skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other important thing to note is this: vaping was introduced as a way to quit smoking cigarettes, but now, as backed by numerous studies, we see that, not only just a very small percentage of smokers leave cigarettes completely and opt for vaping, but also, a lot of people (especially kids and teenagers) that would have never smoked cigarettes in their entire life, are introduced to the habit and gesture of smoking by vaping. This means that vaping is doing the opposite of what it was advertised to do, it is a road that leads towards, and not away from, cigarettes.
Why do you think there are some many flavors to decide between when vaping? Strawberry, chocolate etc. are just the basic ones to pick from.They are tasty and colorful. They are targeted towards kids. The tobacco industry found a new way to advertise itself and to enter the homes of innocent people. Imagine this: a 12 year old has been taught that cigarettes are bad. He decides he will never smoke one. One day, he passes by a vaping shop with his edgy friends and they decide to buy a nicotine-free juice with some brand new vapers. It tastes good and you can do all kinds of fat clouds with it. Wow! Plus, it's not cigarettes so there's nothing to worry about. After a few months the nicotine-free juice is not edgy enough for these young teenagers, so they decided to buy the one with a small percentage of nicotine. Now they can prove how badass they are. During this period of time they acquired not only the habit to go in and out a vaping shop, but most importantly the gesture of sucking a stick and inhale the fumes from it. They are psychologically dependent on it. But the nicotine-filled juice is not edgy anymore, so what's next? Cigarette of course! In this way innocent kids that would have never picked up a cigarette start smoking, thanks to vaping. It's a sneaky move the Tobacco industry studied and they fooled all of us.
My personal experience: I smoked for 3 years and quit 1 year ago. While first trying to quit, I used vaping as a mean to succeed. No need to say, not only I started vaping, but I kept smoking MORE cigarettes than ever before. This is just my personal experience of course, but it shows a little the uselessness and damage of vaping.
What if 5 people want to go to different places at the same time?
From the article.

"You can't just say: SUV is basically more dangerous than [other types of vehicles]," accident researcher Siegfried Brockmann from the Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft (Association of the German Insurance Industry) told DPA.
Zerohedge is entertaining, I always look for the sources in the articles I find interesting, so I can sometimes just read those instead or cite those.

ZH's formulaic way of writing sensational bearish pieces gets a little tiresome after you notice it (posted submitted by guest readers like this one don't follow this format):

Intro about main point

Background on main point

Quote from the source about the main point, repeating the background section but in italics

Controversial next point, with a bolded section

Quote from the source about the controversial next point, repeating the exact prior section, but in italics

Tweets

Two line conclusion, with a finance pun.

I try to just read Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal directly. But Zerohedge's decade long bear market porn is so entertaining.

They used to have credit market specialists writing, but it seems they don't stick around for long.
I wish I learn how to draw earlier so that I can help my friends to draw...
Said paper is from 2013, 6 year without being confirmed or with being repressed?
It just means that I'm not. People are reading way more into it than they should.
China’s middle-class growing increasingly anxious as prices rise and yuan drops
This investigation is only about their ad network
Gradle dependency verification: checksum vs. PGP
It can easily mean that, like gluten allergy, the Glyphosate allergy also has a genetic component. One that is more widespread perhaps.
Recently I visited a historical hydro power plant, which is still operational. The operators were in the process of adding huge shields and fences around the flywheels due to safety regulations to protect visitors. Apparently they had been only fenced off by a rope and the faith in humans‘ self preservation instinct for the last 100 years. However, when i saw those fences, it struck me as very odd why this is not mandatory on every road. The amount if kinetic energy of those flywheels is certainly comparable to a 1-2 ton car moving at 30+ km/h.
That's not true. I'm very socially adjusted. But thanks for the attack, anyway.
Doesn't have to be 5, you would model it and adjust.
> We have a similar levy in the USA, except it's mostly paid by people that can pay for healthcare, so an aspirin costs $100 when administered by a hospital.

