skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, that's right. But I'm too cautious to make claims that I haven't researched, or hasn't been researched.

I'd like to see some more concrete studies and maybe even safer product designs. Juul itself is a predatory but brilliant product. It's simple and therefore hard to fuck up. Meanwhile my early misadventures into e-cigarettes wasn't very healthy (burning coils, etc). Thankfully I learned over time.
Is this how they avoid paying huge taxes to the Government by taking on additional debt?
1. i thought the idea of banning something died with the "war on drugs".

2. alcohol and coffee are addictive substances.
88k people die from alcohol every year:
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

3. how about cars? 37k people die from cars every year (not including pollution-related diseases): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
We do the same thing in the UK, with explicit images of diseased lungs, eyes etc.

Taxes have also escalated year on year, so it now costs around £12.50 (~$15) for a pack of 20 cigarettes - I guess this has cut smoking rates more than the graphic imagery.
> having sex in their cars.

In all these stories this outrage pops up!

It none of his business to start with, but I doubt this is a real problem. It's a normal lower garbage gossip that's almost never commonly true. Did he see it?

Lends to him making this up when he's following the normal outrage script.

That said moderation of media is a problem, it's a catch 22, to remove content society doesn't like humans HAVE to see it, we don't have magical alien technology that can sort it out automatically yet. It will take a toll.

But people need to make up their minds, moderators are paid to remove content or it stays.
I think you should click the link. This is not what you were using in the early 2000s :)
Which is the best self help book you've ever read?
You do not need math but do need quite a bit of time. I suggest some DRM-free builder alternatives at the end of my long comment above, but even most of those need quite a bit of time and all much less than KSP. I'm not sure builder games in general are the best option on limited time, but maybe you are much faster than me :).
Maybe the missing key component is the role of architecture in providing a platform for performance ;)
China's all-weather partner, Pakistan, has been doing similar information warfare against India regarding Kashmir after abrogation of article 370 on Aug5.

"We have found that just after the annulment of Article 370, more than 1,500 bots (fake profiles) from Pakistan surfaced on social media and started trending anti-India narrative. In these tweets, they are also urging United Nations to intervene," said Tarun Vig, co-founder of Innefu Labs, a cybersecurity firm.
He added on August 5 alone, more than 1,000 Twitter accounts were created from Pakistan which was discussing India and Kashmir. Bot profiles were sharing the same tweets over and over again.

0: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/pakistan-bots-wage-...

Some fake videos:
https://www.altnews.in/pak-minister-shares-edited-clip-to-fa...
https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/kashmir-massacre-...
https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/isi-ba...

Some twitter action: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/check-our-transpar...
The Marché de la Condamine: a stage for social life in Monaco
fact: cars kill people indirectly via fumes.

so i'd rephrase your idea:

"Got lungs? Maybe avoid <living on planet earth>"
I'm interested as well...
Note that I said "the EU administration", not "the EU".
Bitmovin (YC S15) Hires a Product Manager for Video Players
Is it a pure hobby project on the side, or do you work for a company / research lab ? That is really interesting btw.
Space tugs have been a topic of research for quite a while in the space community. A number of companies targeting the in-space space transport market over the last few years, e.g., [1][2]. There's also a recent YC alum targeting this [3].

Propulsion is itself a really hot topic in the NewSpace market the moment, ranging from tiny thrusters for precision attitude control of smallsats, to large systems for orbital transport. We recently published a review of smallsat thrusters, highlighting the rich spectrum of solutions being brought to market [4] (Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders at satsearch).

There's a lot of systems innovation that enabling fuel-efficient solutions to be developed. Particularly, there's a lot of progress being made on developing high-efficient electric propulsion. One of the trending areas is water-based propulsion, given that it's clean, non-toxic, storable, and also abundantly available in the Solar System [5].

With companies also look at building fuel depots to refuel spacecraft on orbit [6], there's a wide array of new solutions that are going to emerge for repeat use of tugs.

