skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might also explain why the cases seem confined to the USA and we're not seeing it amongst other large vaping populations like Canada and the UK

There are too many fly-by-night and backyard operators in both the device and liquid industries - it is very reminiscent of the prohibition era where people died from bad batches of alcohol

I'd really prefer to see a well-regulated industry as vaping is one of the best harm reducation methods for the billion or so smokers in the world
Because they considered the sphere as embedded in 3D space.
Popcount was not supported on the original AMD64 ISA. You have to tell your compiler to generate code for a recent chip before it will generate the instruction.
Oooor you can choose not to vaporize things to inhale? This isn't in normal air, it's specifically from vaping
I would recommend this blog post about this very subject: https://www.yegor256.com/2017/09/19/what-motivates-me.html (to show the other side of the story, from the PoV of a programmer)
Thanks for the insight, last time I remember writing assembly for speed was probably the early sse days.

Sounds like a great benchmarking rabbit hole to go down though. :-)
The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales, Rudyard Kipling. This is the one that includes "The Man Who Would be King" that's a fairly well known film with Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

His other short story books, such as The Jungle Book and Just So Stories - so much better than the Disney.

The Time Machine and other Stories, H G Wells.
Disclaimer: I live and work in China.

Not to defend Apple or Foxconn or anything else, but pretty much 90-95% of companies operating in China, if not more, break the local labor law in multiple ways. For example 996 is very common form in fast-paced industries like tech.

This is simply because the (labor) law is not enforced here. Very few laws are in fact.
I'd prefer to see them spending time on polishing their mobile app, which lacks in UX in important areas. For instance offline access to received, but yet unopened emails simply doesn't work. There is a (mis)feature where email bodies are downloaded only on notification, but in my case emails remain unavailable offline and Protonmail support was unhelpful.

But even if email-via-notification worked, it is still pretty much unusable. My usecase is to get to wifi, download emails and get offline, but with Proton mail I'd have to be super careful not to have my app open when enabling connection to wifi, otherwise it instantly downloads all headers and shows no notification, because app is in a foreground, after that there is simply no way to download message bodies other than opening them one by one in all folders. Surprisingly support saw not problem with this UX either.
Yes ok, it’s a bad batch of juice (probably), it won’t effect most vapers (probably), better regulation will solve the problem (maybe). But I have got to ask... was all the vaping done thus far and into the future worth even one person dying needlessly?

It’s cigarettes all over again. Who benefits except the people selling it? Yes freedom, yes whatabout other pointless harmful things in the world, but vaping has already caused more harm than we should accept, I think.
I'll expose my censored comments on twitter, thanks, HN!
How many corium flows are there that there can be a generic one? Or a famous one?
Never Alone on Call
> Not sure why these phones are still large phones without Touch ID

Because people like them and people pay for them?

Your opinion of preference for TouchID seems to not be shared by the majority who prefers FaceID. it just works
It’s all about your bargaining position. In business no agreements are final, you can threaten to break them if you think you can get more money out of it and if the other side blinks first you get more money, if they don’t you back down, get sued or lose your job.

It’s not a moral question, it’s about who’s closer to the money, or harder to replace.
Second, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, lucid and understandable essay
It's not just Foxconn, I have friends in China that work with Chinese tech companies and they're pretty much all the same. They'll squeeze every last inch of advantage they can get out of any business deal and push things right up to, or beyond the brink of a breakdown in relations. It's utterly cutthroat.

I have family over there as well, my wife is Chinese, but those connections are up north. She has an uncle who was a mining company executive, I can't talk about him it's too dangerous. Really.
I don't think you understand the model. People transfer money in, then leave it there. It literally can't lose money.
Just never put the anodized aluminum in the dishwasher. We were told that about Teflon because it slowly erodes the nonstick coating but it’s a different reason altogether for the anodized aluminum. They’re great at resisting acidic exposure, unlike seasoned cast iron, but they’ll turn horribly textured all over the exterior and permanently discolored if you stick them in the dishwasher just once as they can’t handle the extremely alkali dishwasher soap, especially at high temperatures.
Soviet academia had an aphorism to the effect that any discipline which contains the word "science" (or "scientific") in its name is not a real science. I.e. "political science", "scientific communism", etc.

Makes sense, since real science doesn't need to emphasize the fact that it is a real science :)
As a kid I really enjoyed the Winnetou stories by Karl May
"The lost tools of learning" by Dorothy Sayers https://classicalchristian.org/the-lost-tools-of-learning-do...
I think I can make a study/research of this size on my own, among a small group of friends :)
Perhaps he did that. And then a third car arrived behind them both. By the way, the driver of he third car might be not able to read the message on the LED. So what.
It’s perfectly possible to fry eggs in a stainless steel pan with butter, but it requires a bit of technique. Preheat the pan over high heat (assuming a home style gas range) for a least a minute, it should be almost hot enough to brown the butter. Then add a tablespoon (or more) of butter and swirl it around to coat the pan. Gently add the eggs (one is easier than two) and let them sit for 20 seconds. The idea is that with enough hot enough butter the egg protein on the bottom will set before it touches the metal, ie a very shallow deep fry. Done right the egg will be free to slide around the pan.

