skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They all were monsters and murderers. Kruschev was in charge of the party purges at Leningrad. Beria was something special, but then, he had to be: all the serial NKVD heads were and had to be, but Beria was more monstrous than the rest. Now, maybe Beria intended to liberalize once in power, and maybe he even did a bit, just as Kruschev did later too. But it's hard to say that Beria wasn't going to continue being a monster.

Now, Kruschev and the rest of the politburo certainly didn't want to be led by Beria -- they knew Beria was a monster and would eat them alive, so Beria had to go. Of course, if Kruschev had meant to be an uber monster himself once in power, Beria would still have had to go. There's no two ways about it: monsters have to take the competition down.

Beria had less than four months in power, so it's hard to judge how it would have gone from there had he stayed in power as long as Kruschev.

All I know is they were all monsters. Stalin had seen to it that they so be -- they all had to have skin in the game to protect Stalin.
I'm willing to lend you some money to get things going again. My email is in my profile.
Part of that is if you split it up, fewer and fewer people vote. Outside national elections many people do not bother to vote.
> just call your credit card company(ies)/banks and demand they stop sending you offers in the mail

Yes, I already did that. Everyone should too as well.
I love that analogy. Coworking spaces are like bridal magazines. Something you only need for a year and then may never need again, lol.
A Slice of War, with Extra Olives – Out of Eden Walk
Not OP, but I don't consider Rogan's advocacy of DMT to be a "meme". As someone who has experienced the benefits that psychedelics can bring to your life if you take proper care, I think anything that destigmatizes them is a good thing.
Until the U.S. catches up to Brazil on this front, there's plenty of reason for people to think paper is safer.
Juul's creators increased the nicotine because they felt other vapes on the market couldn't compare to the sensations delivered by regular cigarettes.

The nicotine salts in Juul pods are a type of nicotine that supposedly feels more like a cigarette when inhaled, as opposed to other vapes that use freebase nicotine.

Philip Morris strategy to create confusion is obviously working. Don't buy from big tobacco if your goal is to quit smoking.
That's how it is done in Minnesota, it's a very simple and obvious system.

Average Joe can understand, easy to audit. It seems like the best way to do it.
So I take it, should these results be replicated and validated as scientifically sound, that smoke machines will be banned? Because it's the same kind of aerosol with virtually the same ingredients.

I'm also curious - and maybe I missed it; it's a dense paper - that while they mentioned the primary ingredients in "bare" vape liquids, they didn't seem to mention the concentrations of each used in the study? Again, maybe I missed it...

If it wasn't mentioned, I would be curious how different percentages of each affect the outcome.

For that matter - I would also be curious how "vaping" something similar - say perhaps atomized distilled water in a nebulizer - what kind of results are seen there, too.

While it may be that vaping liquids are "bad" (and any metals from the heating coil, as the study noted), how they compare to other similar liquids might be important in determining their relative danger.

Also - whether this reported danger is warranted or not? That is, when compared to other things in day-to-day breathing, where does this fall in terms of "danger"? Is it worse than being around a camp fire or fireplace? Is it worse than breathing air in a working kitchen? Is it worse than breathing the air while taking a hot shower?

Sure - the numbers can be made to look scary - but what is the objective truth, beyond the idea that "yes, vaping even base liquids is worse than just breathing" - I think we can agree that breathing in something more than clean air is worse for you, no matter what it is. But for all we know, we're constantly breathing in microparticles of plastic and other pollution in greater rates and more often than even a heavy vaping device user.

Lots of questions and avenues that could be pursued in follow-up research on this topic, certainly. It was interesting to read about, especially as someone who occasionally vapes a caffeine-based (non-niccotine) liquid.
not the future we imagined when robots ruled human beings =P
I actually ran across his studies some time ago. I've always been curious if the testing to validate his work used real vitamin-C or ascorbic acid. I will dig deeper into that now that you bring it up.
>I always find it ironic that the Republican party--the party of limited government--wants people to have to go to the bastion of efficiency known as the DMV (!!!) in order to vote.

Even worse is that there is wide bi-partisan support to require people to go through the DMV for the ability to drive on public roads, something that impacts a person's day to day life far more than voting. This is especially true of the poor who cannot afford to uber and those located in areas without public transport.
I don't understand pricing models that limit the amount of posts you can make. That literally stops the user from doing the thing that was the whole point of doing the thing.

(Yes, wrote that like that on purpose)

Cool that you launched and want to build a business 100% but reconsider your features vs cost design and the value you want to deliver. You'll have a lot better chance at building a solid platform to push back on the monetary building tactics Medium has been pushing the hard the past couple years.

Limit on things like custom domains, customization, or tack on features that aid in growth or marketing if you want to wrap cost up in gained features/value by paying.
Back in June a Googler added a cloud run button to one of my open-source repositories (https://github.com/typpo/quickchart#deploy).