The traditional GEO market went through a massive dip last year [7], but there's renewed interest with the real prospect of small GEO missions materializing in the next 24 months. Another YC alum is targeting this market [8].

So in short, this is a really dynamic sector, going through a lot of changes at the moment. I'm eager to learn more about Epic, to see where they're carving a niche for themselves. Also, interesting to see YC's continuity in funding hardtech space startups.

[1] https://spacenews.com/airbus-to-challenge-ssl-orbital-atk-wi...

[2] https://www.atomosspace.com/

[3] https://momentus.space/rides/

[4] https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-07-10-cubesat-thrusters-an-ov...

[5] https://www.thespaceresource.com/news/2019/2/propelling-dema...

[6] https://www.orbitfab.space/

[7] https://spacenews.com/amid-geo-downturn-launch-operators-loo...

[8] https://www.astranis.com/
But if you ignore the performance aspects of architecture and build, by the time you try to meet performance specs it is likely too late.
"a buck at the expense of people's lives working for them"

their employees? any source?
Well yeah, the market is still expanding rapidly. That doesn't mean the value to each individual customer isn't diminishing.
Eight new repeating fast radio bursts discovered
Tobacco industry has not changed.

In the old good times British American Tobacco had a plan to start selling candies with nicotine so that they would get children hooked before they can smoke. They had to abandon the plan because sometimes children eat so much candy that they would get overdose and nicotine poisoning.
New Exploit to 'Hack Android Phones Remotely' Threatens Millions of Devices
Also the wild haggis (Haggis scoticus) which notably comes in two different sub-species - clockwise and anti-clockwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_haggis
> anecdotally people seem to think of Amazon and Hulu content as better-quality on average than Netflix.

That doesn't match up with my anecdotal observations at all. I know many people who subscribe to and enjoy Netflix, a handful of people who watch content off Amazon because they're getting it for "free" with the Prime subscription, and zero people with Hulu.
i think you haven't research the problem at all.

banning never works. no circumstance makes banning stuff acceptable. you can however limit access. otherwise you're just exploiting your own fears to drive people into doing your bidding.
The rise of the architect in data centre design
I realize this is an unpopular opinion but I really think it's management's job to buffer our failures (or even better, avoid them upfront by making me work on things that likely succeed) and share the fruits of our success with me. And in that way, a stable salary isn't fair.

Of course it doesn't work like that, unfortunately.
The world may be voxel-based, but objects in Minecraft still move in a Newtonish fashion.
Computers do not do mathematics. Rather, they compute a set of rules we give them, which may or may not be consistent. It is up to the programmer to give them rules that are consistent and correspond to some abstract mathematical concept. However, the computational rules themselves are not mathematics.

I am not sure what does the thinking, but whatever it is, it cannot be the brain if thinking consists of uncomputable and non physical faculties.
There's plenty evidence, from internal emails calling "nazis" to some conservatives to presentations, hidden camera to a high level manager, etc. PrageU, some conservative voices are banned, and there are specific guidelines designed by them to ban them and shadow ban them. It is not news that Twitter, Facebook and Google shadowbans or directly demonetize or ban conservative voices.
Right, because AWS isn’t part of a $900 billion market cap retail behemoth that can weather loses and no profits.
By course-grained I mean 0.5-1 km; which is very inaccurate compared to GPS accuracy (and isn't sufficient to tell which shop you're visiting, which has commercial value in sale of location data) but is accurate enough to tell which side of the border you're on, or which mall you're visiting, or when you're home or at work and when somewhere else.
I'm proposing the mind is non physical and interacts with the physical brain, analogous to a signal and antenna.
no Spain in the dropdown? :O :((
I believe you do have to be the author to add "Show HN". Show HN indicates that the maker is present in the thread. If we lose this distinction, Show HN becomes quite meaningless as a prefix.
"a product that's strictly worse that the vaping options that came before it."

this is false. the Juul product is a 3rd iteration of a long line of vaping innovations. Juul was far ahead of their competitors when they launched: small, practical, easy to use, great nicotine hit. they're so far ahead that most of their competitors now use the Juul model of selling a compact vape along with pre-filled pods.
What kind of safety threshold do you require?

