skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with ecigs is that they are way more polluting than regular cigarettes, due to all the plastic cartridges from the liquid and the batteries in the ecig devices.

So regardless of anything else, it’s good that ecigs are banned as much as possible.
The list has over 1600 recipients making it a bit larger than for "personal use". The quoted 187 recipients might just be one batch of recipients the examined mail was sent to.

The sender is also non-repentant and is running some sort of hate campaign.
The federal reserve does exactly that and is a bank.
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Yeah, that's proper procedure--except for the scotch tape. Our lab techs need to tediously remove ticks from adhesive every day because some authority (first-aid manuals?) is telling people to do that. It ends up in pieces after extraction which hinders us from identifying the species, life stage, and duration of engorgement. Hopefully this practice phases out with time.
The idea that my local government is telling me I can't have a perfectly legal product delivered to my home is infuriating.
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Nice, thanks! Yeah, it's ridiculous that news sites seem to be deathly averse to actually linking to sources; if they took a cue from Wikipedia maybe they'd be less vulnerable to "fake news" accusations...

Thanks to that, I was able to find the "legislative background" for the restriction on non-FDA-approved tobacco products: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190312%2...

And for the prohibition of tobacco sale/manufacture/distribution from city property: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190311%2...
"The U.S. has higher prices for most health care services and prescription drugs, according to available internationally comparable data."

"While available data are limited to select services and drugs, we find that higher prices – more so than utilization – explain the United States’ high health spending relative to other high-income countries." [1]

Perhaps the US is closer to those other countries than you claim.

1. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-do-...
Also not an expert here, but doesn't an end mill have flutes too?
This piqued my interest, because that's the same way TDD works for me.

And then it starts with "Let's go through an example together. Consider the random type signature that I just made up:"

Hmm...I never have a type signature as a starting point, random or not. I have some sort of requirement, some sort of functionality I want out of the code. Soft fuzzy requirements.

And the types rarely if ever tell me what the function does. Heck, a function that's int x int -> int could be just about anything. How about string -> int? Does it convert the string to an integer or count the vowels?
Duplicate comment.
BTC is not bitcoin because it simply deviates from the whitepaper by removing zero conf transactions and adding segwit technocrap
We shouldn't need a sales person to check out anymore. Self checkout (perhaps with employee verification for expensive items) should be fine. That frees up people to talk shop and the rest of us can just scan our items and leave.
“New idea, cigarettes for the homeless, we'll call them hobos.”
Thing with libra is that its not a cryptocurrency nor does it move the distributed agenda forward. It moves transactions from happening off-the platform to being on it.

FB is in it for themselves. The consortium of third party players is for shielding themselves from anti-trust concerns
Anecdotally, I (as a college student) know more than 20x the number of people who vape than people who smoke. Smoking is bad, but vaping is becoming incredibly mainstream with young people to the point where it's a bigger health risk.
Until "hi how you doing, I saw you decided not to fund my father's healthcare" or "wow, $30, he makes 200k a year! What an asshole!"
MIDI DB
Even in Roman times currency were debased though. Financial technology has a pretty long history (Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, was a pretty cool read on that).
Ecigs cause tons of litter from the refill cartridges and from the batteries. Ecigs are much worse of a pollution problem than actual cigarettes.
Pretty ironic given the same day Juul buys[1] 123 Mission for approx 400 million dollars.

[1]: https://sfist.com/2019/06/18/juul-just-bought-a-28-story-som...
Largely because the US continues to subsidize medical R&D. Free riding is a good gig if you can get it.
The point still stands. It's like if you knew liquor stores would just break the law and sell alcohol to anyone who could see over the counter, and you won't do anything to stop them...instead your response is to ban only beer.

The (wholly unfounded by extant evidence)theory is that substantial numbers of teens who vape are going to move on to the more harmful cigarettes, and so e-cigarettes should be discouraged. Great. However, if that's your theory, step one should be ban regular cigarettes.
The gory death warnings are the most useless counter measure I’ve seen. We have them all over in France and they have no effect. They have no effect because people still think it’s cool to smoke.
It's a ban on non-FDA approved products. They need to get approved by 2022 anyway, and presumably can apply earlier. At worst its a two year ban. It doesn't seem awful to say the product needs to go through the same evaluations that cigarettes have already gone through
I've worked with engineers implementing Salesforce at two different companies.

While SF may or may not be the right solution for a problem, I disagree with your assertion that developing for Salesforce will in any way prepare you for a "real" programming job.

You would mostly learn how to configure a lot of UI, maybe write some custom widgets (with Lightning), and write a a little bit of integration code here and there - in an arcane Java-like language.

All you really learn is the Salesforce ecosystem.

