skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stalin and Trump aren't known for their good judgement and rationality.

Just because they're capable of physically staying awake without much sleep, doesn't make them so superhuman as to remain unaffected by doing so.
I wonder if a plastic credit system ala carbon credit system could work. This could prop up the recycling market.
This is incorrect. E cigarettes are still in a very early stage of research. My partner works at one of the leading institutes in tobacco research and they are literally just kicking off most of their research on e-cigs. Most of the researchers (including one of the world experts on tobacco research) has a gut feeling that the health effects will be in the same magnitude as cigarettes. Early research confirms this, but again it's still a gut opinion. Literally the first major study on e-cigs affect on heart disease was released last year (and it does not look good): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190307103111.h...

I don't believe any e-cigarette research institute would agree with either of the claims that:
1) vaping is well studied. It is about 10-20 years from being well studied as most of the major research institutes are just starting (or are in grant application stage).
2) vaping is less harmful than the health effects of a high sugar diet (not to discount that a high sugar is very bad)
Todo lists are useful to keep track of all the tasks in one place and not to hold them in your head.

I heard of businessmen who as a rule of thumb delegate or delete tasks after not being able to start within 3 days.

So it is matter of your system how you use your todo list
I'm glad that not every programmer follows your example and spews out a new piece of half-baked, buggy, bloated software every fortnight. I don't know why you feel superior about the fact that you don't like executing projects to a high standard.
Or, evolutionary advantage (primarily in the meme sense, but also genetically, for improving physiological and neurological support for language).

In what contexts does abstract language confer a survival or reproductive advantage, beyond simple communication, which is a commonplace, e.g. predator warning, food location, mate-seeking.
Well, if you call an app "tiny" old internet types are going to assume you mean "lightweight" and "efficient"
I saw that too and wondered the same thing. Still a real company?
When reading the language section [0] I was surprised to see that COBOL had no heap allocation until 2002. Searching around, the only comments I could find amounted to "We just didn't need it.". Can anyone fill me in?

[0]: https://www.memorymanagement.org/mmref/lang.html
Ya should nae huv dun it wit Electron mate.
E-cigs are not safe, and we know this. They are just more safe than straight cigarettes (not exactly a high bar).

The primary issue is that Big Tobacco is marketing to children, again, with the goal to get children who currently wouldn't use cigarettes. That needs to get stomped on.
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Is there a reliable way to tell which airplane type before booking?
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How do you know that? Are you a person at FAA responsible for these decisions and protocols?
Please read the article below taking about MCAS, which is the prime suspect, and tell me if you still think that it’s a political move from the Chinese to ground them, or quite the opposite, a political move from the western world to keep them flying.

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing...
People seem to think this is a political move by the China, which may be true, but this is actually what they're supposed to do. According to the article, 96 737 MAX jets are operated by Chinese airlines, and the aircraft appears to be racking up a questionable safety record.

I wouldn't put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.

Lauda Air flight 004 [0] crashed in 1991 after inadvertent thrust reverser deployment mid-flight, which were not secured with positive locks since Boeing deemed this to be impossible. The FAA accepted Boeing's tests at face value. Regardless, Boeing insisted this would be a survivable event - it wasn't until Niki Lauda (airline's founder) insisted Boeing issue a statement to the contrary or to perform a test flight with him and two pilots attempting a deliberate reverse thrust deployment mid-flight. Boeing relented and acknowledged the defect.

The more groups looking at aviation safety, the better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004
The human mind is not a business. Fantasizing about the future is actually integral to the functioning of the human mind. It builds neural pathways and releases dopamine that makes you feel good about your choice, motivating you to execute.

Without the fantasy, the reality would never come.
yea, they aren't safe and that's been understood.
I'm disappointed that the FAA hasn't done this. The FAA seems to be adopting Gollum's "I'm not listening" stance. There is historical precedent for the FAA suspending a type certificate. This happened after a DC-10 crash in 1979.[1]

The facts are that the Indonesia crash just 5 months ago killed 189 people; this latest Ethiopia crash just killed 157 people. That's way too many dead people for a plane that has only been shipping since 2017, with less than 350 aircraft in service.

Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe the Ethiopian carrier has a bad rep for pushing pilots beyond prudent flying limits. But maybe there's something wrong with the plane!

The first crash was IMO almost 100% on Boeing. They significantly changed the operating behavior of the aircraft and didn't prominently publicize that.

I hope there won't be a third crash anytime soon. Right now if I were Boeing I'd be 100% in emergency design review mode. How would you like to be an engineer at Boeing right now? 346 people are dead. Is it something you did or failed to do? Did you fuck up what was a relatively minor re-design of a plane that started flying 52 years ago?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
https://outline.com/gevTtU - January 22 article linked in the OP with context of SQN Investors' call for a board overhaul, alleging mismanagement.