Acute, chronic, cancer studies, Alzheimer's links?
Comparison vs bad dental hygiene in the above?
What is the reference group you propose?

How much would you pay for this relatively superb level of detail? (Which is on par with 50+ years of longitudinal and cross sectional studies. About 1 billion USD.)
I have one in WoW, they gave it to me for doing the brewfest quests.
> an audience that both uses SQL frequently and also couldn't use a git repo.

I think you might be surprised. SQL is used a lot in businesses by non-programmers. It's embedded in all sorts of enterprise software, including SME stuff like Salesforce.

"Can't" is a strong word. Maybe they could use git, but most don't.
I do recognise spdf and the orbitals, I didn't realise the clouds interacted (well duh!), and that's the clearest description of pi and sigma bonds I've come across. That was brilliant, thanks!
Uhm.. there was this show, Revolution.. Just sayin' :D.
I was thinking use KSP to "drive" objects in Minecraft... not that I'd do it, but I could imagine some twisted soul. :-)
Brotli vs. Gzip Compression. How we improved our latency by 37%
they must all feel good about themselves now as they return to business as usual the very next day
> You put "improve" in quotes as if instant page navigation without flickering is somehow worse than the alternative.

Yes, instant page navigation without flickering is better than the alternative - instant being what you get from reloading a static HTML page, alternative being React.

Seriously, fetching, parsing and displaying a tiny bit of HTML is fast. As fast or faster than the React virtual DOM shenanigans, once you account for the computational load the framework adds on top of your simple page.
I'm not saying you're completely wrong. Is that a factor? Yes. Is it fair to blame farmers for the wildfire problems in southern europe? No.
That's interesting. We have something similar in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahu
That’s oversimplifying it. Knuth was writing about micro-optimizations, like writing a section of code in assembly language to shave off some milliseconds from a critical section of code.

What many people today mean by optimization is a far cry from that.

Here’s a real-life example. Some code was super-slow and nobody could figure out why. It took only a minute to see the code was passing a string (in C++) by value, causing unnecessary copy construction and destruction (in a tight loop, to boot).

Writing that code by passing a const reference in the first place is Good Coding 101, but many people might consider that “premature optimization”.
Greenland barely has soil.
Take a look at the bed of a former glacier, and count the trees.
The full value? GS was huge even before the IPO no individual could ever expect to buy the value of their share surly?
As cloud becomes the default for small to mid scale computing, storage and networking, the patience for hiccups due to roll your own solutions falls as well.
Compare with average ingestion of fluoride salts from toothpaste.
(Nobody precisely rinses teeth after applying it.)
There is nothing here close to sign language translation. Hand gesture are a very small and quite easy part of sign language who involve all the upper part of the body and face and use a lot of context and placement in space.
Well I dont know seeing how someone sent a link with all your members contacts and hidden links to multiple codes. If theres an admin or anyone who would like to see the "live" spread sheet let me know.You can reach me at rblack0814@gmail or blackr6770@gmail. Theres live email addresses of most of the people on herrle and have not a clue who any of you are. Ive been maliciosly hacked by developers now for two years and not just me but my kids also.
Totally disagree. People like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, etc were brilliant men. They were evil, but they were brilliant. Ted Kazcynski and many other criminals are also considered brilliant.
Moodle is the project you're looking for. It's actually really good, my university uses it
Bad use of money, certainly in the UK mortgages are cheaper per month than renting and that's not counting the value of the asset..
A lot of terror attacks where perpetrated by people claiming to be from ISIS, even without being from the Iraqi/Syrian region. For example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIL-related_terror_attacks_in...
But this is Scala native we’re talking here. No JVM.
"Where does it end" arguments are the kind of "winning" internet argument I hate seeing [0].