> And since insurance companies are smart, they negotiate down those exorbitant rates to something more reasonable

This is just absurd, though. The market value of aspirin administered by a hospital is not 100$, but closer to what the insurance company negotiates it to.
It didn't make the front page. It's now been flagged and has disappeared.

HN is full of Tesla fans, not EV fans, and the voting patterns generally bare this out.

As an EV fan myself, it's a little annoying.
good point, that's exactly what I thought
Interesting news. This is another reason the 'you are only gluten intolerant if a doctor has diagnosed you with Celiac...!' argument is not sound. If cutting out something from someone's diet is beneficial to them, the causation might not be all in their head--it just might not be settled science yet. Especially since the gut is turning out to be very important in autoimmune issues.
Probably some degree of genetic predisposition. Just because glyphosate may trigger gluten intolerance in some people doesn't mean it'll have that exact same effect in everybody else, even within the same family.
They wait 10 min instead of moving a cumulated 10 tons of steel to displace 250kg of meat.

I know, "that's insane!", right ?
So it’s a hypothesis based on animal studies:

>”The symptoms of so-called “gluten intolerance” and celiac disease are shockingly similar to the symptoms in lab animals exposed to glyphosate...”

Not a study on humans confirming their hypothesis. So it’s definitely interesting but hardly conclusive.
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As far as I know, road damage is not linear to weight, it is exponential. See for example https://www.vabike.org/vehicle-weight-and-road-damage/

SUV that is 25% heavier than a sedan, destroys the road much quicker than a sedan would.
Certain genes leave you more "prone to" certain conditions.
Tolerance may vary between individuals. Similar to high-carb diets. Some people can tolerate it well, while others will develop diabetes. Some of the difference can be explained by genetics, but it's still early days.
Very disappointed in the opportunistic politician. All cars pose a similar risk. Whether it’s a SUV or regular car isn’t really material.
SUVs also tend to have much more powerful engines.

If the accident was really caused by an epileptic seizure (as the media speculate), a smaller car with a less powerful engine wouldn't have accelerated as quickly as that Porsche Macan.
Then somebody else is going to do it for you.
Will we soon demonetize the treatment of neurodegeneration?
Intermittent fasting is increasingly getting more and more a bad rep in mainstream media.

The researcher here seem to think autophagy can also be induced in the brain with IF.

If true, it could be very big. Demonetizing the treatment of neurodegeneration?
We can significantly reduce the number, and severity, of accidents like this with advanced AEB (autonomous emergency braking) systems. It's much easier to implement AEB which can respond to lane departure, pedestrians in the vehicle's path, etc than to go all the way to fully autonomous driving, which remains an unsolved AI challenge.

In Europe, AEB is mandatory on all new vehicles receiving type approval from 2020. In the US, it will be implemented on all new private vehicles from 2022.
You sit higher, and you see more - that's why people like driving SUVs. Problem is that lights from SUVs often blind people in sedans - they are often misconfigured or badly fixed.
Were Obama and Clinton not friendly enough to big business for you? Obama bailed out the big banks without any real punishment and had Henry Paulson (ex CEO of Goldman Sachs) as Treasury secretary.
All the helper links in one place
Maybe Adam should expand his ventures to the business of overhyped music festivals for the tech crowd, they could call it WeBurn or something.

Not that anything like that ever had major problems

But on the topic, ZH is good some 20% of the time, the other 80% is just packaged talking points on "long big recession" (I mean that's actually the motto they follow), EUphobia and some amount of Russianphilia
it seems he is comparing them to french courts?

it may surprise you that france is not a province of russia
Larry Niven - Ringworld (+ Ringworld Engineers), The long Arm of Gil Hamilton, Oath of Fealty (Oh man! They had instant messaging wetware! ...And a diving board!).

Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and Issac Asimov are some other heavy hitters in this space.
Europe has all of these, and their unions and regulations are substantially stronger even.
The Last of Transylvania's Saxons
Direct link to the article:

https://medium.com/@vladimirsitniko/dependency-verification-...
This is definetely the way to move forward, but here in Berlin it would be political suicide for now. The steps to take (some of which are already being taken):

- Introduce good bike lanes, narrowing down streets. Give bikes more priority in traffic rules (can't really be done in Berlin since they are federal rules).

- Introduce an inner city car toll. Offset losses to businesses that absolutely require it through tax breaks. (construction, delivery drivers, taxis etc.)

- Close down non-essential streets completely during most hours (4-6am free for deliveries etc.). Reduce parking/make drivers pay for parking.

At the same time, you need to make it easier for people to switch:

- Reduce prices of public transport for residents. In Berlin they want to introduce a yearly ticket for 365€, that is perfect.

- Increase availability of public transport, and make all busses electric.

- Introduce large parking spaces at key points in the far suburbs of the city. Parking there costs a fee that also works as a day ticket for public transport. Express busses take you to the city centre/other key infrastructure points.

Some of these are already being worked on in Berlin, otherwise I know are on the agenda and being discussed. In Berlin specifically though, some points might not be legal. Inner city toll for example might be prohibited by federal law.

E: One important point I forgot: Cars account for 25% of all emissions in Berlin. On the local level, getting rid of cars is the best thing we can do to combat climate change.
I immensely enjoyed Children of Time by Tchaikovsky, coincidentally winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke award :)
If you mean as a pedestrian, lots of variables there, so who knows? The bin truck has more room underneath it.
It's been cited 155 times.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=61493914670281996...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=61...

Probably just gone unnoticed, ignored or suppressed by mainstream media.

Edit: am I being downvoted by the same people who think voter suppression isn't a thing or pointing out China's mass incarceration of Uyghurs is propaganda? What in the fuck, Hacker News. I expected more from you people.
If I get hit by a mini and suffer a few broken bones, then, yeah. But if I get hit by a mini and live in a coma, then no.
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You also might want to look up the Sherman (R) antitrust act
Snopes does a pretty good dissection of this including appropriately putting the research study in proper light:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheat-toxic/

As if the getholistichealth.com domain wasn’t enough of a BS smell...
Artificial Intelligence vs. Robotics: All the Facts You Need to Know
I don’t think it’s practical to depend on electronic braking mechanisms. Better to install bollards protecting sidewalks.
I'm not sure what "both sides" of pressing someone's hand into their arm until their wrist snaps is. Nor am I sure what "both sides" of someone being hit with truncheons until they convulse and stop moving is.

Are you saying the footage is faked or something else?
Essentially if each instance can keep track of validating transactions locally, the whole thing can be easily implemented with Bookkeeper and distributed log API [0]. Bookeeper guarantees single writer (the master node which is appending to log) for each ledger. All it needs to be done is to put concurrency control metadata (like version, timestamp, ...) inside the message so each node can validate stuff locally.

[0] https://bookkeeper.apache.org/docs/4.9.2/api/distributedlog-...
Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings
I've recently installed Windows 10 in my laptop where I already had Linux installed.

After restoring the boot order and booting Windows I installed Intel Driver & Support Assistant to check for outdated drivers, it found one for the integrated graphics card and after installing it I could no longer boot Linux.

To my surprise it had enabled Secure Boot and deleted the Linux EFI entry without asking.

Do you think this is acceptable?
Examples are there to teach how stuff works, you can't be a programmer by copy-pasting everything. Read. learn and do it yourself. Maybe you can push it to Ballerina central as a library :)
Minimum wages in most European countries are quite low. In France, minimum wage is about $11/hour. That’s the same as Wal-Mart.
The out-of-network stuff is the most insane part of the American health system. No question, it's deliberately set up to trip up those who need urgent care. There are plenty of stories of people who go out of their way to find an in-network hospital to have surgery with an in-network surgeon, only to be billed for the anaesthesiologist who is out of network - something they cannot object to because they're being put under. Even if they could ask, what choice do they have - take the surgery while awake? So beautifully set up to screw over the patient.

