never be recycled. Even if it was melted down and turned into something else, that's not recycling, it's just slowing the spiral down to the landfill.

Some materials can truly be recycled, like steel and glass.
It's not reasonable once you consider the bandwidth of satellites.
Please add info about

1) How many people can you reach and get unbiased opinion? (This also depends on the product segment, still some info about numbers is helpful)

2) Cost of running a survey.
I'm only damning MrTonyD's ignorance of politics, you're preaching to the choir.
I agree. The main objective of capitalism is making people consuming more and more and never only as much as one needs. To change that mindset we need to get rid of capitalism in the first place.

This is also thesis of Naomi Klein book

http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2018/08/capitalism-killed...
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Because a statement like "e-cigs are about 95% safer than tobacco" seems meaningless to me without any scale to reference it to, I dug out the paper that they based their estimate on [1] (which I got from [2]).

I'm just going to say that this looks like the least rigorous assessment that I've ever seen. As far as I can tell, they went to a conference and over a 2 day period collectively came up with a list of "evaluation criteria" which is not at all limited to health. It includes (among other things) crime, environmental damage, family adversities, economic cost, community,etc, etc).

Then they scored each product against each criteria on a 100 point scale. This is not an evidenced based approach. It was a bunch of people sitting in a room arguing with each other how they think it should be scored.

Then they weighted the results. Finally they gave each a final score of "harm" base on a 100 point scale. Cigarettes ranked at 100. Pipe smoking ranked at 21 (nearly 5x "safer" than cigarettes!) ENDS ranked about 4 (based on what I can guess from the graph). There's your "at least 95% 'safer'" tag line.

Oh and the committee included a consultant working with companies on tobacco dependence, another consultant working with smoking cessation products, and another consultant working for an e-sig distributor. Several of the committee received grants from the nicotine industry.

[1] - https://www.karger.com/article/FullText/360220
[2] - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Did they speculate about how it was done before fiber optics?
Of those cities I've only spent time in the Bay Area and NYC, but NYC feels much more diverse than the Bay Area. The Bay Area has people of every race and ethnicity, but it feels very segregated both geographically and economically. People don't interact across ethnic lines as much (with a few prominent exceptions). In NYC, it doesn't feel like race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status are so tightly correlated.
Maybe it's coincidence but IIRC there's some scientific literature that suggests simply imagining success can trigger similar reward pathways as actually achieving success.

This in turn may sap motivation. (Not sure if this consequence is part of the science.) The remedy according to some sources is to avoid imagining success or even the end state of your project. To maintain perseverance, try to stay focused on the most immediate problems and potential future hurdles.
> in Clojure, using Vim

Ouch, shoudn't it be Emacs? /s
IIRC, FAA didn’t ground 787 until both Japanese airlines had grounded the 787. With the number of fatalities and accidents new 737 had, it should be grounded by all airlines.
Alos half baked stuff like taking the highest estimate of Libya's sovereign wealth fund as Gaddafi's personal fortune.
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You're being facetious and you know it. It wasn't paper ballots that enabled the communists to hold on to power, it's that they didn't have any opposition, and their elections wouldn't be recognized as fair and valid by any modern standard.
This Wikipedia article is pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
I haven't made any debian packages, I heard it's a lot of work, but these looks good, not bad:

* Granting personal freedom to individual maintainers

* All maintainers need to read up on what the new thing is, how it might break, whether/how it affects them, manually run some tests, and finally decide to opt in.
To be fair the first book ever printed was a self help book.
How did you get the remote control to work? Looks like you started with an Xbox controller?
It's a euphemism for self-gratification and self-indulgence.
Wonderful demonstration. I can't help but wonder--as someone who has flirted with R but certainly not committed--how much time and practice it takes to acquire decent fluency with these half-magical incantations to become productive.
Makes me think that there is potential of repurposing military smokescreen technology for emergency gear.
According to Wikipedia, "They were explored by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King in 1820, who named them in the mistaken belief that the crocodiles in the estuaries were alligators."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Rivers
A semantic tool for our chat logs
It's like someone that's never painted in their life giving estimates on how long it'll take to paint the interior of a new house based on the total width of all brushes that'll be used and the total area to be brushed. Even if it's small and you'll have a lot of brushes, there could be lots of detail work because of windows/doors/etc.

