skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You claimed nicotine and caffeine are "in the same drug class", then clarified you meant GRAS, but that makes the statement false, as nicotine isn't GRAS.

I "assume otherwise" because trying to bring GRAS into the discussion about vaping at all indicates a lack of understanding of what GRAS applies to.

Contrary to your assertions, nicotine isn't "not significantly harmful": https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/vdp/2005/00000002...

> Why should nicotine and/or e-cigs be more tightly controlled than coffee, cigarettes, beef, alcohol, etc?

As linked up-thread, e-cigs appear to have slowed or halted the progress of smoking cessation efforts, and are seeing substantial uptick in teens. They're a major public health danger.

Coffee does not appear to be harmful, as we previously discussed in this comments thread. Cigarettes should be further restricted alongside e-cigs. Beef isn't addictive. Alcohol abuse is a serious problem, but societal acceptance makes it a difficult to tackle one on a practical level. Whataboutism isn't a great approach to medical issues, either.
We already have people that inhale propylene glycol and/or glycerine for 30 years: people that work in factories and hospitals.
That's fine and coherent, but we should recognize that there are two wildly different conversations happening here, because the users of this site broadly favor the notion of market economies --- if not for, like, health care, then at least things like "sign printing" --- and most of them will not read your argument in the "markets are inherently corrupt" frame you intend them.
Introducing the AI enabled cloud. Codename: “SkyNet”
Very happy with WebStorm https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
Awesome! I'm glad I stand corrected.
Neither security parity.
see my comment about overhead costs. However there are a number of interesting details: since with LEDs you can stack plants vertically, the horizontal area is less important. You can also keep things more compact (plants in a field aren't particularly dense) with light coming in at multiple angles leading to bushier plants with more growable surface area.

I guess the real question is, "what are the amortized costs of growing using solar panels and LEDs compared to fields", and that's a super hard problem to solve/estimate. So far, people have only been growing high-profit crops, so it seems like the economics don't favor interior growing yet even for well-heeled players.
The electoral college achieves one very useful function thats ignored by everyone calling for its abolition in favour of the popular vote: it produces a clear winner and contains the contagion of litigating and delegitimizing the outcome of an election.

Think about this: there are a number of elections that have a very small popular vote margin. What if this gets less than, say, 20,000? That's entirely possible. In a strictly popular vote election, what's to stop each side from scrounging up votes or invalidating votes in every county in the country?

The most contentious and litigated election is probably the 2000 election. The electoral college contained those shenanigans to Florida alone (and largely to Miami-Dade and Broward countries, specifically).

There are four main problems with the US election system as I see it:

1. Voting needs to be mandatory. Americans who love "freedom" chafe against this but optional voting undermines democracy. You can see this in the organized efforts to suppress voting and disqualify voters by US political parties.

2. The US needs preferential voting. Third-party votes are otherwise largely a waste.

3. Paper ballots with optical recognition only. No punch cards, certainly no electronic voting. You need the paper trail of actual ballots. This could be filling in a ballot and validating it with a machine or using a machine to print out a ballot. These have an exceptionally low error rate.

4. Stop politicizing the election process. Like, why is the supervisor for elections an elected political position? This is the case in Florida, for example. Likewise, you have the Senate majority holding up election reform because of there is suspicion this will help the Democrats in the House who passed it. Seriously, Mitch McConnell needs to go to jail.

5. I'm fine with states being represented in the US system. The problem is that this system was designed at a time when populations were rural and cities were small. I don't think anyone predicted the disparity between ~40M people in California and ~150k people in Vermont having 2 Senators each.

You'll note that none of these are having the popular vote. IMHO that's fixing the wrong problem.
> should they be drummed out of science and/or society?

That's certainly an interesting philosophical and moral question. Personally I'm not sure where I would draw that line. I am, however, pretty comfortable saying that education institutions accepting money from people who admitted to sex crimes against minors is on the "nope" side of the line.
Nothing you said provides an argument against equally weighting each citizen’s vote at the federal level.

States have select powers over the federal government that are specifically provided by our Constitution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights. When you vote in local elections, you are in effect in control of certain outcomes within your state, as accorded by our Constitution.

The federal election determines representation for every single person in the United States and, in part, how federal governmental power is exercised on their behalf. There is no conceivable logical reason why citizens in any particular state should have more or less say in such matters than those in any other. The electoral college system is an absolute sham that deprives a significant number of people of their Constitutionally-guaranteed right to fair representation at the federal level.

