skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never understand why lawmakers think that fruit and other flavorings for tobacco are aimed at getting kids hooked. It's almost like they think no adult has ever enjoyed fruit or candy, and that making teens smoke plain cigarettes will keep them from being rebellious.

I've tried almost every variation of ecigarette mod out there except mechanical mods, because I'm not an idiot enough to know I'm too much of an idiot to use one safely. Nicotine salt (the type used in juul and smok nord, among others) are the best- balance of nicotine from the sub-ohm types without the obscene amount of vapor pouring into your lungs, and the filter doesn't constantly clog / burn like the older, smaller pen and marker varieties.

Does it suck that also makes them perfect for teens to hide their addiction? Sure. Then again, there's also a market starting to boom for tobacco-free nicotine pouches, using tea leaves or other filler. It's also way, way cheaper to get the liquid for vaping online than it is in stores anyway.

This ban, at the scope of the city, won't help teens, and it's only going to hurt the people living there. For better or worse, drugs like caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and THC are here to stay.
Holes in Agda are a good bit more powerful than in Haskell, and agda's emacs mode has a bunch of very powerful commands for working with them, eg: listing possible values, automatically filling, splitting them by case, etc.

For example, for this post's "jonk" example I just had to copy the type into emacs, reformat it a bit into Agda syntax, then press C-c C-a and it automatically figured out the solution that the author worked through manually: λ z z₁ z₂ → z₁ (λ z₃ → z₂ (z z₃))

See the full list of commands at https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.2/tools/emacs-mode.html
I noticed yesterday that the produce I buy from the asian grocery is cheaper than the supermarket.

It's also bigger. I wonder if the produce gets sorted into smaller stuff to the supermarkets and bigger to the discount produce retailers.
It’s referring to thd Middle East meddling we got involved during Bush and to a somewhat lesser extent Obama presidencies (though North AfricanNear East and Middle East Arab spring was a debacle as well).
Which wouldn't be a terrible idea. Insurance is just another way to crowdsource money for stable/safe investments where the front is peace of mind. One could probably operate under a pure risk assessment model but why not put the extra cash into short term T bills then maybe once more cushion is established low risk mutual funds?

Hopefully I'm missing some major regulatory issue.
>Cryptocurrency advocates saying, "we know what's best for you" is super troubling to me.

How is this fundamentally different from an unelected monetary economist working at the IMF or Federal Reserve deciding they know what's best for millions of people in a country? Given that you're presenting a country that can manipulate their own currency as the superior choice.
Technically it can become undercollateralized, but there is a recollateralization mechanism through dilution of the MKR token.
They are muscling Juul for money. They don't want another Uber incident where they don't get any cash.

SF City is one of the most corrupt institutions I know.
Let's work through the logic here:

San Francisco assumes that the existing controls on the purchase of tobacco products by minors are a failure. They must act.

San Francisco's reaction to this is to ban all tobacco products from the city, for the children. This is perfectly rational.

But wait, no, their reaction is to ban the harm reduction option and keep the worst tobacco product known to be the most addictive and the most harmful to health on store shelves, where they believe they can't keep it from being purchased by minors.

The headline should read, "San Fransisco insists that minors switch to cigarettes." That's the only rational conclusion any sane person could draw from this.
And in the same spirit: https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-08-24
Kind of stupid. What battle does this honestly win?

Isn't vaping an improvement over smoking?

Vaping nicotine and e-cigarettes are both far more innocuous than marijuana and THC/CBD.
I believe this is not advised nowadays as oil makes the tick more likely to vomit, increasing risk of infection.
It's worth noting that that fine was made under the Data Protection Act 1998 (implementing the Data Protection Directive), which is what was in force before the GDPR became law.