There's a lot to be said to building up your business in an environment that is a liberal democracy with free movement of ideas, commerce, and people. And then protecting those principles from those that hijack such liberties to promote illiberal ideas.

An existing (but old and outdated, badly needing reform) legal construct exists: Title 2 protections (being pipes). Only, no one wants to be Title 2 (not even Verizon, Sprint, Comcast) because all the money is in non-Title 2 (content).

Sounds like you may be interested in Title 1 and 2 overhaul.

[0] (satire) https://cjslep.com/c/blog/winning-internet-arguments
Designer here, former UX for 12 years. The main problem with designers and bad UXers is they rarely work on organizations with budget for UX. UX is usually lend to 3rd parties to work on specifics. Internal staff barely did a proper qualitative process and they barely do quantitative studies. They just rush and appeal to experience or articles in internet.

Internet is full of articles that are just opionated gardens. That's why I dislike UX articles that don't provide any source of data or evidence.

Last time an UX expert answered me on an article he wrote was these lines: "If it's between my experience versus your zero experience, most will go with the guy who has some experience."

This is and it was since the beginning the mindset of most (but not all) UXers. They hide behind on artcicles, studies that can be disputed and appeal to experience. The best UXer for me are those who shared real studies and data, explained the methods, etc.
10 Eclipse plugins you shouldn’t code without
AWS will charge for the static IP whilst the Minecraft server is down.
Could tweaking the profit function result in a better alignment? For example, issue a fine for every confirmed sale that reached someone in the wrong age group. Upon the return of the unused product direct the proceeds of the fine back to the person that made the purchase.
If they're so concerned about peoples' privacy, perhaps they could disable their own non-aggregated, individually recorded, indefinitely-retained, fine-grained, timestamped GPS data collection?

Of course, their definition of 'privacy' is 'making sure nobody but Google gets your data' so they wouldn't see any need to do so.
I am interested in producing music but is there any book which can you teach you from scratch.
Originally it was C and used GTK+, but cross platform needs drove it to Qt and thus C++. And CMake is the most popular cross-platform C/C++ (meta) build tool, so no surprise there.
Interesting , one of the reasons GCHQ moved to Bletchley Park in WW2 was it was very conveniently placed in terms of the GPO network at the time.
The VPN blocks HN, not the other way round
So basically you're a success case for their predatory practices and you don't even realize it.
It seems to work fine under umatrix set to "kill everything but first-party images and css".
The compiler will detect any attempt at taking the address of the variable (including fancy things like most inline assembly) and skip the optimization, marking it as requiring a memory location.

However, it can still cheat by rearranging the memory write or even letting linker initialize the address.
> So I guess one could ask, why should it be any different in software?

Since the software world does not generally work this way, we could also ask why the architect/brick layer model should be applied in this world. The decider/implementer model might be a common organizing principle in other industries; that does not mean that it's useful to software.

Brick layers cannot manipulate more than small chunks of a building at a time. Software engineers in contrast can perform the equivalent of turning the Empire State Building on its head.

Software architecture is difficult to get right and too important to leave to one or two senior folks who may or may not have the insight required to make the right decisions.
From a public health perspective, I think Juul/vape products would be extremely helpful in a place like India.
From chat rooms to chat software to chatbots: the rise of instant messaging
It's probably not even money: it's just a reprinted press release. Once you know the style, it becomes obvious just how many articles everywhere about a new development from company X are just prints of company X's press release with some mild rewording.