It's often said that health is a highly profitable business in America. And yet it is astonishing how feverishly the average Joe will fight against free healthcare because those who make the profits have convinced them it's bad for them. Look at any country with nationalised healthcare; none of us in the UK have a bad word to say about paying for the NHS through National Insurance if it means we can walk into any GP's surgery or hospital and never need to worry about money or insurance.

In the best possible way I hope the system breaks completely and it has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Maybe then some semblance of fairness can creep in.
Still ... Berlin is a very car-friendly city, with lots of parking space, large wide roads going on for long straight stretches. While the public transportation in Berlin is also great, as a foreign visitor, I like the fact that I can easily bring my car into all but the most central bits of Berlin. (And the Berlin metro-area is gigantic)
The World Expected a Chinese Tech Takeover. Alibaba Can't Even Conquer Vietnam
It has been proven that gluten intolerance/sensitivity does not exist (while celiac disease is very real), so this article seems suspicious from the very first line.
There are various studies about that, and even researchers that found some evidence about it, show that there is no such thing in more recent studies (10.1053/j.gastro.2013.04.051).
Corporate governance for startups is such a joke sometimes, it’s unbelievable. And investors bring it upon themselves.

You want sustained hockey stick growth, regardless of the cost to the team and the business, no matter what? Then you’re gonna find some founders that are much better at making the business look promising by hitting certain metrics than actually building a solid operational foundation for the business.
A talking bird can teach other birds to talk. But those birds can't teach others to talk

Maybe not a fact but Macaws click their talons much like a dino, atleast in the way the Dino's were presented in Jurassic Park. But they do the head bobbing motion too.

A talking bird can have a sense of humor. My macaw would call the dog to the cage. Throw food at him and then laugh. Sometimes in a British accent. I have no idea where that came from.

And they are pretty territorial. I have a scar to prove it.

Granted this is mostly anecdotal from having a macaw for thirty years
Indeed. I'm not quite sure what I think of the ban. But if there is a ban it should be based some combination of weight and engine size and not whether the car is considered an 'SUV' or not.
But not all SUVs are Porsches. Plenty of smaller cars accelerate much more quickly than SUVs.
It seems the bottleneck with netflix would be storage requirements and number of PCIe lanes for extra NICs. I really don't see how, "This framework couldn't run a site that accounts for up to 40% of internet traffic at peak hours on one server; clearly it's terrible!" I like scaling as much as the next guy, but Pareto dictates (as does experice) that most stuff is simple business logic with an interface.
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> You sit higher, and you see more
To be honest, that was fulfilled by my smart ForTwo or my mothers Mercedes Benz A class, just as well as my now Hyundai Kona.
Evidence against?
I like hacker news because it always provides different opinion and new aspect of any problem.

Thank you.
Hope this is a good sign
PlushBeds+Savings+Ends+Soon
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> This is definetely the way to move forward, but here in Berlin it would be political suicide for now.

It's definitely a political suicide in most cities in the world, but it's probably the best way to get out of the madness we lowered ourselves into while retaining most of the mobility.

I agree with everything you listed.
I'm sure hundreds of women won't go into STEM, now that this one new language has a picture of a ballerina with batteries giving a massage to some dude with a laptop.

Maybe they should illustrate her putting batteries in a vibrator, so she can go fuck herself, just like you should.
In London, authorities have been doing the opposite—removing pedestrian guard rails.

One study [1] found this has resulted in a significant (56 percent) decrease in collisions resulting in deaths or serious injuries.

[1] http://foi.tfl.gov.uk/FOI-2274-1718/Pedestrian%20railings%20...
Agreed.
Very untidy to my eyes.
I'm not a fan of the moving ad bar at the top, or the progress tracker thing either.
You can't protect the mentally ill, the careless, the ignorant or the foolish from themselves.