I’d welcome any well-formed argument to the contrary. I’ve yet to ever hear one.
I agree. I think the fact that these aren't discussion points is important. Steps could be taken to ensure that everyone entitled to a card gets one but I suspect there is a significant cost associated with that. So far cost hasn't really been a big part of the discussion.

As an aside, in the US, there's a history of not needing papers to get around or prove who you are. My grandfather fought in World War II and this was an important issue for him. There likely are people in the US opposed to a national ID card for similar reasons, fear that police will start demanding you carry your card at all times. I have no idea if they might be numerous or not.
The only reason he wouldn't have had anything unsavory to suspect of Epstein would be that he lived under a rock. Epstein's "unsavory" predilections were known for about five years (he was convicted in 2008) at the time that Ito started associating with him.
Well, is obvious I'm talking about a personal anecdote. Did I cite any investigation?

For the family of that girl and her close circle that is the image they have of the vaccine. I'm not saying the vaccine cause paralisis. I'm saying that for her it was the cause, they still don't have another explanation (no gillan-barre, nor wierd infection). Thats why in Colombia just a few people will allow to get that vaccine, out there you will find few cases like the one of my friend, but enough to make most woman reject its aplication.

Its just a view from that population perspective and why it impacts on the acceptance of the drug.
Java would work ok with AOT compilation. The major thing missing for running Java and many other languages on WASM would be garbage collection.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
> But the House hasn't reapportioned representation by population in a century.

The House reapportions by population after each census (10 years), with the exception of the notable failure after the 1920 Census.

The House hasn't increased total size since the reapportionment after the 1910 census, which is probably what you are thinking of.
Rehabilitation/reintegration of sex offenders after they're released from prison is a real discussion that we'll need to have as a society sooner than later, but I think we should start with the folks on probation/parole listing a walmart parking lot as their residential address because they can't find housing, not a billionaire that gets a slap on the wrist.
Can you provide any sources to back that assertion? It seems counterintuitive to me. NAFTA comes to mind as one such policy that was pretty hard on rural areas, but I’m not sure if that’s what you meant?
Besides Florida, what other states?

Also, I never even heard about this guy until a few months ago, it obviously wasn’t high enough media profile for my radar. What did his Wikipedia page look like last year?

Edit: I checked Wikipedia from 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Epstein&o... All the allegations and convictions were listed, so I’ll take back my comment and admit this was a failure of minimal due diligence (or outright not caring).
If your 02 is 68%, or even 75%, you’re likely about to be put in a coffin.
Patients with severe COPD/emphysema might have arterial oxygen levels in the mid to high 80s without supplemental oxygen
How would one achieve this on Windows short of having the entire Windows install be isolated from your main OS? I would assume most users would not want to run their games in a VM inside Windows for performance reasons.
US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported
Came here to say this. On it's face the idea of generating enough electricity to produce enough of the right wavelengths of light (including the infrastructure and bulbs) to grow vegetables is flat out fucking preposterous given the giant nuclear reaction happening right now in the sky.

Cannabis growers don't use grow lights in doors because it's more efficient. Sunlight, is the least of a farmer's worries.
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Hating on a Dr. for having a nice car is BS, but what you mention are failures of America.

Only America trains their Dr. until they’re 35, while having them do nothing towards their medical degree in their undergrad.

Only America saddles then with $500k in debt.

Remove both barriers, and presumably you’d have market forces push more ppl to the profession reducing wages.
I don't think so. You can't know just based on a plea deal, if you don't know why the deal was struck in the first place.
Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defense project
It's easy to return money or apologize after the fact. Universities are going to attempt to take any free money they can get and not worry about it until there's a proven public outcry.
Juniper tree-cutting project aims to aid sage grouse
>probably the craziest thing that the interviewers had ever heard (we didn’t have vocal flat-earthers on the Internet back then)

Talk about fake news. The moon landing hoax is up there with the JFK assassination in terms of popular conspiracies. I'm in my early 40s and the Arthur C. Clarke / Kubrick moon landing conspiracy has been omnipresent since the late 80s early and early 90s; online and in real life.
What the hell is this suppose to mean. Elucidate, because whatever this is, it sounds like a rude and subtle insult. If it is, this conversation is over.
"Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein jailed for paying underage prostitutes"

That's a sample headline from the first page of search results from the date range 2008-2013.
It's complicated on both sides means there is politics involved. Being blunt, that sounds like a cop out to me.

This sounds to me like an edge case that H1 should address if it really wants to be taken seriously.
I stand corrected. Feeling particularly silly as I’m from Colorado and probably should have known that.
Dissecting a Dweet: Parallax Mountains (Analyzing a 140 Byte JavaScript Demo)
I can't speak to your personal motivations/preferences, but the viewpoint you're espousing was pushed hard by the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies, who were (a) very highly politically motivated themselves, and (b) based on the evidence of the works they advocated for during their campaigns, manifestly failed to demonstrate that better works were being systematically discounted for award consideration.