The ICO might well consider a similar breach worthy of a bigger fine now.
I do agree the transaction rate and fee are horrid. But there are other coins that solve this problem in a dectralized manner. Also there are some block chains that all cross chain atomic swaps. I've been working with a blockchain called Xaya and there is mentions of maybe implementing that as well. I might help on that front after my game is finished. More importantly though. Xaya implements merged mining and you can mine xaya( the coin is called chi) and bitcoin at the same time. So there are not so many problems as people claim or think with crypto.
And needles for heroin distributed for free
The analogy was that GDPR fines, similar to other administrative fines (which was the term that had escaped me) like traffic tickets, do not require damage to be shown (although it plays a role in setting the amount of the fine) - unlike e.g. cases pressing for damages, brought by a wronged party, would be.

The law regarding dash cams (if there is an explicit one, I don't know enough about the situation in Austria) might just declare it a privacy violation, and thus defer to the enforcement mechanisms created by GDPR.
I know what you mean.

However we might not be awash in deer if we hadn't first 'culled' all the predators. Wolves for example.¹

1: http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/AppalFor/Readings/leopold.pdf
Based on that justification, perhaps SF should also consider banning people from shooting up on the sidewalk? You know, for public health.
Well it seems like they don't consider this voluntary parting their problem so it's probably not in that statistic. I'm sure it would have a pretty big drop if it were included.
Furthermore, the fact that they are so addictive is (in itself) a reason to tightly regulate them.
Agree completely, just used art as its an easy example.
that feature has been there for at least 6 years (for as long as i've been working with SF). It's the most basic relationship using a custom object.
I thought the health effects of e-cigs were relatively benign? I know it's common to consider the health profile of a substance with 'no substance' as the basis of comparison, but people seem to like stimulation and get it however they can. I don't like e-cigs, but I imagine they have to be one of the least harmful ways of getting stimulated.

Is there a safer stimulant and do you think this ban will encourage people to use that?
I could understand a "secondhand smoke"-like law being applied to them, but a ban? When cigarettes are legal?
> The geography of the disease also fits a spread from the Plum Island facility. See the same article for a map.

No, it doesn't, considering it was documented in Scotland in the 1700s. The Plum Island facility was started in 1954.

> From wikipedia: "The review in Army Chemical Review concluded 'Lab 257 would be cautiously valuable to someone writing a history of Plum Island'".

The actual quote is:

> The review in Army Chemical Review concluded "Lab 257 would be cautiously valuable to someone writing a history of Plum Island, but is otherwise an example of fringe literature with a portrayal of almost every form of novelist style."

In other words, "it gets the biographical stuff mostly right, before it goes nutty".

> Anyway, in summary, there is enough evidence to ask a reasonable question: which puts the onus back on the government, or you, to provide credible evidence that Lyme was not developed there.

Lyme's historical record predating the very existence of the lab is fairly conclusive proof that it wasn't developed there.
The homeless in SF use cigs, not e-cigs. It would've therefore been productive to actually ban the sale of cigs instead so as to drive out the homeless, but why would one expect an ounce of unbiased logic from politicians?
Within the US you can only be "listed" on 1 exchange. That listing exchange is considered the "primary" exchange.

Trades can occur anywhere: on-exchange, off-exchange, ATSs, over-the-counter OTC, etc...

But it gets more complicated when you go global as you can have cross-listings, as is common with Canadian stocks in the US. POT (Potash) for example is listed on TSX and cross-listed on NYSE... and can also trade on any other US exchange...
Fujifilm issues advisory after discovering counterfeit 35mm rolls of film
I made this after seeing the n-th bank try to limit me from copy+pasting my account number in. As if me typing in 16 numbers is going to be more accurate than copy and pasting from 1pass.

It reenables the following functionality on sites that disable it:

* Ability to paste content
* Ability to copy content
* Ability to cut content
* Ability to right click content
* Ability to autocomplete certain inputs
* Ability to select text
* Ability to drag and drop text to/from inputs

If a website does not allow you to copy and paste simply click the icon and try again.