You can make very decent money if you can sell yourself. As others have mentioned, Salesforce could be seen as a sophisticated employment scheme for consultants.

But I would advice anyone to steer clear of it as a career path. At least until you have some proper experience in other technologies.
Interesting. If we ignore whether or not this specific implementation will work, this would actually be a great way to store data for the Permaweb. I would imagine such resilient data would be a great asset when combined with content hashing!
Easily. Vape usage among children and teenagers is going up. That should be stopped.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/news-releases/2018/12/...

>Reported use of vaping nicotine specifically in the 30 days prior to the survey nearly doubled among high school seniors from 11 percent in 2017 to 20.9 percent in 2018. More than 1 in 10 eighth graders (10.9 percent) say they vaped nicotine in the past year, and use is up significantly in virtually all vaping measures among eighth, 10th and 12th graders.

It's already illegal for kids to buy them, but it's trivial for them to just get'm anyway when the shops are already selling them. This will mean that kids will have to leave the city to get it, or get it on the black market. That will reduce usage, and send a message to other cities that it's a tenable proposition (somebody had to be the first to ban it).

There are valid issues. The typical anti-prohibition ones that crop up are "criminal black market uprising" i.e. the mob in Chicago during alcohol prohibition. I'm not sure this is as valid as vape usage isn't as prevalent as alcohol, nor is it as integral a part of our culture. Worth watching, though.

Another issue is the apparent hypocrisy - for some reason, cigarettes can still be sold in the city, besides being decidedly more disgusting, environmentally unfriendly, and unhealthy. On the one hand, they got this vape ban through quick, so it might finally allow the banning of tobacco products as a whole to come through as well. On the other hand, why target vapes before cigarettes? I have no idea.

In any case, the goal is to get kids to stop smoking. Doing one part of that (banning juuls) isn't the entire battle, and shouldn't be treated as such.

There's the devil's advocate argument. I personally believe that a better solution is no prohibition, but massive tax to ensure the proper cost is being levied on these products - i.e., for cigarettes, purchasers need to offset their decision by providing the State with the funds to cover the environmental, public health, and public image impact of the cigarettes. Similar to the carbon tax argument. Furthermore, government resources being levied on educational outreach to ensure that the public is aware of the genuine detriments to these kinds of products. Finally (this is already implemented), ensuring companies like Marlboro aren't allowed to make false claims regarding the unhealthiness of their products, even hinting as such through imagery (i.e. showing an ad of a doctor smoking or something).
This has to be political, as singling out vaping while allowing alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, AND requesting tax dollars for "safe spaces" for drug injection, make zero common sense.

Let this be a lesson - politicians will greenlight you as long as you fill their coffers
Almost 2 years ago I saw a comment on HN from a guy who quit smoking after reading Alan Carr's "The Easy Way". As a person who was heavily addicted, often smoking more than a pack a day, struggling to quit for good, I decided to read the book. It did wonders - for almost 2 years I haven't smoked and I don't miss it. It also helped friends to whom I recommended the book. I wanted to drop a comment here in case I can inspire others to give it a try.
This very much HN bubble thinking. In the grand scheme of things, a very small percentage of jobs are conducive for remote work.
This runs on the original bitcoin protocol (SV). Bitcoin core (BTC) has been systematically dismantled and destroyed by the federal reserve who funds the bitcoin core development team. The software you are viewing is brilliant. It is the beginning of things that will fundamentally change the way payments are performed in the next few years. Well done, congrats and thank you.
Have you every done anything entrepreneurial in healthcare or just tried to introduce a new or different treatment standard?

1) It just takes longer in this field. Takes longer, but not necessarily more difficult (technically).

It's a nightmare and when I helped consult to a couple teams for a bit I was shocked at the slow speed everything gets done at. Many reasons for that, but it's hard to describe how unlike a typical fast moving startup it is (unless your not changing patient protocols).

2) ML is moving faster than it was 10 year ago. Way faster. So comparing work done 20 years ago is difficult, they just didn't have the same resources, ecosystem, and momentum.

3) It's only a hard problem in practice not in principle and well suited to ML. Unlike some problems where difficulty in practice doesn't match difficulty in principle (like warp drive space travel), the remaining engineering and open research questions don't suggest anything that will hit a wall, or prevent ultimate success on the order of the time frame suggested.
Hi, Lisbeth Kaufman here (CoFounder and CEO of KitSplit). This is a shitty situation, I feel terribly for Yohahn and the other owner who had their gear stolen. I wanted to personally respond to let you all know that we are fixing this and making them whole- and then some.

Since we launched in 2015, tens of thousands of filmmakers and creators have safely rented gear to and from each other on KitSplit with incredibly positive experiences.