As a project maintainer, I like it because it gives prospective users a quick and cheap way to test out service deployment, and it required nothing more from me than the already existing Dockerfile.
I always find it ironic that the Republican party--the party of limited government--wants people to have to go to the bastion of efficiency known as the DMV (!!!) in order to vote.

Is it ironic? Republicans aren't calling for the abolishment of the DMV for driver's licenses. Requiring ID to vote is inline with requiring ID to drive.

I find it interesting the Democrats seem to idolize European governance, except for the part where requiring ID to vote is the norm.

edit: fixed typo - requiring id to vote is inline with requiring id to drive
> Pretty much all the STIs in my demographic can be cured with a $20 pill

If only. HSV2 affects 1 out of 6 people, rarely shows its symptoms and can be latent for years, has a big stigma associated with it, and there's no amount of $$$ you can pay to make that go away, unfortunately. Also the occasional antibiotic-resistant variants of the $20 ones, if you get sufficiently unlucky.
Getting the right score for a person is an open problem.
But knowledge and intelligence should be incentivised.
The fact that most people voting don't read politicians programs should show how autistic our system is.
It has criminal consequences on humanity sustainability and well being.
https://www.gitpod.io/ is getting good reviews recently.
Paper ballots do just fine in a lot of places.

Too much to vote on doesn't seem to be a thing.
While not exactly what you asked for, Code-Server [1] allows your to run VS Code on a remote computer.

[1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server
Since a lot of the ways we do things in the states are pretty ridiculous, I feel the need to clarify for foreigners that this does not actually fly. As I recall, it was only a few election cycles ago someone in my state had been convicted of vote fraud for for filling in the republican candidate option on votes that were left blank on ballots which had otherwise voted republican on every other vote. This amounted to two modified ballots.
1.3 Billion votes on electronic machine that's proven multiple times it's hackable. Yet the Parties use that to showcase that they are advanced despite many people asking for Paper Ballot votes. It's quite ironic that a country that usually copies / adopts Western world isn't concerned about the fact how democracy is better handled in the west. Hope Canada stays strong with its democracy
That is platform dependent, and doesn’t matter. NULL need not be the ‘all zeroes’ bit pattern (1), and even if it did, the C standard says dereferencing a NULL pointer leads to undefined behavior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_pointer#Null_dereferencin...)

(1) Recent C standards have peddled back a bit on ‘it should be possible to write a confirming C compiler for every CPU ever made’ (for example, IIRC, by fixing a char to be 8 bits), so that might be a thing of the past.
Smoking is one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease: agreed

It starts earlier than a lot of people thought: agreed

The primary contributor to smoking's detrimental effects on the cardiovascular system is nicotine: disagree

Mind linking to something that shows this? That doesn't agree with the results from the UK study on effects of nicotine versus smoking which puts nicotine's effects at about 5% of the risk of smoking.
"The most in a decade" is where all the shenanigans of the article lie.

Let's say Peak 2006, Sub-Prime Loan was $600B

Let's say the average, natural Sub-Prime Loan is $100B

After the crash, may be the market over-corrected way to much and slowly crawling back to it's natural $100B.

With this perspective, the narrative becomes totally different. The lending standard is still too tight and still way below what the natural / average economy support.
Remember there has to be a balance between exuberance and over-cautious. A journalist should find out, what the happy medium is

That's why numerical literacy is important
Fake news can lead to false memories
Actual democracy was never this system's cup of tea anyway
By Focusing on Russia, We Ignore Trump’s Existential Threat to Climate
> smoke machines will be banned

Do people put smoke machines up to their mouths and inhale it many times a day over many years?
> However, the programmer failed to inform the compiler that the call to ereport(ERROR,...) does not return. This implies that the division will always execute.

I don’t think that’s correct. The compiler is allowed to assume that functions marked noreturn do not return, but it’s not allowed to assume that functions not marked noreturn do return. In other words, it’s not undefined behavior for a function to call abort(), enter an infinite loop, etc. instead of returning. It would be very strange if it were!

There’s a somewhat related spec clause that lets the compiler assume that certain types of loops will eventually terminate [1], but that doesn’t apply here. Therefore I think the mentioned compiler optimization is illegal. The issue was reported back in 2011; it would be interesting to see whether newer versions of GCC, or Clang, behave the same way.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16436237/is-while1-undef...
1. Check in the voters as usual, but issue them a paper ID for the ballot they can take with them (either a printed receipt or a tab they can tear off the ballot maybe?).

2. Publish results to the public Internet using the ID as an anonymizer.

3. Anyone who wishes to report that their vote was improperly counted or not counted at all can simply present their receipt to verify their identity.

Why is this hard?