Who would have a better idea? Probably someone who knows how to paint.
What is the approximate price range to get everything needed?
The right thing to do is to either bring down the blog post, replacing it with references to the used articles, or quickly transform (pun intended) the paragraphs and graphics into your own. As it stands, it’s plagiarism.
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/120514-ethiopian-7...
Contradiction in Divide by Zero
Broken email clients and careless people break those all the time though...
> I mean- what is the representation you speak of in the previous comment. What data structure holds the model's understanding of M:tG colour? The source code is available online.

The network's hidden layers. I can elaborate, but looking at your profile, you've implemented an LSTM before, so I shouldn't need to delve deeply into how that works. I'm honestly not sure where your confusion or aversion to the idea that much models can learn to encode semantically meaningful concepts is.

The concept of "color" is never explicitly encoded anywhere by a human. It infers clusterings based on the correlations between which cards are chosen. Unsurprisingly, given reasonable training data, those clusters form along useful boundaries in the game world, one of which is color. If you similarly passed a pack containing every card into the model, you'd likely get out what the model's opinion on the best limited card is. No one ever told it that, but based on the training data, the model "figures it out".

My comments on understanding can be summarized as such: either

1. You're of the opinion that nothing that isn't "strong AI" can have understanding, because understanding is some concept unique to conscious entities (or some reasonably similar opinion). This is an almost completely semantic argument, and isn't particularly interesting. Its an argument about definitions that avoids any actual useful academic questions.

2. You think that non-conscious entities can "understand" concepts, but deny that implicit understandings based on learned clusterings is "understanding". This is marginally more interesting, but wrong: if an implicit understanding can pass a "turing test" whereby I mean that the statistical/learned model can perform as well as whatever you're comparing against, whether it is a human or an expert system, at some task, the two things have the same understanding when confined to that domain.

In other words, sure saying a model doesn't "understand language" might be reasonable because language is multifaceted. But suggesting a model that outperform humans on the synonym portion of the LSAT doesn't understand synonyms is silly. Of course it does. Better than humans. Sure it can't express its understanding of synonyms as music or dance, but that's not because it lacks understanding of synonyms, that's because it lacks other basic faculties that we take for granted.

The question of whether or not you or I can introspect the model to see how its understanding is structured doesn't matter. I can't look inside your head to see how your understanding of language is structure. There's no ArrayList<WordDefinition> I can see in your mind. But I think anyone would agree that you and I both "understand" synonyms despite that lack of transparency. Why would you expect anything different from a statistical model?
Melatonin is now available from Chemists. You need to do a short online consultation but other than that it’s straight forward to buy
I'm curious as to what the author would think of this in contrast to Debian:

https://illumos.org/books/dev/
Kage – Graphical User Interface for Metasploit Meterpreter and Session Handler
While it is true that you should not overuse state, it is almost impossible in real-world applications not to have it. I.e. a single UI toggle that shows/hides some content requires a field on the components state. Putting this in the props or even a state management container like redux would be overkill.
Are you against using Babel and the class properties proposal? Binding members shouldn't have been a problem in your codebase in recent years.
Great post
A small remark regarding point (2) of the commercial justifications; it's often conflated that RL "requires" Deep Learning (DL), or that RL is Deep RL, which is clearly a false assertion - one often made by groups often seen as "leading" the field - e.g. OpenAI. It should not be necessary for the future of RL to have such a dependence on DL and perhaps the assumption of DL is leading a large section of research into a local optima and somewhat harmful to research and newcomers to the field of RL in general

Appreciate your posts and looking forward to more!
A guy is willing to buy some shares at 101 on exchange A. Another guy is willing to sell the same shares at exchange B for 99. Neither of them has the budget to connect to both exchanges.

HFT has connections to both and can see the cross. Everyone is better off.

This might be different in the US due to NMS, but HFT strategies are all pretty similar: they can provide liquidity better if they are fast, and other people can take advantage of that.
My initial thought would be probably not, because anticholinergic drugs work by blocking cholinergic receptors. No matter how much choline you eat, a blocked receptor is still blocked, until the drug lets go and gets broken down. That said, eating a few extra eggs in the morning probably wouldn't hurt. (Of course, this is not medical advice, because I'm not a doctor or a biological scientist of any sort.)
> better to put your mathematics in the comments, than the reverse

I respectfully, and strongly, disagree. Try to implement the conjugate gradient algorithm (or a variation of it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method Using your style, you will obtain an unreadable mess. Better make your code isomorphic to your math, and then explain the meaning of everything in the comments.