The next thing to practice is flipping the egg without utensils. Maneuver the egg to the rear of the pan and tug the handle sharply forwards. Practice and confidence help, but the failures are still tasty so long as they land somewhere you don’t mind eating off of.

I suspect most people don’t get the pan hot enough which will let the egg stick. Sometimes you get a fragile egg that breaks up and sticks anyway.
Omelettes work the same way except the eggs are mixed up first. The basics of really hot pan and plenty of butter and the flipping technique all apply.
I wish they tested different oils. I didn't see flax on the wikipedia page, but another page says 225° F [1]. This page [2] mentions flax seed oil flaking off and recommends refined grapeseed oil (which looks to have a smoke point of 400° F).

Usually, I see flaxseed oil in the refrigerated section. I don't have any experience with it, but perhaps the fickleness of storing it causes flaking in practice? Either way, it sounds like there are better alternatives to those two.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal...

[2] https://fieldcompany.com/pages/how-to-season-cast-iron-pan-s...
That's the one! Thanks.
(From the Github link in the top right corner):

Leon Sans is a geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim. It allows to change font weight dynamically and to create custom animations, effects or shapes in the Canvas element of HTML5. He designed the font to celebrate his newborn baby Leon.

This website is the demo of it.
> was all the vaping done thus far and into the future worth even one person dying needlessly?

If it's saved significantly more than that, there's a decent argument that "yes it might have been".

But that's specifically for nicotine e-cigs, in my opinion. They have a clear harm reduction purpose; slightly less clear when talking about THC carts, I think? Thought I'm likely incorrect about my assumptions on that.
Knowing when to use bitmap representation, ops, and popcount is a kind of superpower. When it is the right thing, it makes your program 10x faster.
The bus system is also excellent.
The people formerly smoking cigarettes that switched have likely benefited quite a bit, or will.
Yes, but it’s easier to apply without overdoing it.
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Sloacum.
Because Java is the systems language of the platform.

I don't want to bother with extra layers or be bound to JetBrains tooling.
I’ve done it and that was my experience as well.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott
I built a full CRM for my wife's tutoring business like almost 2 years ago in Airtable. It only took a couple of hours and it's powered her business ever since. Airtable is an incredible tool.
As if I needed more evidence that Bloomberg is below 0 on the credibility scale. They are officially a tabloid to me now.
You’ve just described the history of the US airline sector. Every 30 years financiers forger what an awful investment airlines are and invest money into subsidizing price wars and expansions. It looks like there’s rising profits, the pilots’ unions get generous raises and then competition gets vicious and the profits disappear and the airlines go bankrupt.
What Are JavaScript Classes?
Does anyone have any idea if this is fatal/permanently debilitating or if it is temporary? That would seem kind of important.

EDIT: I guess I meant to say, yes, people have died, but of those that recovered is it a full recovery or a permanent disability?
What are the major benefits of using online ERP solutions?
Interoperability leaves a bit to be desired though.

Try to use Kotlin sequences, co-routines, lambdas (not SAM types) or operators from Java code.
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy at the fast-food joint: I’ll have a double bacon cheeseburger, a large fries, and a diet coke.

Like — why are you buying this totally unhealthy meal and then getting a diet coke? Who are you kidding?

Yet — I’ve been that guy. So it’s not so mind boggling.
A Response to ‘Towards an Understanding Tech Debt’
Veering wildly off topic into inflammatory agendas is flamebait regardless of how many academic citations you include.

HN readers come here for intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There's no such curiosity in reciting pre-existing agendas about who's defaming whose nation excessively or insufficiently. That already is always off topic here. Worse, it provokes others into stepping further into the inner circles of hell. We already saw that below.
You need at least 2 people to enforce the law and at the same time avoid excessive zeal/abuse.

In my city the ticket checkers are always in groups of 3.
My favourite fiction book, well worth the read, and the author was hugely influential on a lot of later well known-English writers including, Lewis Carroll, and according to Wikipedia, a major influence on "W. H. Auden, J. M. Barrie, Lord Dunsany, Hope Mirrlees, Robert E. Howard, L. Frank Baum, T.H. White, Lloyd Alexander, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit, Peter S. Beagle, Neil Gaiman and Madeleine L'Engle."
It's not that fast; IIRC the microcode implementation is either just a loop over all bits or a nibble/byte-wide lookup table for the result. It's not that fast, from my experience, atleast compared to manually doing it.
These larger paragraphs are so difficult to read... The text seem to be written for Google bot, not for real readers :(
Hi, thanks for feedback! I'll add more general information. In my opinion theres a lot to do in complex document classification, I'll try to add some demo to make things more intuitive. thanks!
That is not what I meant. Though the same impulse is perhaps at work, IDK.