Source code here: https://github.com/jonluca/PasteEnabler

Let me know if you see any sites where it does not work or that do more complicated JavaScript limits - it's very rewarding finding ways to break their "security" implementations.
I agree that board games have gotten cheap as the market for them has shrunk. Spinners are particularly bad.

Conventional toys are much, much better. Are you kidding? The plastic manufacturing techniques available today put 70s toys to pale. Computer modeling also makes more complicated designs possible.

In the 70s, action figures were lucky to have a blocky head with eyebrows painted on in about the right place. Modern GI Joe figures have full naso-labial folds and neck musculature. It isn't even close.

In 1985, Optimus Prime was able to transform from a blocky truck to a truck rotated vertically with a robot head and arms that kinda swung out. You had to add the fists and you lost them almost immediately.

Modern Optimus figures transform from an aerodynamic semi-truck into a fully articulated robot samurai that looks better than the one drawn in the original cartoon.

Have you compared a modern plush to one from the 80s? Take a look at the stitching. You can get plushes for $10 now that would have cost $80 in 1985 and had less facial detail.

Toys are mostly better made now. We just don't care about them as much and they fade into the generic plastic darkness.
FWIW, that was a soft fork, since it's backward compatible. It did cause a brief chain fork, however.
I hate cigarettes, I hate the litter, the smell, and the smokers' belief that they have the divine right to pollute my airspace. I also hate the taxes I spend on keeping them in hospital - but. E cigarettes don't cause litter, the smoke is far less offensive. If people are going to smoke they will smoke. SF would be far better off banning actual cigarettes.
I know a bunch of people with you and e-cigs have real benefits for allowing people to ween off the addiction that patches never offered... it's just that the marketing actions of these companies have been incredibly irresponsible and the inaction from the US Surgeon General has been embarrassing.

I really don't want anyone to feel shamed over their smoking habit but it's an unhealthy thing and if you get into as an adult you should do so only when you're fully aware of the consequences - the way they've been advertised has hooked a lot of minors.
This is nearly a universal law in the sales world: products/services pitched to salespeople always 1) are expensive and 2) come with their own sales team who are slick and/or aggressive.
I've seen it from sales training, to software and everything in-between.
> a GAI randomly plucked out of space of possible minds

Sorry, but I don't think you have any rational basis for imagining what the "space of possible minds" represents. The only minds with human-level intelligence we know of are human minds that have (with variation) human values.

The claim you're making is analogous to saying "any extraterrestrial life we find won't be carbon-based because out of the space of all possible substrates for life, carbon is a very particular one", but that's an ill-founded supposition because we have a sample of N=1 and maybe carbon-based life is the only kind of life there is.

Maybe a true GAI mind will be "like us", maybe it won't be, but we don't have anywhere near enough data to speak with confidence about it.
Last year, when GDPR was heavily discussed, people were criticizing those who decided to just stop their small hobby websites because of the potential GDPR exposure.

The argument back then was that they were overreacting, that we didn't understand how Europe works, that you'd only get fined after repeated warnings about violating procedures etc.

I'm sure the private person was dumb for doing what he did, but that doesn't invalidate the general point: unless you're sure you that can afford making these kinds of mistakes, don't provide a service on the internet that might be used by EU citizens.

The benefits, whatever they might be, just don't justify the risks.
Lookup the CAS number and search for it on lookchem.com
In my community in western Kansas, there are two hospitals nearly equidistant from us. An ambulance crew asks which one do we want to go to.

Why would cost not play a role in that decision?
The HN response seems strongly negative so far. Can someone educated in the space play devil’s advocate and share ideas on why it might be a good move?
- What about the point that the total headcount demand for these supervisors/proofreaders will likely be drastically reduced?

- The idea of cross-training radiologists to understand ML model development might be an ideal, but it's hard to see more than single digit percentages of folks who could make that transition. The jobs are way different and require years of ramp up. Even the mindset and the cultural approaches to work seems different, based on only a couple couple times I've worked on cross discipline teams.