Recently, however, someone stole $3,500 cameras from two of our owners. To put it mildly, this was an awful experience for the owners. One of them wrote about it on the internet, as you know. At first, we reacted by basically telling him “sorry, you knew the risks (or should have). It’s all in our terms of service!” And technically speaking, it’s true. Traditional gear rental insurance that we (and all rental platforms) offer doesn’t cover theft by the renter.

But traditional gear rental insurance is inadequate. And so is our policy.

We’ve been pondering this problem for a while. With this recent theft, it is clearly time to solve this problem.

So we’ve decided to create a new insurance product for our owners: the KitSplit Theft Protection Owner Guarantee.

The Owner Guarantee means that KitSplit owners will be covered in all scenarios, whether damage, loss, or theft. To make good on this promise, we’re starting by reimbursing the two owners who’s gear was recently stolen.

We are the first rental platform to offer coverage of this kind. It fills a major insurance loophole, and it’s the right thing to do for our customers.

You are welcome to read more about the problem and how we are fixing it here. https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...
I stand corrected, however these are clearly still at the experimental stage, and I don't see how the tech is anywhere near ready for commercial use.

>Why does this falsehood persist on the Internet that electric aircraft are impossible? You're not the first to make such a claim.

This is absolutely the first I've heard of these planes or this company, and I keep up fairly well with tech news.

>That's faster than California's high speed rail and with a comparable or longer per-leg travel distance.

A turtle is faster than California's high speed rail, since there's no such thing as high speed rail in California. They canceled it, largely because it was going to be horribly expensive (even for HSR) and really slow since it was going to take an inefficient route that was driven by politics instead of geography. You're right: electric aircraft aren't impossible, however high speed rail in California (or probably anywhere in the US) is.
This. The red pill that many will reuse to swallow.
Only time will tell
This is only a problem with the cheaper Zuul-style units, which use disposable parts with vendor lock-in. Even with those, I'd not automatically believe that they are more polluting than cigarette butts.
You don't waste more taxes on cigarette smokers than any other person. Almost everybody are sick towards the end of their life and waste the system money exactly like smokers, sometimes even more because they live longer. Not to mention the taxes on smoking which cover any supposed cost to society and probably much more than that. If anything it is the smokers that finance you. And don't make me start on the cost of many other lifestyle choices, from people who break their arms during some sport activity to people who stopped smoking and became fat and have all the issues driving from it. Calculating which lifestyle is more costly to society is very hard because there are so many parameters and implications, it is better we just leave this issue alone and let everybody live the lifestyle they like or move to a fully privatised healthcare where each person pay for their own problems. But nobody wants that except from Americans
Is that different than somebody insuring their own car at an insurance company and then pretending it was stolen?
> to drive out the homeless

How nice of you to think of the homeless too. Where do you want to drive them to?
Well, a major public health concern right next to fast food. That's about the level of harm we're talking here.
Right. That’s Mathematics/CS in general, right? The lecture is usually driven by the students progressing the proof. That’s bucket one, I think. I know most of us used scratch work but it wasn’t notes. It’s more like swap space than general disk. I rarely looked at scratch space again, though I preemptively held all those books with me.
They're paid to add value to the customers and be people the customers can trust. This is valuable because when the customer needs something, they ask this person for their 2 cents. When the problem is something a Salesforce tool can solve, the customer is more likely to choose it and either give Salesforce money, or save a bunch of money not having to buy an extra thing (saved money means more budget left over for Salesforce).

Salesforce is built on mutually beneficial relationships. If you go under, they lose your business. If you grow, they make more money selling you more seats.

It's exactly what business should be.
Really? It seems like every pack of 20 cigs, seemingly at least 10 of the filters end on the ground somewhere, apparently based on some kind of fanciful "Oh, this isn't litter somehow..." thinking.
Vaping is epidemic in US middle schools and high schools. Restrooms are filled with vaping smoke and causing lot of problems for others. Schools are not doing anything about it.
Imagine if San Francisco could come up with some similarly hardline solutions to our actual problems!
Woot! This is NCC Group’s office. Are they getting kicked out?
As per the NPR program I heard last night, this is already the case in SF.

Info for those interested here: https://harmreduction.org/issues/overdose-prevention/dope-sf...
not all tumors are malignant
Wrong. Bitcoin SV follows the whitepaper the most
This growth percentage is for E-cigarettes, not for smoking.

And when were E-cigs invented anyway? Comparing against 2011 may be a way to get big percentage numbers, without describing much about prevalence.
To simultaneously answer many of the "usually you don't want X to be selected":

So don't always allow selecting everything. If you start your selection inside "content", constrain to content, don't select labels. If you start on a label, select labels and maybe content too.

Native apps do this all the time in small degrees, people are used to it: "select all" selects content, not chrome, and it's context-sensitive in many cases (e.g. select all in a folder doesn't select parent folders even if they're visible).