It's mostly harmless; companies need to be able to announce products somewhere.
Google doesn't use GCP for its major applications. Neither should you.
> there is no sign that civil liberties are anywhere on the horizon

The main question is probably what time frame that horizon is. It's hard to predict the future, very, very few people in 1985 (or even in '88) believed the SU would collapse, and yet it did a short time later. "The Chinese are destroying their environment" was a meme, now they are somewhere at the top regarding new sustainable energy installed, and they are fighting pollution (Beijing is in the situation Los Angeles was a few decades ago).

> People were fighting for democracy as a response to totalitarian systems which did not provide them with the resources and security they wanted

That's what I'm trying to say. People want stuff, and a mostly capitalist, mostly democratic society is good at providing stuff for a large majority of the population. If it wasn't, people would care very little for democracy. Throw us into a hard and long recession and offer a (to the majority of the population) plausible way out via authoritarian measures and, so I believe, you'll be surprised how quickly they'll agree to abandon democracy. Democracy is to most (or to all? a different argument is mostly made by the affluent, and they never need to choose) a means to an end, not an end in itself. The CCP is currently still ranking very favorably compared to "before CCP" with regards to providing stuff. If that changes, or people believe that democracy could provide significantly more with few trade-offs, I expect the general sentiment to change. (Pro tip: want to fuel desire for democracies around the world? Make sure all/most citizens in Western democracies massively profit continuously from the democratic system, not just a minority at the top)

Given that civil liberties often follow wealth (it's easy to be generous when you're rich), I don't see why that wouldn't happen in China. They're not at a Western level of wealth yet, and for a significant part of the population, poverty is still the primary concern, not civil liberties. When that has changed, so will demands of the population (though it's unlikely they will too closely follow Western values, given their culture is very different in many regards).
I currently work at Microsoft, however my work and my hobby are pretty much the same at this point so I put a lot of time into it!
One ride at a time.

The "tech advantage" is not insurmountable. These are, at the core, just apps that let users hail a ride and pay. Uber-Lyft competition has already demonstrated that ride-sharing doesn't come with an automatic moat. Both drivers and passengers are willing to use multiple apps and both respond to prices. Hence price wars.

The big problems are network effect chicken-egg problems. You need enough drivers and passengers simultaneously. But, this only needs to be solved in one locale at a time.

Uber & Lyft put all their efforts into scale, assuming that winner-take-most dynamics will fix the economics eventually. They didn't.

It's not a terrible idea to start a competitor building a low cost/fee model from day one. Flat fees for drivers might be interesting because once the fee is paid drivers have an incentive to get their money's worth.

It's not an easy win to go after, but not impossible either. Ride sharing is not an airtight market.
And I don't mean old as in obese diabetic vitamin d and iron deficient cranky old. I mean reliable old.
> Edit: it is interesting to see that a sibling comment of mine [3] on another thread on Twitter’s reaction got overwhelming upvotes, while this comment on FB’s reaction got a downvote.

Yes, it's almost as if different people -- with different opinions -- read and reacted to two comments posted 5 hours apart on separate threads.
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Then ban advertising of ANY kind for tabacco-related products. No cool kids or influencers, no flashy magazines, no outdoor ads and so on.
I think we have to separate two things here.

a, array programming concepts

b, apl like syntax

I think the combination of these two makes J and co interesting. I am just not sure if the second is required. Not sure how much is lost if we use the following:

kmc =: right (step power infinity) initialise
initialise =: (left deal tally at right) from right
step =: (left groupby allocate rank 1 2) then (mean every)
allocate =: euclidean then (equal minimum) then indices then head
euclidean =: (minus then square then sum) vectors

I totally agree with you that nested loops should not be the way to express mathematical computation over matrixes. I was just curious that we need the (for me) obfuscated syntax or we can use more of the plain English version without performance differences. After reading about J more the biggest difference between J and APL is that J is restricted to ASCII characters.
Netflix has 151 million subscribers https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-...
I stayed in the Dahu hotel in Morzine and had no idea that's where the name came from! :-)
> Seems you'd like a little more oomph

Seems like a case of "high-spec dev machine" vs "example target device".