But hey, it's still unfolding, I could be wrong about the consulting. If you figure out a model and how to sell it ping me, I'd be glad to provide feedback to help you refine it quickly.
It's not grand theft auto. It's called "theft by conversion".
Chrome gmail delays on Linux fixed by running Firefox?
My gmail was freezing up with dismissed ads and other functionality in Chrome running on Ubuntu Linux. I switched to Firefox, and now it works great. Clearly there is support in Chrome for gmail that is affecting performance on Linux. As anyone had a similar experience?
more importantly, it means one less custom object available based on your license. For example, there's nothing stopping you from making 100 custom object available to Customer Community licensed users. However, with the license you get 10 and when they randomly audit your instance find you at +90 the bill will be shocking to say the least. Pay up or get your instance turned off and lose everything.
How LinkedIn Uses Your Phone Number
> Grr; I know what I'm doing, and found the parts I need in three minutes. Can I pay now? Nope, some dolt is explaining some cockamamie project idea to the clerk, asking for suggestions that add up to half of the design.

This could easily be solved with the McDonald's model: Provide self-service kiosks where you can order what you want and pay and have a "pickup" register which also serves as the hub for online orders.

> Guy behind him brought a toaster and wants to ask how to get it working again. Has zero troubleshooting skills.

That one can be solved by integrating a "maker space" into the store, with either volunteers or paid staff. Even better: combine this concept with an entirely automated warehouse so that online, in-person and "maker space" orders can be served basically 24/7.

All electronic components, from tiny SMD resistors over huge electrolytic condensators to processors, are available on machine-feedable spools anyway for mass production... so it shouldn't be that hard to automate anyway with existing components!

(Please, someone, please implement this idea!)
Thinking Like a Mountain [pdf]
Crazy. Good for them. It's like we forget about big tobacco. From a health/social point of view I'm glad they coming out ahead of everyone else. Curious how it will play out in the end, and if the Mayor intends on signing it.
Really, really awful legislation. Just shows you what a terrible job the SF supervisors are doing.
Wow. This is truly phenomenal. I thought Bitcoin was a worthless ponzi scheme. Really looking forward to seeing Bitcoin SV progress.
> Which means you can slowly use type holes to chip away at a difficult implementation, without ever really knowing what you're doing.

Yeah, look! I started with a function signature and a little _. Lo and behold, fifty seven holes later, I have a graph-coloring optimal register allocator for MIPS for my compiler back end. Don't ask me how it works, but the type system assures it.
I was just in Japan, and I saw no shortage of children and young people while I was there. In fact, I saw far more children than I ever do in cities here in the US.

The difference over there is that kids are born into families that are at least middle-class, while here in the US a huge number of children are born in poverty and raised by single parents. I don't think having a higher birthrate is going to turn out well in the long run when that's the case, compared to a country where children have a much better upbringing.

In Japan, they have to worry about the younger generations supporting the elderly.

In the US, we have to worry about the productive generations (the ones of working age) supporting both the elderly AND all the children and families in poverty and not having that bite us in the ass when those kids become adults (e.g., committing crimes, something that Japan doesn't have much trouble with).
No. I regret not having kids earlier so I could have more. I started late and stopped at 2, as I could see it was hard for me to keep up.

As for missed opportunities, I have had a lot of them, but not so much because of the kids. They do tie you down and keep you from making BIG life changes. But they also drive you to succeed as you feel a need to provide.

As for the article, assuming it was like the one in the guardian, there are many things wrong with it:
1) it was an opinion piece
2) it used very bad logic that would only be acceptable in a 3rd grade science fair, but nowhere else

I hope you did not marry your wife just because she was hot at the time. Look for other features to value in her. Myself I have grown a bit large, so I know I could improve by changing.
The rabbit hole goes much much much much deeper.
Here, though, it's being used to provide fake signals to a true machine-learning algorithm – Google's clicktrail-influenced ranking. So more of a 'complement' than an 'opposite'.
So salesforce is worth it because it lets you close your eyes and pretend someone else is living up to your duty of protecting your customers data?