I don't doubt that there are worthy books that never made the ballot for various reasons, and I don't doubt that there are books that don't make the ballot due to fan politics and personalities. But it was hard not to notice that it was very, very hard to get any Puppy to point to more than one of a handful of titles as "proof" of the Hugos being taken over by the Evil Liberal SJWs: the short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachael Swirsky; Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice. It was hard, in the final analysis, not to draw the parallels between the Puppies and the GamerGate crowd: one got the impression that they didn't really care how bad the case they were making was, because it was a proxy for a larger conservative culture war.

Again, I'm not necessarily ascribing any of this to you, but generally speaking the last few years of Hugo and Nebula Award winners/nominees have been both critically acclaimed and popular, with very few if any titles being stories that nobody particularly liked but just had the perception of "being important" in the way, say, it seems at least one Best Picture nominee always is ("Green Book," anyone?).
React-truth – A tiny state manager. (Yes! another one)
Do they need you to take them seriously in order to support their revenue stream?
I appreciate all the positive readings.

Maybe it’s that I’m personally more focused on downsizing than accumulating :)
I wonder how many people arguing for the abolishment of the EC would like it if India and China automatically had the most votes in whatever supranational government arises in the future and got to decide everything that happened across the world. The US is still supposed to be a federation. The EC was part of the deal the US made with smaller states to become part of the Union precisely because they were afraid of being drowned out by the big states. Don't like it? Convince the smaller states. Might not be that hard. There are plenty of dumb people in the smaller states willing to permanently consign their land to irrelevance because they don't like a President who's going to be gone in a handful of years.
Are you accusing the author of lying, or of being irresponsible for not having known about his criminal background? Either seems fairly presumptuous.

Edit: Changed "unrealistic" to "presumptuous". I certainly think it's realistic that this person I've never heard of may be immoral or irresponsible, but what I don't understand is making that accusation based only on the correlation to the simple fact of his criminal background.
I'm pretty sure he means that by being a critic on the sideline, you have a better chance of being right, but you have much worse odds of doing something great. Or said differently, if you never try, you never fail, but you also never succeed. I don't think that's an inappropriate response to someone who's saying "3/4 of these ideas suck".

And no, what the person he's responding to is saying aren't objective truths.
It wasn't just the university though. Ito also allowed Epstein to coinvest in his personal startup investments. He also visited his houses (which were decorated somewhere between provocatively and illegally based on residence). Ethan Zuckerman also directly confronted Ito and was ignored: https://medium.com/@EthanZ/on-me-and-the-media-lab-715bfc707...
> the higher the turnout, legal or not, the more power for that state

Every actual study of the matter I've seen or heard of has shown no evidence of any significant fraudulent voting, particularly not systemic fraudulent voting. While there might be a theoretical concern about incentives here, there's a lot of problems we know are happening right now with voter suppression under the system that we have.
Twitter Is a Dope Platform- a Collection of Stories and Guides
Or you're at a party? Compartmentalization is a thing, lots of people do it. Especially the people who you wonder how they do that job and stay so happy.

How many people really want to talk about work when they are are having beers with old friends and some people they just met?

And what happens as a software dev when you tell random people what you do? They want you to fix their computer for them. My hobbies don't have nearly this degree of problem. And on the flip side, you don't want to recruit people when talking about some of your interests (like volunteer work). But that's an easy habit to break when you know so intimately what being volun-told feels like.
My understanding is that it is not really useful to compare Power9 to other cpus in these types of benchmarks, that Power9 is all about computation with massive datasets, not how fast it can zip a file.
They did an ICO if I'm not mistaken
We can afford to do that, easily. Can we achieve it politically? No. Is it worth doing? No.

You can achieve the same result by not requiring an id to vote.
Why there isn't Taiwan(R.O.C) in the country list? I can't find it even in the web page source code.
Waited a couple weeks.

It was pretty low hanging fruit. I was going through an XSS tutorial and used their site for practice. `<script>alert(1)` could be saved into several user fields including Name and would then be executed on every subsequent pageload around the site.

If there was some indication that someone had reported it recently I maybe would have waited longer, but I suspect this bug had been known for months.
Gamedev is a separate topic. As for designers, they are on the opposite side from users in the tug-of-war of control over content rendering. I don't believe they should get 100% of their way.
Hi Peter, as the blog post talks about, our distributed hypertables typically partition by both time _and_ "space" (i.e., some other column like device id, etc.) as a way to better parallelize I/O (reads & writes) for the "current" time. That is, each time slice is typically spread across all nodes that existed when the time interval was opened. So this greatly ameliorates the interesting "time" problem you mention.