It's so intriguing how much power a 4% stockholder can have over a public corporation. But I guess that other investors likely don't want to step up to be an activist if someone else with even more exposure is willing to do so, and they'll happily vote alongside the activist who's ideally made themselves closer to the problem, and (those investors would hope) wouldn't have the baggage and misalignment that a founding team might.
There should be a rule on HN against flaunting the “amusing” way in which you misinterpreted something. This isn’t reddit.
Ha! I had fun with Red Alert 2 as well, though RA2's rules.ini seemed much more involved.

The RA2's rules.ini pretty much exposed the games internal hierarchical layout for units, i.e an IFV loaded with GI's is different compared to a IFV loaded with Engineers.

But serializing all of these led to a much larger file than RA1, it was quite a bit more difficult to hand-hack RA2's rules.ini. I ended up caving to a utility tool like TibEd and Red-Alchemist. [1]

Good times...

[1] https://www.tibed.net/tibed1/
There is evidence that nicotine alone is a complete carcinogen. It is pretty damaging on its own.
Yet another Medium moron that lumps lots of disparate ideas (about people) into just a handful of neatly-formed but incorrect blabs. Only in the Bay Area would "hippies" "conspire" with landlords to keep the engineers out.
Fuck myself, literally. This is me for the past 20 years. Imagining myself writing GPL licensed software, in Clojure, using Vim through an actual (not emulated) Linux terminal, for the domain I have the most knowledge, making millions.

:%s/Clojure/IDEALISTIC_LANGUAGE_OF_12_YEARS_AGO/g for older projects.
Yea, besides the glib answer of me no longer wanting to die because of chronic sinus pain, I do think I'm better off.

I was very much living on sugar before. So I'm no longer making my pancreas work overtime. The repeated inflammation of sinuses was probably going to give me cancer [1], so I'm better off there too. Cutting out gluten (celiac) means my small intestine isn't getting destroyed and I'm probably absorbing way more nutrients than I did before.

My big risks right now are colon cancer when I'm older. I've been eating more vegetables on the weekends to make up for it. As I age I'll also phase out red meat. I don't see any immediate negatives now.

No question I have health gains. Every negative, body destroying thing I was eating is out. I feel great. Now it's just mitigating long term risk.

1. https://www.cancernetwork.com/colorectal-cancer/chronic-infl...
From the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/boeing-737-max-8...:

> On a commercial level, China’s aviation sector could actually benefit from the tragedies in Indonesia and Ethiopia. A government-owned company in Shanghai has begun doing flight tests of a Chinese-made alternative to the Boeing 737, called the Comac C919. The C919 is the cornerstone of China’s effort to build a commercial aviation competitor to Boeing and Airbus.

It's worth noting that a) the C919 program has been severely troubled, and b) this hasn't stopped the Chinese government from arm-twisting Chinese airlines into over 1000 (!) orders. The original plan was for entry into service by 2014; as of now, they're still refining prototypes for test flights and the current goal of 2021 looks optimistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919#2018

Comac's other airliner, the ARJ21 regional jet, is (barely) in service but is not faring much better: "Initial operational feedback of aircraft was rather poor. The biggest issue was inability of the aircraft to land on wet runways."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21

...and per FlightRadar24, sole customer Chengdu Airlines is no longer flying its ARJ21s:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airlines/eu-uea/fleet
>I wouldn't put faith in the FAA to be beyond political influence and crack down on an American manufacturer quickly.

I would. The FAA grounded the Boeing 787 after some widely publicized battery fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_.... I would assume that they would do the same thing here, if this also turned out to be a widespread issue not related to aircraft maintenance or pilot training.
Do you mean incrementally?

Yes, zfs send sends the contents that's different between snapshots (or the entire dataset up to a snapshot, if you want).
The FAA has issued a similar suspension before: with the DC-10.

Mustard — The DC-10 Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-085TjhUPo

Aviation Regulation Agencies will ideally put safety first, and it is a shame that the 737 MAX is either unlucky to be involved in 2 deadly incidents or it does have a design flaw that should be revised.
Juuls can be relatively hard for long-time users (6+ months) just because they're so strong (50mg/ml, though at low output). But, you don't have to go cold turkey, as they now do 30mg/ml pods, and there's always normal vapes. I'd imagine in any case its not nearly as hard as normal cigarettes, though I wouldn't know (never smoked).

While they've somehow gotten the stigma of being flashy and hip, they're very much designed for a specific purpose: getting people off cigarettes. In doing so: they're expensive, harsh, and have poor flavor options.