> force = (g_constant * mass[0] * mass[1])/(radius 2)
> Communicates far more than the algebraic alternative.

I don't see how this is clearer than something like this

// Newton's law of gravitation
//
// m : mass of first body
// M : mass of second body
// G : universal gravitational constant
// r : distance between the two bodies
// F : force between the two bodies
F = G * m * M / (r^2)
Health Benefits of Bananas
I had just made a post about keynav and here I see you ;)
Reading between the lines I see "wouldn't it be nice if Debian's repository was like Google's repository"
I want one for my HTPC, if it turns out to be a good one. :-)

I have two mice on my workstation. At least in Windows it just accumulates the movement. E.g. move left left, right right about the same amount and you'll have the cursor just moving around a little bit but staying mostly in place.
Update on Tesla Stores and Pricing
To play devil's advocate, this has always been the case with React. Newbies always mutate props or use setState incorrectly or in the wrong lifecycle methods. We've relied on linting to solve this for a long time now.
Three analytical traps in accident investigation
I have built real world applications with React (consumer, insurance, B2B, I work at Facebook using React currently). I've handled some pretty crazy edge cases. I've never felt I needed something like hooks. The example you gave me sounds just fine for a "smart/dumb" component pattern[0]. If you need something between props and redux, there's plenty of existing options that work fine. React context and the render props pattern come to mind.

0. https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c... (The author of this blog post pushes hooks now yet the pattern works well in most cases)
Unlike data cables which cary information with a voltage, fiber optic cables carry information through light impulses. An advantage being that light is not susceptible to electromagnetic interference or radio frequencies. Having multiple fiber optic cables next to each other doesn't cause any issues.

The electromagnetic interference between cables is the reason why you shouldn't wire a house with data cables and power cables next to each other.
Interestingly I was just thinking about this the other day, and hoping that someone here would have the answer. I'm really curious what is the total bandwidth per second across different continently globally without accounting for intra-continent bandwidth?
You can subscribe to individual bugs in Debbugs, you can't subscribe to threads. Threads also don't have short ID (bug 123456) and don't have metadata like whether the bug is closed.
A mono repo is not needed. Some teams are able to push changes to all the packages of the team without it and without much effort (for example, the Debian Python Modules Team does that quite often). It's more a social problem: all packages should be maintained in the same way and people should be allowed to do global changes. This is true for some teams, not for some others.
the riches of mansa musa are currenly in the hands of the 13 family bloodlines that include the rotschild,rockefllers etc they used someone similar to indiana jones(sic) and accomplices for recovering the treasures during the RAIDS OF TIMBUKTU....glad we europeans have been able to survive of this stolen stuff for so long...praise ze ancestors!
I use Typescript. I'm not interested in adding another processing/parsing tool to the stack I already have. Hooks are a much more elegant solution to state management than classes, IMO, but it will probably take some time for best practices to emerge, just as they did for classes.
Ethiopian Airlines and China ground all their 737 Max 8s so they can be checked
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It's not clear what the product does. You'll probably have to define a use case and market that. Amazon started with selling books before selling everything. Facebook started with connecting college students, and then games, before connecting everyone.

You can keep it general purpose like those companies did, but make it really clear what it does.

One example is what https://www.recommend.my/ does. They cover all kinds of services, including cakes and web design. But the website focuses heavily on home improvement because it had the lowest bounce rate and best margins.
Crafting a Resilient Culture: How to Survive an Accidental Mid-Day Prod Incident
Tesla to raise vehicle prices, keep more stores open
I wouldn't call the campaign demonizing, it's not like cigarettes are just a slightly bad for your health... There's way enough studies to back campaigns against it. I wouldn't call this moralistic...

I have the feeling that with vaping there's a "safe until proven unsafe" factor... The fact that it is used as a way to get people away from cigarettes tends to make think that it can just be better, which might be true, but at the same time there's absolutly no knowledge about long term effects.

Personally I think it would make sense to apply tobacco regulations to vaping. For safety purpose as well as respect for non smoker/vapers.

I know for a fact from people who worked for BAT that it is now a big part of their strategy.

When I see news like this, i can't help but make a parallel with tobacco lobbying:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45212444