Edit: obviously there are complexities when it comes to people who either misremember their selections, but I also see no reason you couldn't also have a copy of your ballot emailed or printed out for you from the voting precinct.
Sorry but this is complete and utter bullshit. Don't fall for the lies and propaganda put out by the social engineers within the democratic party. But of course me pointing this out to you will probably only make you harden your stance even more, because if you're in that party, the veil is firmly over your eyes. It's a cult built around feelings and imagination at this point, not logic and reality.

These corrupt politicians in the democratic party commit fraud on large scales, using your feelings to manipulate you. One example of many of their manipulative, fraudulent nature is attempting to rig the 2016 election for Hillary, pushing Sanders out. The reason they don't want a voter ID is so that they can commit election fraud, but they appeal to your emotions by saying disenfranchised people are the reason. This is painfully obvious to anyone with a logical brain who can recognize these patterns on large scales.

Sociopaths exist. They are driven by their desire to be at the top, lording over other people. Where might they find themselves in positions of said power? Could it be in politics? Within the party that prides itself on being very socially oriented? Seems like a good place to climb to the top if you're a good social engineer (a sociopath), does it not? Would they do and say anything to rise to the top? Most sociopaths certainly would. Why is it that the most corrupt, downtrodden cities are very blue? What happened to places like Baltimore? Where is all that money going?

https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-ci-school-audit...

For the record, I'm not saying any of these things out of hate. I'm saying these things out of love. I want every single person on this planet to thrive. But that can't happen as long as people remain useful idiots by supporting causes based on emotions instead of logic. People smarter than you can easily manipulate you through your emotions. It would be extremely naive to deny this possibility (reality).

Edit for the downvoters: How's that Russian collusion narrative going? You're being manipulated.
do you think humans do something differently?
> This is a horrible idea that breaks the idea of secret ballot and opens up all sorts of vote buying, coercion and intimidation.

Not at all; the parent said "taken into account in the final tally", not "see that their vote was counted as they intended".

This is very similar to the system for paper ballots, with a tear-off receipt. If you type in the ID number, you can verify that that ballot was counted. There is no association between identity, vote choice, or ballot ID.
I hope A.I. is smart enough to learn only from smart people. The are not so many of them though...
Cash or a bank demand account is not without their own inherent risks. A fire, robbery, or forced currency exchange could destroy the value of the physical commodity of cash, and the FDIC only insures individual account bank deposits up to a certain limit so a bank institution failure could cause losses to individual accounts.
There are commercials and ads everywhere on how easy it is to get a mortgage from Rocket / Guaranteed Rate etc. Ever since that started happening I kind of assumed this was coming down the pipe.
The economy at those times was VERY different, there weren't alternatives that are getting cheaper than oil nowadays for energy, the future is in green energy, pushing this agenda of "we need to develop the same way as the current developed nations have done is the only way" is stupid and myopic.

If Brazil was interested in developing itself (and I know firsthand how that place works, fucks sake, I lived my first 27 years of life there) it'd be pushing its development through research on this new green field (pun intended) that is still immature and open for the newcomers to be bold and create the industry the world will rely on. It's a prime place to research and develop renewable technology with abundant hydro and solar energy, with vast swaths of land covered by the most diverse bioma on Earth. Brazil could be doing novel technologies to sell the future world on this, instead it's pushed down by exporting mostly iron ore, soybeans and beef, it's stuck in the past and society is kept uneducated and living on primary commodities exports. Hell, even with a lot of oil Brazil has no technology to refine and produce its own fuel, it sells the oil out just to buy it back in the form of refined oil products.

Brazil doesn't have any internal incentive, politically, to become better, technologically, educationally or culturally, it's a place stuck in time, nothing works, no infrastructure is properly developed. I know that, I haven't visited it for 3 years after moving to Sweden and going back to visit friends and family just made me see how... Nothing really ever changes, projects are always late, bogged down by corruption and bureaucracy, overspending and ultimately most of them are never finished. Lack of reliable and proper transportation in major cities keep poor people poor, being stuck in a bus 4 hours of your day to earn R$ 1.500,00 per month doesn't leave you much time and energy to be able to study, that money barely cover your basic expenses, it's horrible.

So instead of complaining that other countries want it to do better do some thinking and see that it's because there are many other ways to be better, there is no need to follow the missteps of other countries, pave a fucking new way instead of always looking up to what others have done and mimic it. It's the country of poor imitation, the only benefit is that we are inventive and given constraints our people are really creative.

Brazil, as we say, will always be the country of the future. The problem is that the future never arrives to become the present over there.
Tangential: this could have been a better premise for The Matrix, rather than the battery thing. It would make a great story, if it hasn’t been written already.

In a sense babies do this, i.e. they are cute and smile to engage parents and other adults so they engage with them, which increases rate of learning.
I understand most sex work is not streetwalking and I assume they change into whatever when they arrive at wherever they're hired to go. I've also heard that the Amsterdam Red Light District is a costumed tourist trap.
What a worthless article. Was this machine generated? There is literally zero information in it.