I've seen this in action, so I know people are willing to pay for it, but it seems really shitty.
As a result the entire planet is in grave danger due to climate change. How do we fix this? To borrow a little from Switzerland, I think a direct democracy at every level of government is needed. But first we must have many more remote jobs so people don't feel pressured to live in cities. They can then result in the creation of new cities elsewhere with a direct democracy via cryptographically secure apps.
Bitcoin SV is a scam, chiefly promoted by a con-artist who has attempted to use libel suits to silence legitimate critics and whose academic papers read like chatbot plagiarism.

It's not bitcoin, and it's not what anyone outside of the SV cult thinks of when they hear the term bitcoin.
>You get mostly normal produce at average prices

The article says the prices are cheaper. Do you have evidence this is not so?
I would venture a guess that people who know of Dunning Kruger effect won’t write articles about it because they don’t know the subject well enough and someone else might be the right person.
We don't employ orangutans as chauffeurs. ;-P

On second thought I bet you could make a decent auto-auto out of a dog's brain... https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
there is an epidemic of childhood vaping going on and they aren't really going to switch to cigarettes because cigarettes are no longer cool.
You don't sound like you're overdoing it, but get yourself screened for atrial fib.

Family member finally quit smoking to ride more, went a little too gung-ho on endurance and developed an afib. He couldn't take blood thinners due to arthritis meds. Mixing those is apparently worse than your stroke risk. But he lost that lottery and threw a clot a few years ago and things were pretty bad.
Here is the link to the proposed ballot measure, which was somehow not linked to by ANY of the sources covering this story.
https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/LI031919.pdf
Looks to be two separate measures, one banning all nicotine products from being sold, manufactured, or distributed from City property, the 2nd banning all Non-FDA approved products (vapes) from the entire city: 190311 & 190312, respectively.
Show HN: Dragonfly Reverb
I use Linux for my music hobby, and wanted a decent hall-style reverb plugin. I found that a good algorithm already existed in the Freeverb3 library, but it didn't have a native Linux plugin. I thought "how hard could it be? I could probably do this in a few weekends."

Now 18 months later I just released v2:

https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb
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The rich and politically-connected SF elite figure this'll kill the underclass faster by pushing them toward cigarettes.

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More seriously, I'm more-or-less in favor of banning e-cigarettes... if they actually bothered to ban actual cigarettes, too. The failure to pass a general nicotine ban has turned a presumably-well-intentioned piece of legislation into yet another paver on the road to Hell.

EDIT: apparently the actual laws are more nuanced than that, and while they do specifically target electronic cigarettes, that targeting is as an example of a class of product not previously considered under existing legislation. I haven't read through the full details on the relevant ordinances[1][2], but it ain't quite as simple as "SF wants to extort Juul for money"; on the surface they actually seem pretty well-reasoned.

[1]: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190311%2...

[2]: https://sfosb.org/sites/default/files/documents/SBC/190312%2...
Just an interesting aside: whenever I see Japanese articles translated, the reported speech ascribed to older Japanese interviewees often includes such language as "I'm like, 'Hey, how are you doing?'".

I wonder if that's an indicator of the translator's age. The Japanese person in question is 73, and I wouldn't expect the average 73 year old English speaker to use that sort of language. 'Like' as a substitute for 'say' seems to be more recent, generationally-speaking.

I would be curious to know what the person would have said in Japanese.
Most European countries for at least 70years
+1 to developers on HN: if your dream is to have a company with a sales team, it's great practice to get to know CRM softwares early and in-depth. Every seasoned salesperson will need a functioning CRM to do good work...and the best salespeople will get held back by a malfunctioning/nonexistent CRM.
Have you made efforts to overcome the phobia?
And sometimes, they don't even keep the talent: https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/workers-at-oracle-...