How about those idiots who take selfies close to cliff edges?

If that is how you feel why not fence of high mountains to prevent mountaineers from falling to their death?

Why not fix child locks to vehicles driving in safari parks so the passengers cannot jump out and be eaten by lions? That wouldn't protect them from charging elephants though.
I don't think there is much of a difference in the crumple zone for a German SUV and a German sedan. Do you have any sources?
I am not too surprised. A lot of emergency services use analog radio. Pretty much works with all radios, and no setup before hand unlike with encrypted radio. No need to negotiate things with other agencies either.
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A bottle over the head is just as capable of killing as a nuclear bomb, at least according to your logic. Yet everyone has rather clear preferences when confronted with that choice.

You're twice a likely to die when hit by an SUV than average, according to the statistics being quoted here in Germany. Cutting pedestrian casualties in half is about 30 years worth' of other technological progress we've made. And unlike pie-in-the-sky technology, it is an actual, current, option.

So let's ban them until such a silver-bullet (plus electric propulsion) are available. If the technology is so obvious, it's just a short hiatus and won't even inconvenience anybody for too long.
Obviously, a different mass would make a difference in a wide variety of situations. SUVs don't drive slower than other automobiles. Also, kinetic energy has velocity squared, not cubed.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=SUV+...

I've seen numbers showing in pedestrian accidents, SUVs are twice as likely to kill the pedestrian than smaller cars. Nonetheless, I'd rather we just phase cars out of inner cities entirely.
need more details
As mentionned by other commenters, the study does not seem to mention K2 and magnesium. When it comes to bone health, my understanding is that D, K2, Mag and Calcium, probably other minerals play a crucial role.

And since K2 is made in the gut, gut health, once again, should be taken into account?
I've tried... nobody hires remote developers without remote experience. It's one of those Catch-22s, like getting credit with no credit history.
Andy Weir - The Martian. Possibly the most well researched science fiction book I've ever read. Well worth reading even if you've seen the movie, since that leaves out about half the things that go wrong and the large majority of the technical details.

Andy Weir - Artemis. Weir managed to figure out a way for a city on the moon to make economic sense, while physics makes it almost impossible.

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves. First sentence: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." What follows is the brutally, unforgivingly hard consequences.
Hmmm. For context, a Porsche Macan seems to weigh about the same as a Tesla Model 3. If "heavy Porsche SUV"s like this are too dangerous for city streets, I don't see how electric cars can belong there either - and Greenpeace's co-option of this event (mentioned in another article) to push for electrification seems exceedingly dubious.
this paper has so many "maybe" in its conclusion, trying to tie every possible human disease with glyphosate, it is hard to take it seriously. Almost surprised they did not try to link climate change with Glyphosate usage.

On a related note, having a ton of links to other studies proves nothing at all so if this is what you rely on to make a point this is very weak.
Cool, I tried to make a UI some time ago, with interlocked boxes that had depth [0], and it was a real hassle to get everything lined up properly with the borders. So much I didn't bother getting it done as it was only for a fun workshop. Could this be done with this css?

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/oA6Cslw.png
Ditto in firefox mobile. Parts of text not readable
> Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster ...

Except when you go over your Verizon bandwidth limit.
I would not care to be struck by any vehicle, thank you, but IIRC, vehicles with higher front ends may be more dangerous to pedestrians:

studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also blamed SUVs for the higher death rate, concluding that "pedestrians are two to three times more likely to suffer a fatality when struck by an SUV or pickup than … by a passenger car."

https://www.aarp.org/auto/driver-safety/info-2018/suv-pedest...

I’d like to see the study, the first question I have is whether they accounted for the proportion of SUVs on the roads increasing relative to cars.

It’s common for second- or third-hand accounts to gloss over details like that.
This paper has been written by the same guys who wrote that glyphosate causes autism :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff

All their work have been heavily criticized by academics and therefore shouldn't find their way to mainstream media.