>“Mustafa is taking time out right now after 10 hectic years,” a DeepMind spokeswoman said. She didn’t say why he was put on leave.

Its like someone heard a rumor and fed the quote into an article generator that pulled related snippets about moose. If this is a public spokeswoman, why is she unnamed? This isn't reporting.
Can Mars Be Made Habitable in Our Lifetime?
GP didn't say that a bubble is expecting the price of something to rise, they said that a bubble is expecting the price of something with negative fundamental returns to rise.
SIV appeared somewhere between 1000 and 20000 years ago. Then ~100 years ago, it mutated to HIV and shortly after infected humans. We never know what could happen.
> I know of no one that things vaping is harmless.

To me this is up there with "I know of no one on HN who actually dislikes Javascript."

You're contradicting a mantra that is so ubiquitous that it's
a bit hard to take you seriously.

People I know IRL and on Reddit (without even venturing into circlejerks like r/juul and r/vaping) think vaping is so harmless that health effects aren't even the tiniest part of the discourse while they puff on their vape pretty much every waking hour. Compare that to almost every cigarette smoker who is at least in a state of "yeah, I should quit someday." I'd be hard pressed to find someone who vapes saying that, and when it comes up it's usually just for financial reasons.

Not to say you aren't having the experience that you said you have, but rather to point out that you may be surrounded by a rather unique group.
A simpler explanation than artificial manipulation is extreme polarization. This story is a kind of an "egg on the face" moment for one side of the debate, so lots of people have a shared desire for this story to wane without necessarily coordinating to make it disappear.
The Democratic party ignored their Primary results. And neither corporate party allows democracy, because they're both behold to billionaires and anoint who they want as POTUS through the Electoral College, ignoring general election results. If you want to remove the corruption, the only course remaining is revolution. That's where they pushed We The People, because the billionaires and their lackeys have long since stopped working for said We The People except throwing a few token crumbs.
Yeah, subprime lending often makes a lot of sense for the person taking out the loan.

If the rents are high relative to expected mortgages/recurring costs in your area, it will pay itself off very quickly (minus the risk of default you open yourself off to). And it allows you to lock in a monthly payment for potentially decades, which has a massive amount of value by itself.

It also makes a lot of sense if you have reasonable expectation of a large amount of income growth / expense decrease that will free up cash flow. For example, if a household member is finishing up school or in training for a more lucrative field (like an MD in residency) it might make sense to be house poor for a small period of time to lock in rates, take advantage of a nice buying opportunity, etc. Or if you are about to be released from child support / settlement obligations, and thus will experience some increased cashflow, could also make sense.

It's not fair to assume that everyone with poor credit or lack of capital for a downpayment is a bad person to lend to, HOWEVER, in the general case it's probably true that in the absence of impending changes in household finances, an inability to get good credit or accumulate savings is a negative signal. And unless you are a small lender, your subprime loans probably aren't discriminating against people who are about to increase income/decrease expenses while building better credit, and people who just suck with money.
Only because the GOP politicians make it difficult for lower-income and elderly to get IDs.

Also the verification process itself can be often biased or outright discriminatory (ie, registration polls being inaccurate).
The concept of copyright absolutely does have a rational basis in scarcity. Creative works take a substantial investment of time and/or money to create.

The idea that creators shouldn't have the right to control their works is wildly radical -- even more than the FSF's view. Even the concept of copyleft relies on the right of the creator to impose licensing on their creative works. If copyrights didn't exist, licenses that require source to be shared, like GPL, couldn't exist.

You're well entitled to your opinion, but I'm glad the world doesn't work that way, because things like the restrictive clauses in GPL have been very good for the world.
Yeah, and the Lisa cost $10,000 and the Mac 128k was $2500. You can debate the merits of the hw/sw tradeoffs that got to those price points, but it was pretty clear at the time that Apple wasn't going to take over the world with the Lisa.
Code coverage reports and custom configuration with Istanbul, Jest and React
Agreed on the pageup/pagedown placement. Highly ridiculous. I remapped those keys to left/right to stop accidental keypresses. Not ideal, but mostly works well for me.
With 30% of the population not even bothering to vote (regardless of who runs), votes would likely be eerily cheap to buy. And in many states even just getting a couple percent more to vote your way will flip the state.

I'm already not a fan of allowing places to do freebies for people who have an "I voted" sticker. If it takes a freebie for you to go out and vote, I really don't think you should be voting. And it's incredibly likely they'd just vote blindly for whoever is advertising more in the area.
While these are problems, maybe the trade off is worth it for people to know there vote counted. There may also be a solution that allows a person to know but allows them to alter it for anyone else wanting to view it.