I legitimately can't understand why high schoolers would be attracted to them when normal vapes are (1) substantially cheaper, (2) so much more flavorful, and (3) available on a wide variety of websites that do zero age verification. I mean, kids aren't smart, but its almost so unbelievable that, dare I say, the media is making broad generalizations and Juul is just taking the brunt of their ire.
This is true of all incremental backup systems.
Forget China, think about yourself. If you have an option to fly on a 737 Max or another aircraft right now, which would you choose? I suspect market forces will ground these planes anyway.
You asked for advice and mine is that nicotine is your addiction, with a lot of other components swirling around it, and you should decide if you want to quit nicotine or not. Patches, gums and vaporizers are just new and fancy ways to feed your body the ridiculously addictive nicotine it craves.

I also suggest reading "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking". If nothing else it's very encouraging. It might also help you realize that nicotine and alcohol have no special relationship. Not any more than cigarettes and food or cigarettes and sex. When you are a nicotine addict, everything becomes a trigger for your addiction. Trying to differentiate is just playing into the addiction and giving it special powers.
All tobacco sales are heavily regulated and taxed. The taxation amount increases each year until 2030 (i think).

It used to be possible to buy them duty-free if you were traveling internationally, but that loophole was closed too. An individual can only bring a max. of 200 individual cigarettes, into the country now without paying the Australian taxes.

I was a smoker, and I looked into roll-your-owns as an option to save on the rising costs, but it was a negligible difference. Gram for gram it was a tiny difference between purchasing loose pouch tobacco and pre-made cigarettes.

It is also illegal for anyone to cultivate it in any amount without a government license, and the penalties are very harsh.

There is apparently a black-market for unprocessed tobacco (known colloquially as chop-chop) but I haven't ever come across it. It is much easier to buy weed, which is still outright illegal here.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/pae75k/we-asked-a-tobacco...

For some idea of the crazy high prices;
https://www.cigars.com.au/products/cigarettes
> You can cryptographically sign things with your private key on your device

Unless your device is compromised.

> Either way, someone can theoretically forge your signature.

They could forge your signature, but to be effective, they need to forge thousands of signatures.

> You don’t have to get a list of those who didn’t vote. You just take the pile of punched ballots or whatever and replace them with your pile.

No, the ballots all have unique numbers and the list of numbers is stored separately. You'd have to buy off all the poll workers to pull that off, and you'd have to reconstruct all the records to match your fake ballots.

> All the matching of counts etc. can be done electronically too.

Sure it can be, but not securely, and security (and integrity) is the number one goal of a voting system. Convenience and speed are secondary.

Let's put it this way -- the State of California only does paper ballots. No voting machines are allowed in the most populous state. Why? Because they engaged many security consultants and couldn't figure out a way to vote electronically that was safer than paper.

It takes over a month to certify a California election, because every ballot is cross checked with the precinct records, they randomly recount various boxes of ballots, they check that the outcomes are in line with the polling data, and they verify every single signature on every absentee envelope.
Why the ad hominem and hand waving, instead of pointing out how my objections are wrong? You need only point out one or two, not the whole array - an array which, btw, increased as you continued to bring up new points.

I mean, I could simply respond with "Systems thinking shows that your views are wrong" and we would both be none the wiser.

I want to point out where you are inconsistent, especially when it results in what appears to be you making misinterpretations of what I wrote.

I want to point out places where I think your personal experiences result in what I think is an incorrect bias; in which case I try give concrete counter-examples (eg, non-universal presence of laundry machines, time costs involved in hydroponic farms)

And I want to point out places where your statements appear to be outright wrong (eg, regarding the lack of long-distance trade among hunter-gathers).

If that's a "take me down" attitude then shrug. How should I have responded to point of yours which I think are wrong or unsubstantiated? I guess I'll never know.
Saab also owns Vricon, basically the same thing as C3 but not aimed at consumers. They sold part of it to DigitalGlobe, and they use both aerial and satellite imagery for 3D models.

https://www.vricon.com/
This is not correct. Nicotine may be carcinogenic on its own and is definitely implicated in the advancement of cancer in the presence of other carcinogens, and it interferes with cancer response in the body and even cancer treatment. Caffeine has none of these properties and the usual vehicle for caffeine (coffee) has demonstrated protective effects against various cancers, heart disease, and diabetes.
Parent is arguing that they need to witness language use between members of their own species, and then not learn, in order to show they are incapable of language use.

The first human language user managed without this. (Though, if used for communication, it takes two... so there couldn't have been a first. OTOH there's an argument that language is primarily for thought, not communication, so it only takes one person. Secondly, evolution doesn't usually build a complete perfect system, but iterates, gradually improving. A puzzle here is that abstraction seems to be all or nothing, you can't have part abstraction. One resolution is that the necessary neuro-machinary was built up for other purposes, and abstraction emerged when some crucial capstone happened to be put into place. Or... maybe you can have some kind of "partial" abstraction...?)
Wonder if people with more hair in later years tend to be sleepier.
Flash boys was a great book for the uninitiated but you have to also take it with a grain of salt as it mostly parrots the point of view of those who got screwed by hft — meaning the ones who either disbelieved the possibility, weren’t imaginative / cunning enough to survive or otherwise thought they could shame the system into accepting the former status quo.
From your article:

> After adjusting for these variables, e-cigarette users were 34 percent more likely to have a heart attack, 25 percent more likely to have coronary artery disease and 55 percent more likely to suffer from depression or anxiety. Stroke, high blood pressure and circulatory problems were no longer statistically different between the two groups.