Now, if this time/space partitioning alone isn't sufficient (i.e., demand for a single device/userid/etc at a specific time overcomes the read capacity of K nodes), having time-series data being primarily insert heavy (or even immutable) also gives us a lot of flexibility about how we replicate (as a sibling comment also suggested). And what really helps is that, by design, the architecture we built tracks fine-grained chunk information (rather than just course-grained hash-partitions), which can enable dynamic replication of individual chunks. More on this to come.
After the computer revolution of the 80s and 90s, timesharing was reserved for only the largest mainframes (you might see a bunch of people huddled around a large cage in an Exodus colocation). I stand by the fact that it was exceedingly rare.
What's the point of stating these obvious tautologies? Yes, they have that right, he has the right to post on Twitter, someone has the right to post that on HN, we have the right to call Valve out, you have the right to defend Valve, we have the right to reply to your defence, and so on ad inf.

All true and utterly worthless to point out.
No, it means every smoker has to go to a doctor just to try to use vaping to quit! Fuck that. That’s insane. No adult should have to go to a doctor for permission to use an e-cig. It’s not medicine.

Let the state go after the businesses promoting and selling e-cigs to kids—and levy astronomical fines against them. Sponsor PSAs that scare kids away from doing it. Educate everyone on the potential risks. If these “kids” are 18, they’re adults, so let them do as they please.

Cigarettes don’t require a prescription to get hooked on them. Adults should be free to recreationally use e-cigs just as much as cigarettes, weed, alcohol, and plenty of other substances. It’s their body. Increase taxes on them to try and discourage it and pay for PSAs against vaping. Whatever. But let’s dispense with the think-of-the-children crap, and let adults be adults.
Really nice that this is out, I've been following the github issues related to this for a long time and I think it might be time to start that meshed sensor network I was thinking of building with timescale
More fundamentally, it seems to me to betray a curious misunderstanding of how truth works.

A statement is no more or less true for having been uttered by Einstein or by Stalin.
Neuter, not vasectomy. Vasectomy dogs still will mount, just not have puppies.
More recently, Fireball whiskey was recalled in a few countries for high levels of propylene glycol. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fireball-whiskey-recall_n_606... Note that it had the same levels in the USA but was not recalled because our standards are laxer. Still, it's unlikely to to kill you.
SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!!!
I can't speak for China, but after a quick glance, I can name two actively used airports in the US that I can find on this map that are nothing more than flat stretches of dirt.

[Edit] They're generally used for hobbyists. Although, I once watched a V-22 Osprey practicing touch-and-goes at [1] below -- kicked up all kinds of desert dust. I've never felt more like being in Half-Life than at that time.

[1] Ocotillo Wells Airport
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1469143,-116.1300329,587m/da...

[2] Salton Sea Airport
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2420755,-115.9513012,1246m/d...
Misguided? Are you saying you want to go back to when your state's House Reps decided your state's Senators?

I understand our federal politics are a complete mess but think that has more to do to equating money with freedom of speech, the great return on campaign donations, the polarization of our media and the lack of solid non-partisan research institutes that our elected leaders can rely upon. Have you ever watched CSPAN? Our leaders routinely become informed about the world around us through the same mass media as we do.
No. 385 are redistributed, which still enforces unequal representation, as states with less population than some territories have more purchasing power in the House. For example, Wyoming get a rep for 500,000 people, but everyone else has to pay 700,000 people.

To truly remedy this situation in the House, you have to bring the House up to about 930.

https://time.com/5423623/house-representatives-number-seats/
"Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." - Justice Earl Warren

There's a long history of the US electoral system favoring rural areas over urban areas. Typically, the courts had to intervene in order to remedy an issue where clearly the legislature has a conflict of interest. The most famous is Reynolds v Sims (1964), which stated that electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population [1].

Hopefully, we can see similar change happen in the Electoral College.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
There is no clustering in timescale either. One of the reasons I stopped exploring this option.
The frogs are gay or whatever is fine. Calling people who had their children murdered liars is not. His audience hounded those parents for years. Really disgusting stuff. Friends or no friends you gotta shut that stuff down.
Yes, Colorado gained states, but some other states lost seats. The overall size of the House is unchanged in over a century.
There's an information imbalance so definitive claims can't be made about cannabis smoking in the way that they can be made about Tobacco smoking.