The reason I find the modern version of this as adequate condemnation of our species is several fold.

1) We profess a belief in human rights that goes back to our most basic education. Most people in the West are indoctrinated with the values of human rights.

2) We worship at the alter of those rights. We hold up MLK and Lincoln (deserved or not) as our greatest citizens because of what they did for individual liberty.

3) We acknowledge injustice. Every one of us is made aware of the horrors of the colonial period, the Holocaust and the gulag.

Even the most ignorant among us is educated of the moral duties and the ethical possibilities of our world. And yet, we choose to do nothing when our own violate the values of our mythos.

The ignorance that can be said to cloak the violence of our forbearers cannot cloak our own for we do not posses it.
I mean, vaping is not a new thing. And this is contained to the US and not worldwide. Both of those facts should tell us that this is likely an isolated issue, not universal to all e-cigs.
What can you really call alarmism at this point, though? We passed 400 PPM in 2016. Even the best-case scenario is incredibly alarming.
Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft production bigdata clusters
It's a recurring theme: Media outlets publish whatever they 'want' to believe with little due diligence and the product makers have to scramble to put up clarifiers.
I’m pretty sure the game has a version of the actual Elephant’s Foot, but this doesn’t look like it. At the end of the first game you go down into the remains of the Power Station to make a wish like the room in Tarkovsky's Movie. I’ll have a look for some gameplay videos.
I had to write mid size custom markdown parser?/lexer? with many various business requirements or things like attaching additional informations that'd allow frontend to display completion popup menu

I wrote it just as "just" step by step algorithm that transforms e.g 500LoC into flat tree of parsed objects

I thought about learning formal grammar theory, but I couldnt see how it'd help me because at the end everything worked fine. It just needed writing a lot of tests.
There must be a Chrome version of this extension, its trivial to implement (shim all the storage APIs to delete data on page close).
oh cool. is there a way i can upgrade to this font from comic sands in microsoft word 2007? or are they for a different operating system?
The Count of Monte Cristo, hands down. Published 1844 by Alexandre Dumas, one of the greatest writers to have ever lived.

I’m an avid reader and I always laughed at the idea of having a “favorite” book.. until I found mine. I loved the book so much, I resolved to learn French (et je l’ai fait!) just so I could someday read it in the original French.
Why does everybody think that by virtue of math ought to be nice, such a nice hypothesis ought to be true? Isn't it just a form of the survivorship bias that we observe only nice side of math? What if this hypothesis stands true for all N < 10^10^10^467+17, and then suddenly it doesn't? Perhaps to make a breakthru in math (and physics) we need to consider the possibility that the reality can be ugly and counterintuitive and beyond a certain complexity level, math and physics cannot be described by nice formulas.
You don't change people. You change the rules and they either adapt or find a better place with better and more suitable rulles. This is what freedom is about, and a good management.

I like this blog post about this problem: https://www.yegor256.com/2018/10/09/can-you-control-us.html
Once again, it's about quantification. All ideas sound great until we grab a calculator and do the math.

Thankfully some math has been done with regards to planting trees [1].

The next questions are:

How much suitable land is there and how many trees can it sustain?

How much water will they require?

Will they require chemicals (fertilizers, pest control, etc.)?

How much petroleum will they require? Keep in mind that oil is an inescapable part of most processes. An easy example of this would be transportation, tractors, cranes, packaging, etc.

Not being negative at all. Just want to make sure we all understand that without quantification anything sounds great.

As far as my investigation into this domain has revealed, yes, trees are the ONLY technology we have that stands a chance to do some good without making a larger mess in the process. The problem is that deployment at the planetary scale isn't easy. And there exists a real limit function on just how many trees you can actually plant around the world.

Not sure about your claim that trees can solve this problem in centuries.

Ideas like seeing the oceans with iron scare the hell out of me. Again, we are talking about planetary scale effects here. The energy and resources required for such a task are monumental. Beyond that, I don't know about you, but I've had plenty of experiences where an experiment was predicted to result in A and I we got Z instead. I cannot imagine doing something like that at a planetary scale. We could literally kill-off half the species in the ocean if we are not careful.

The most important thing we need today is to stop our politicians from spewing nonsense. Seriously. These people are dangerous beyond belief. It isn't only about none of their proposals being worth the paper they are not written on, they could actually cause massive harm and hamper real science-based approaches to making things better. In general terms, politicians have turned climate science into a disgusting circus act (or whatever analogy applies best). If you ask me, THAT is the most urgent task ahead for the scientific community: Getting politicians the hell away from this domain.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-cou...
> This doesn't make sense to me. When I say "the parts of the music that would have been quieter", I'm mostly not speaking of softer passages vs. louder ones. I'm referring to the fact that even within the span of a single measure, the original signal will generally have had significant peaks and valleys.

