skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every day in the US 2000 children under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette.

It's important to switch those children to vaping or not smoking.

But all those other children who aren't smoking? There's almost no benefit to them from vaping, and there are disadvantages and risks. Vaping costs money, it's potentially addictive, some of the flavours can be harmful, the devices can be low quality and catch fire etc. These might be small quantities of risk, but across a population of 350m people it adds up to a bunch of people harmed for no benefit.
At one point in time and at one location. At different places in the US, 1 USD can purchase more or less. So on the internet, the purchasing power of the dollar is fairly nebulous. So, I agree, but with more nitpickiness.
So the new guy is just watching the reviewer? That sounds neither productive, nor an efficient way to get familiar with the project.
I don’t see the evidence that most of the country hasn’t recovered in real estate prices. It seems like the median price is well above what it was at its peak before 2008.
Can’t wait to read some reviews on this thing, sounds like exactly what I’m looking for.
I don't know if Sprint would survive if not for the T-Mobile acquisition. They have a lot of debt. I think the most these states will get is some restrictions on T-Mobile.
>if you have a tattoo I have no problem with that.

You literally said there were 2 problems, even using the word problem, with having tattoos in your previous paragraph. It's ok to have an opinion, you don't have to add in this shit to try and make people feel better or to make you seem worldly, open, or woke.
> All they have to do is ask, and you better not lie.

because asking everyone how much they have in offshore tax havens is working so well.

heck, not even when the information is given to the IRS anything happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#United_States
Pretty decent specs for the price, but unfortunately it appears that they've stuck with the same bizarre keyboard layout as the older iterations of the Pinebook- take a look at where they map out the slashes and double-quote! The layout of the physical keys would make it tricky to remap them to something more familiar.
CBD is great... as long as you can trust/verify what you're getting.

Personally, I buy 100% CBD isolate from a reputable mfgr that proves their product's purity with a mass spec plot. Then, I add it to a high oleic food-grade oil to make a sublingual tincture of known dosage. Rubbing a tiny amount of CBD on the skin is purely placebo effect, and such products should be banned because they're fraudulent.
If it's a store of value, then the value of that value can go up and down relative to the rest of the economy. Just like gold does.

(Money supply is not the only factor in price level, despite what everyone seems to think in crypto space)
For the millennial generation, dogs are actually the new kids in advertising - but you can't strap a VR headset onto a dog
A bit late... but as others have pointed out:

This only works to the first order. If you have functions-that-call-functions-that-call-functions, you end up not being able to write(!) the correct throws clauses in Java.
Direct links:

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

https://store.pine64.org/?product=14-pinebook-pro-linux-lapt...
The bitcoin / crptyo currency... ethos? (not sure what word to use there) seems to continuously collide into the reality of living in a society.

That doesn't make them incompatible, but it does perhaps provide some lessons for everyone on why financial systems are the way they are as it is, and how you can't just jump on a technology and escape.

At the very least it has all been an interesting thing to learn from.
Articles like this come dangerously close to insanity with respect to their reflection of the truth.

I hear people say: "They make such sweet, fruity flavors to appeal to kids." Uh; what? Have you tried Juul Mango pods? (No, you haven't. Yet you write about it.) They aren't sweet. They aren't fruity. They're basically just north enough of disgusting to be palatable. They taste like what I imagine six year old freeze-dried astronaut food mangos steeped in embalming fluid would taste like.

I hear people say: "These nicotine addictions are so bad, they're so hard to quit." Uh; what? Have you ever had a nicotine addiction? (No, you haven't. Yet you write about it.) Not cigarettes; tobacco has additional MAOI chemicals which make the addiction substantially worse. I'm talking about pure nicotine. I'd grade quitting it as 25% worse than a caffeine addiction. I'd imagine it's worse for developing brains (which is why all nicotine should be 21+ at least). But it's not like we're talking about meth here.

I hear people say: "Juul is to blame for this." Shut the fuck up. Your kid illegally obtained a nicotine delivery device and is somehow illegally keeping it topped up with pods. The audacity that you have to sue Juul for this is, quite frankly, astounding. He may be going through 3 or 4 pods a week, maybe more; how the hell is he getting these? That's on you, first and foremost, as the parent. Secondly, and strictly secondly, there is an onus on society to make sure distribution of these chemicals is regulated and enforced. We've got some work to continue doing here, but let's be clear: getting rid of the "sweet" and "delicious" fruit flavors won't help even a little bit.
MacWrite Pro was also released in 1992 and its UI was streets ahead of Word 5.1’s. Unfortunately its performance was laggy and, even by then, Word was so much the incumbent that it was hard to compete. But I loved MWP.
No change is just one change; it's a set of changes.