> Cigarette smoking carries a much higher probability of heart attack and stroke than e-cigarettes, but that doesn't mean that vaping is safe

From the CDC (to get a sense of the magnitude of the health effects of smoking [0]:

> People who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke.

None of these statistics talk about the base rate at all, which (imo) makes them very difficult to interperet, but I am too lazy to look up and factor in the base rate myself, so I just pretend that these statistics are meaningful without them.

To look at this from another perspective; we may not have studied e-cigarettes very much, but we have extensive studies showing the traditional cigarettes are very, very bad for your health. And, even absent empircal studies, we have strong theoretical reasons to believe that e-cigarettes are less bad; and the empirical studies seems to back this conclusion up.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm
They've done this, you can download a phone app for iOS or Android, where you can scan a QR code you see when you vote to verify your vote. A vote can be checked after i-voting for up to three times during half an hour.

Further reading: https://www.valimised.ee/en/internet-voting/checking-i-vote
Nope, the author is right—for many people, it's hard to find a better place for life and work than the Bay Area, and that's why so many people move here.

That's perfectly compatible with you and your friends disliking the Bay Area. For example, it's hard to find a more widely loved movie than the Godfather, yet some people dislike it, and probably argue just like you that people who like the Godfather must do it out of ignorance.

This argument doesn't look very solid here, however. Many people in the Bay Area moved in from cities and countries around the the world. I'd expect them to be less ignorant than average about life in other places. Just today at the public library I met a family from France and another one from Canada. I could myself legally move to and find work in any US state or EU country tomorrow. Yet, here we are.

At some point you need to realize that 1) liking or disliking a place is intensely personal, and 2) you don't need to seek validation for your personal choices even if they diverge from the mainstream.
This is nonsense. The optimizer makes decisions based on UB at compile-time. It should warn about this, especially when deleting code.

> overwhelmingly common case you won't see undefined behavior.

You think so. But this actually can be a source of serious security vulnerabilities. I want at least the option to know.
"zero tolerance for safety hazards."

Well everything has some risk. There should be some small tolerance, or else we wouldn't do anything.
Not grey, but "drab dark brown" Pantone 448C, chosen specifically as the least appealing color possible!

https://www.smh.com.au/national/does-this-colour-turn-you-of...
Yes, I do. It's easy to get into a habit of writing "for (size_t i = 0; ...)".
Look up refractory index. That’s all you need to know. The above is meaningless in this context.
This is actually what is done, you can download a phone app for iOS or Android, where you can scan a QR code you see when you vote to verify your vote. A vote can be checked after i-voting for up to three times during half an hour.

Further reading: https://www.valimised.ee/en/internet-voting/checking-i-vote
Nicotine remains a vasoconstrictor, that doesn’t change - some increased risk of certain cardiovascular disease isn’t going to shock anyone. Sugar is terrible for your cardiovascular health too though, yet we continue to ignore that fact.

Most studies I’ve seen on e-cigarettes have had faulty controls or are designed with unrealistic scenarios in mind, I hope that changes because proper study is certainly warranted.
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You're a PhD in a medicine/biology field I hope? Because otherwise, it might seem overly presumptuous to think you fully understand the effects of nicotine on health enough to make overarching conclusions. Like, the effects on atherosclerosis.
If this article resonated with that tuning fork in your head, you might be interested in “What's Your Future Worth?” by Peter Neuwirth.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/whats-your-future/97816...

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Your-Future-Worth-Decisions/dp/...
True but 2/3 failing instead of 1/1 is still the better option. I’ve read the Max only used one sensor for the MCAS system.

But I’m not an expert on the subject so I’ll defer to the reports and more knowedgable people.
A few domains lapsed, and I took spoiled.tv offline (as it was just burning a hole in my wallet). Sometimes, you need to know when to call it quits.
This isn't true. Even if your experience is contrary to what I'm about to say.

Melatonin isn't more effective by increasing the dose. Especially past 3mg. The body doesn't register anything past 3mg. But you also need to keep in mind that the placebo effect is strong.
I’m most curious what 737 Max pilots think. Are they comfortable flying this plane tomorrow? I assume we’ll be hearing from them and their unions in the coming days, and would put a good amount of trust in what they say (they are the ones who know the airplanes and are at personal risk of death if things go wrong).