I don't think that can be right - sound is a waveform so even the loudest notes will oscillate around zero. "Loudness" would usually be defined as something like root-mean-square amplitude, but if we zoom in to talk about a single note (sine wave) then the peak amplitude and the RMS amplitude are in a direct relationship with each other. On the scale of a whole piece, yes there's a difference between average and peak, but on the scale of one groove to the next - a couple of seconds - I don't think there's any practical difference.

The complaint I've heard about "loudness wars" e.g. Californication is precisely that there are no soft passages - every bar is pushed up to full volume. I'm not aware of anyone talking about the effects of compression on a smaller scope than the couple-of-seconds scale.
I'd me more interested in their clarification on NordVPN, ProtonMail/VPN and the data gathering agency Tesonet.
You're acting like "people" is one cohesive group. I'd largely suspect there's minimal overlap between the GMO group and potent THC vapers.
This is a ridiculous statement. The "actual value" of the striking workers (pilots) labor is "ALL the company's profit?" Nobody else -- mechanics, flight crew, reservations agents, IT staff, marketing, execs -- deserves a piece? What about investors -- by definition, nobody invests in a company designed to not return a profit.
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On-point.

Exponentiation is not like multiplication because it's not associative.

(2^3)^4 != 2^(3^4)
There have been 5 confirmed deaths so it seems fairly serious.
The WTF-8 Encoding
The problem isn't with the compression part per se, but rather with clipping. The two typically go hand in hand for modern needle-in-the-red CD masters.
It simply repeats a slogan that's favored by one side of the ideological abyss and rejected by the other. Therefore there's only a single bit of information in it, the bit that signals which side the comment is on. An HN comment needs more than one bit of information to count as substantive.
The Bitmanip extension definition document for RISC-V explains a wide variety of what were, for me, unfamiliar but terribly useful bitwise operations. Well worth reading even if you have no particular interest in RISC-V. Many of the instructions detailed have analogs in AVX, NEON, and recent POWER instruction sets. Often these instructions are poorly explained in the official manuals.
I had a startup in Vaping(nicotine) and am still fairly in touch with the industry. There has been no major innovation in nicotine eliquid that would cause a sudden cluster of issues. It's stayed pretty constant since 2013 with the exception of Salt Nicotine, which Pax labs has a gras study published for.

The majority of cases seems to be THC carts where it can be confirmed. One case was confirmed from a dispensary in Oregon. The "Dank Vapes" carts are sold on eBay/AliExpress and anyone can fill them with anything. Reading on here the VitE may have been to increase potency is not something I'm familiar with since I'm not in the TCH trade, but I do know that synthetic vitamin E is made from a petroleum product precursor, and a food grade level of purification may not mean a quality to which it should be vaporised and inhaled.

CDC's reaction is over the top, especially next to the FDA which is offering more precise warnings of avoiding THC carts. Be safe if you're using these thc products, especially since even larger suppliers have trouble tracking supply, bank accounts and company formation that typically cleans up quite a bit of the bad actors from an industry. Nicotine vapes have matured significantly because of this moving to clean labs and central production of the liquid.
I usually heat up the pan directly after cooking and wash it under the hot water. Just heat enough so it makes a bit of steam when it hits the water, scrub with a wooden spatula.

Or while cooking, add water if it fits whatever you cook. Make a sauce out of what is left after the sunday steak is out of the pan.
Are you sure vaping is actually reducing potential harm? Because our national health agency isn’t[1]. As I understand it, a few brands come with a lower risk of certain tobacco induced cancers compared to smoking. Which is harm reduction, I guess, but research is suggesting that all vaping comes with greater risk to the respiratory system and heart.

Of course the real issue in evaluating the safety of e-cigerates is that we need 30-50 years of people dying from them before we really know how they compare to regular smoking.

[1] https://www.sst.dk/da/sundhed-og-livsstil/tobak/andre-tobaks...
Have you ever done anything you enjoyed, even though it entailed greater than literally zero chance of your death? Like showering? Or walking down the street?

You see, for people who enjoy vaping, it's sort of like that.
Well, generally, when you grab your phone, you’re going to be looking at it anyway...
There's no question, they're definitely accountable for violations like this. I think they know that, which is why they have the monitoring and interview processes in place.

The question for me is, what's the mechanism for enforcing accountability down the chain.

Foxconn operates the plants, so what is the mechanism for incentivising them to comply? What penalties or sanctions do they face for violations? That's really the only way to get to the root of this, but it can't be financial penalties to Apple. That would create perverse incentives and moral hazard.