No set of changes is strictly better for strictly every user.

"For the better" is often just better for that user who happens to be the developer.
I agree with you in general. However, my specific experience with this comes from working at one of those massive tech companies. And there are definitely orgs within the company that fall under the "MBA-types-running-the-show" umbrella, but, I think, I just got very lucky with my org.
This is helpful. Thank you. The whole thing is a little odd to me. I'm used to thinking about paying taxes on marginal increase in value, and I had never considered that to be defined exclusively in dollars. I suppose it is. If I buy for $10 and sell for $20, I pay taxes on $10 even if the value of the dollar dropped by half in the intervening period.
I got mine when I was 19, I haven't for a moment regretted it (20 years later) as it serves as both an anchor point in time and maturity, these days I wouldn't get a tattoo* but young me absolutely would, in that sense it's a visible reminder that I grow.

* - The one thing I'd consider is "Vincit qui patitur" across my back over my spine - it translates as "he conquers who endures" and given my spine is trying to kill me it seems apropos.
"Easy" to aim and click may be a stretch... I have only ever tried the Vive's implementation before but it felt a lot like holding a laser pointer - basically impossible to get any precision because your hand vibrates so much in ways you don't realize.
There's a whole world of thought on this. Check out some of Aubrey de Grey's work for starters.
They've even got flexible payment options ^_^ some of which are mandatory.
SV has other signals that it values
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relati...

For example, we have a whole brain model of rest state dynamics that can represent aspects of data (eg graph metrics such as degree) from multiple sclerosis patients, distinctly from healthy controls. Here, the map is the model parameters, and the territory is the patient's actual brain. The map is deemed useful if its structure represents that of the territory.
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Hmmm, given that the USDA is talking about crop yields falling 80% due to climate change, you'd think it's relevant...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/usda-report-sees-dire-climate-c...

> Midwest farmers are being punished by adverse weather this year. Extremely wet weather this spring left many unable to fully plant their crops, and now summertime heat could kill a sizable portion of the plants that managed to sprout. The USDA is still determining how many acres will be left unplanted as a result of this year’s tough weather, but estimates place unplanted acres as high as 15 million for corn—well above the 2013 record of 3.6 million corn acres.

> Grain prices have risen since weather problems during the planting season began to surface in May. Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade have risen 16% since May 1, while soybean futures are up 3%. According to Mr. Crane-Droesch, the models used by the ERS show that farmers are in for more difficult springs as climate change gets more severe.
> ...we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.
-- Bill Gates (1995)
Why do you say that?

Hiring people is very expensive. Finding and qualifying leads, creating job description, interviewing, on boarding, orientation, training, introduction to and getting familiar with the existing code base. Firing requires distributing that team member's work to other team members.

This can take months and a big investment from existing team members, to go from wanting to hire someone to a fully productive team member. And that's assuming your hiring process never accidentally hires someone even more incompetent than your "poor" team members.

Compare that to investing in improving existing team members to help them improve. Is that really more expensive than hiring and firing?
https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/
Then you might also want to check out BadgerDB. I can't say which is better, but I know that both are popular and in production use, so probably each with their pros and cons (e.g. read vs. write speed).
You can remember music like that too. Take any song you've listened to many times - I'm pretty sure if someone changed one note, or one word, you'd notice immediately.

Of course, actually playing those notes while you remember them is harder...
If the USD you own becomes more valuable, then the same nominal amount you're paying will also be a bigger payment in real terms.
US Antitrust law is among its most archaic, even though they are relatively young. Even the term Trust speaks to an a term that is no longer in common parlance. As there is discussion about 'breaking up' Facebook and others, the murkiness of the law is painfully clear.

They should be referred to as competition laws, and they should be plainly understood and work at preventing and penalizing anti-competitive behavior. De facto digital monopolies have emerged as they have been freely allowed to act against their competition in ways that would have never been tolerated in meatspace.
> to use of crypto for its intended purpose

Its intended purpose is debatable. Certainly this is an impediment to using it as a currency, or day to day spending money vs long term store of value, like gold, which also requires paying capital gains taxes.
You think owners should have no control over what they own?
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Hey! I'm the author of the post. I just updated it with a chart showing the gains. Roughly, I'd say about 40% decrease in CPU usage. One note I'd like to add is that the original Python code was highly optimized, and we haven't yet done a performance pass of the new Golang code. We're expecting even better gains after that's complete.
Yeah, capital gains are not adjusted for purchasing power parity within a country otherwise it'd be difficult to do business in both high and low PPP regions like SF vs the midwest.
i remember the wow what am i gonna do with all that storage feeling ! and the way we used them as currency too...
IRS Has Begun Sending Letters to Virtual Currency Owners
If you think sci-fi is not a good predictor for the near future, just post it as a statement, not a rhetorical question. I agree with you, though, that RPO is not meant to be realistic in any way and a bad example, but the way you generalized it to all of sci-fi makes it also not very helpful. Try The Martian from Andy Weir, or some of Daniel Suarez' books like Kill Decision. There is some scary realistic sci-fi out there.
yeah, people don't realize that not everyone knows everything already
Offshore tax havens don't turn over their records to the IRS