Don't block selection please.
It's called a "Leveraged Buyout".

Then couple that with liquidating all the valuable assets with all the profits going to the private equity group.

Meanwhile, your private equity group is also your landlord, and they charge outrageous property rental prices.

Once all value to the property has been extracted and transferred to the private equity group, and the only thing left is liabilities, you then go bankrupt and try to flog off the liabilities to the highest bidder (who is stupid enough to pay money for something that has negative value).

That's the history of Bain Capital, Blackrock, and all the other Private Equity Groups.
You point out another business opportunity: a developer who understands exactly what regulatory hurdles you need to jump in order to release medical software. I'm not sure exactly what's required in this case, but I'm doubtful there are many cloud providers who are HIPAA compliant.
They can't solve the hard problems, so they look for crowd pleasers and throw money at them.

They aren't throwing money at this one, obviously.
Because the monetary economists work to improve the economy of their whole country, while "cryptocurrency advocates" are more likely to be vouching for a system that stands to personally benefit them?
Not Juul, evidently.
Looks like a lot of new accounts astroturfing this submission?

They are coming from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoincashSV/comments/c5eg27/its_t...
Easily. Vape usage among children and teenagers is going up. That should be stopped.

Because banning substances has worked so well in the past - see weed.
Why are there so many violators marked as "unknown"? Is that from the sanction being redacted or the aggregator's lack of information? The header paragraph states that not all violations are made public, but the ones that are made public can also be redacted?
That would work too.

If we incentivize those who are childless and have shrunk their carbon foot print, that would also encourage people to make thoughtful decisions about baby making. Example: If someone didn’t have any children at all, then they should get tax free status or reduced premiums etc.

A woman increases her carbon foot print 10-20 times with every child. Medical costs and food and transport and pretty much everything is borne by the rest of us. Suspend benefits. Tax excess children and give tax breaks or retirement benefits to those who didn’t have children.

I suspect that retirement benefits would be a better incentive than tax free status. Most people hope that children would take care of them when they get older. It’s not worth the true cost of over population.
Well sort of, only online for now:

Once the company re-established itself online, Shmoel said at the time, then they’d be able to consider a move back into the physical retail space in the form of Circuit City Express stores, and a potential store-within-a-store model

With the ongoing decline of brick-and-mortal retail in general, it seems unlikely that they'll ever have a significant physical presence.
You can write to them about your feelings that they should be focusing on different things.

- Board.of.Supervisors@sfgov.org

- https://sfbos.org/contacts-office-clerk-board

Or if you have thoughts about this particular issue, it is now in Mayor Breed's hands:

- MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org

- https://sfmayor.org/contact-mayor-london-breed
> the adoption rate of smoking among younger folks has spiked since flavoured e-cigs were introduced

Are you calling vaping "smoking"? Because that would be disingenuous.

Also you may as well just say "since e-cigs were introduced" since there was never a time that they weren't flavored.
I wonder if the business model is only viable because auto parts tend to be much more expensive. It's probably easier to justify shelf space for an item that's $50-$200 than using that space for several $0.03-$0.50 components.
Spend everything you earn on enjoyable activities and experiences, hyperinflation may be next.

(somewhat sarcastic, but it is possible to make yourself miserable saving for a future that never arrives, so in practice some balance should be applied)
You might take some small comfort in knowing that you're not alone.

I too wish to know the actual truth of these matters, and to arrive at the truth by polite and thoughtful discussion.

There's something about these topics that just brings out the worst in people, or draw in a worse kind of participant than the usual topics.
Maybe they need a competitor that primarily offers full registration and partner insurance for gear creating a national registry for proof of ownership and history. This would be amazing for bikes too (there are state registries that overlap but much done to optimize them) but mostly exists for cars/etc given states and insurance companies communicate who owns/registers/covers what serial numbers. If it's for sale by owner, check the serial against the database to see if it pings as stolen or lost.

Then, as a secondary service, it links owners with renters through a much more complex vetting/data gathering process. Operate more like Wikimedia/pedia where the loftier goal (for Wiki* preserving and serving human knowledge) of protecting owners via the registry is more important than profiting off questionable practices or no liability in cases like this.

I'm big on this ever since my bike was stolen and sat in a local bike co-op shop before getting sold because the co-op didn't legally check the serial against the state's stolen bikes database. Some kid I went to high school with basically got a "Sorry, it's his bike," speech from a cop as they cut the lock and gave me back my property after I found it, serial and all, outside a local park. If the co-op had followed the process, my bike would have been returned earlier and the kid wouldn't have wasted his time and money. Nobody followed the rules and we all lost out.
Most ecigs are the cheaper disposable kind.