US based coin exchanges like Coinbase do
Using libraries is such a pain in C++ compared to other languages that people choose worse libraries just because they come header-only. I don't understand why that is not a higher priority. Cargo is lightyears ahead of any C++ system.
That you pay taxes on capital gains. There are also taxes on dividend income in the case of stocks.
I don't care, my laptop has 32GB my desktops more.

So in a relative sense Cinnamon is vastly more efficient as percentage of system memory used.
Users flag articles. We don't always know why they flag them, but in this case I'd guess that it's a combination of the topic having been covered a great deal already and the articles not adding significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). That means there isn't much intellectual curiosity in them, and intellectual curiosity is the purpose of this site.

Political articles are a borderline area for HN. There is inevitably some political overlap in what gets posted here. At the same time, if we don't do anything to contain them, political topics and battles and flamewars will take over the site completely. We moderate the site to prevent this from happening. One criterion we apply about political topics is whether the thread will merely be a repetition of what has been discussed before or whether there is a chance that the community can have a curiosity-inspired conversation about it. If a discussion turns into a flamewar or is extremely likely to, we are particularly likely to downweight it, because flamewars are the #1 thing that destroy this site and community.

There's more explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092 and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you or anyone want it.
All cryptocurrencies get treated the same, regardless of whether a transaction takes 10 minutes or 10 milliseconds.
I'm almost tempted, been eyeing a chromebook for low power lightweight work.
haha, I checked my source and I had the units wrong so I was off by a factor of 1000. Looks like 8x GTX1080s can do almost 3 billion SHA256 hashes per second, so you could just brute force these with no table with the right hardware.
That’s not at all true of the Adobe stuff. The real work in Photoshop or Illustrator still happens on the Mac.
This is a question I don't know. And I was wondering if HN could shed some light on this.

The IRS treats bitcoin as an investment property. What happens when one trades investment property for a car, or a boat, say?
It make sense in cases where people get rich overnight (vested options, bitcoin gains or what nots) and they already spent a huge chunk of that income without setting aside for tax. If that is the case, they will soon realize they need a sizable portion of that overnight gain to pay tax soon.
> It worked well for a while. […] And with App Stores basically stealing 30% of all your sales …

I’ve never understood that argument. Physical media production, packaging and shelf space was way more expensive than 30%. Not trying to justify the Apple’s Premium here, just pointing out that it’s a lot cheaper than physical retail used to be.

> I kept using Photoshop because its just a better software...

In some ways it is, in others it is not.
Hacker News is for more than what is "tech or startup related". This is at the very beginning of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What the hell? I use @ and " all day! I'd love to hear the reasoning behind swapping the two
If you do, how do you figure out if the investment appreciated or depreciated?

I mean, if I use BTC as a currency to buy things, I don't understand how I would evaluate every purchase at the end of the year to figure out whether I owe capital gains.
You report the value of the gain at time of taxable event. Trading crypto for other crypto, or fiat, or buying real goods with it.... are taxable events. The capital gain is the appreciation in value at time of transacting.
This seems pretty cool. All I'm missing is an estimate of the possible battery life.
For such corner cases using MASM on day 1 until the new VC++ release isn't much of an issue.
It's a nice idea. One possible implementation could use a Unix domain socket to communicate between client and server. Or even regular sockets to support network transparency. We can call the server X and after eleven versions end up where we are already.

X11 and wide idea of terminals go in hand. It's a problem of abstraction and platforms evolving. So I think, that you either end up with something like Web front-ends of today or something more structured, but far simpler like various TUIs or maybe Tcl/Tk with it's windowing shell wish. I think that some middle ground is possible, but hard and shifting quite fast.
So how does BitCoin Cash distribution get handled in USA?

Is it like a dividend? A stock split? A spin-off?

What about all of these airdropped tokens? Are they dividends, with tax payable even if you didn’t “collect” them in some way? Or splits?

Can you deduct the Day1 value of the new token from the capital gain on the first token? Or do you assume the cost of the new token was $0 and any sale is a total capital gain?
10Ah * 3.7V = 37Wh
> They currently pay good salaries in line with the market.

> There's no way they can justify giving a person who's been with the company for 10 years 4x salary growth in 2 years.

One of these must be false. According to "the market", this employee is now worth 4x previous salary, so then how can your company be paying "in line with the market?"
That is on topic because it clearly gratifies intellectual curiosity.
Reprogrammable Electro-Optic Nonlinear Activations for Optical Neural Networks
Ah yes. And Borland Pascal. Mode X VGA hackery in unreal mode. Later, when I worked for a software store in high school, I acquired Borland C++ 3.1, the physically-largest and heaviest (27 lbs / 12.2 kg) retail software package that I know of. It was a small software shop, they gave us crazy discounts, vendors gave us NFRs and they let us borrow anything on the shelf (trusty-dusty shrinkwrap machine). The profiler, debugger, and assembler were also good as there were protected-mode variants that could sometimes keep the machine from crashing.
I like the jetbrains model. You can always stop paying whenever you want and you get to own whatever last version you hold.
The difference is that those articles you've mentioned are not pushing a political agenda. You are pushing a political agenda. Not only is this not HN's use-case, but there is nothing here to discuss that hasn't already been discussed to death. What kind of intellectually stimulating discussion do you think will arise from a submission like this?

If you really want mass exposure for your political crusade, there's Reddit for that. You'll receive 1000x the eyeballs, all the accolades, upvotes and Reddit Gold that you desire along with a nice echo-chamber of predictably inane comments.
I’m not an accountant, but based on what I know about stocks you would get taxed on you financial gains (if any) based on the market value of the bitcoin at the time you trade it for the car.
It's not just English. :(
It looks like the UK layout to me. I remember the @ being in a weird place. I'll probably just change the sw layout to US. I already do the same with German keyboards.
Yes, I want to know this too! Would be fun to come watch you!
A good day for diabetic mice!
Sez you...

https://youtu.be/ZqCOeECBfR8
The edge case would be a someone using these techniques on, say, an attractive woman three seats down on the train.

In addition, one (hypothetically) could use iOS state awareness in conjunction with other attack vectors to gain access: i.e., we have an attack vector to gain remote access, but it only works if the target device is unlocked.
Great comment!

> Classical music played and recorded correctly will use some intensity cues rarely used by modern music like dynamic range.

A little context here. People sometimes make value judgements that classic music (or recordings of) is "better" because it uses a greater dynamic range.

The reason popular music uses less dynamic range is because we listen to it in noisier environments. Classical music is intended to be listened to in quiet rooms with a lower noise floor. There, even when the music gets very quiet, you can still hear it. Popular music is designed to be enjoyable in a car, at a party, while banging pots and pans and cooking dinner, through earbuds on the subway. In those environments, if the song gets quiet, it gets completely drowned out by the ambient noise. So producers compress the dynamic range by making the quiet parts louder. That way you can always hear it.

But, if you push the low dynamics up above the noise floor, by definition, you have reduced the dynamic range.

> is that it mostly dates from a pre-recording period, so it tends to draw out all of its ideas because it expects the listener can't just rewind and listen to the last few minutes again

I think the other half of this is that when you rely on the brains of human performers as your storage device, repetition becomes a lot more valuable. It's much easier for a group of performers to play an hour of music if that's six ten-minute repetitive pieces than if it's twelve distinct five-minute works, each with its own melodies, motifs, etc. The former just compresses into less data in the brain.

> modern trance artists know the modern music playback setups and handle it differently, even if I couldn't exactly describe it.

A big part of how dance music "works" is that it uses a lot of timbral variation throughout a song. So even though it may be the same melody you heard earlier, the sound itself will be different. Classical music does this by changing dynamics and rhythm. But, to be danceable, those need to be fixed. So, instead, dance music changes the tone itself, which is easy to do since the sounds are synthesized. This is why you have all of these filter sweeps, LFOs, etc. going on.
That keyboard is an ISO standard. Their recent blog articles have indicated they will be offering an ANSI layout[1] once they find appropriate hardware.

1:https://www.pine64.org/2019/06/06/june-2019-news-pinephone-p...
For what it's worth, Gemini doesn't report everything to the IRS. This is the response I got from them when I asked last year:

"Gemini is required to report gross proceeds paid to US customers from bitcoin or ether sales on the Gemini exchange on IRS Forms 1099-K when applicable reporting thresholds are met. Typically, Form 1099-K reporting will be required by Gemini where the number of bitcoin or ether sales transactions on the exchange exceeds 200 transactions per year AND the total sales proceeds from all sales transactions exceeds $20,000 per year."
Water doesn't just disappear when plants take it up by the roots.
> but you can't strap a VR headset onto a dog

I think that means you just haven't tried hard enough. I know for a fact an advert of a dog with a vr set strapped on would get my attention
Killing the opposing party through abortion would be a negative effect.