skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not surprised at all, and I'm surprised that anyone is surprised. The idea that one can breathe particulate or droplet matter into their lungs without causing problems seems absurd on its face given everything we've known about the effects of air pollution for decades. Tobacco is not special.
Not sure how big ig was on acquisition, but I always remember that story being about WhatsApp with only 35 engineers
I grew up in Norway without TV and with no guns in the house. Was still interested in guns. Don't know how I became interested, it happened before I can remember.

(and no, I'm no gun nut but I was very interested in guns as a kid - as many other kids.)
And so the IoT wars begin...
Perhaps we need special economic zones where there is no PvP. Where you can only own a house there if it’s your only house, etc.

For people who want a slower paced life or are downsizing.
Please stop with this fud. 80% of antibiotic production goes to the livestock industry[0] and that is where all the antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve.

>Antimicrobials are widely used for disease prevention and growth promotion in food animals. In the United States, antimicrobial use in food animals is estimated to account for ∼80% of the nation’s annual antimicrobial consumption, a significant fraction of which involves antimicrobials that are important in human medicine in the treatment of common infections and also necessary to perform medical procedures such as major surgeries, organ transplantation, and chemotherapy.

Read some of the tables in [1] (data from 2017) on how antibiotics are administered, they are shocking:

Feed : 3,432,373 Kg (62% of total production)

Water: 1,655,410 Kg (30% of total production)

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/112/18/5649

[1] PDF: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDru...
This seems to be less about the language the code is written in and more about whether the code is contained within the app bundle. So an Electron/Cordova/whatever app that runs JS from the local bundle will still be OK, while loading the code from a remote server will not.
You don’t think statues of anyone should exist? What about Michelangelo’s David?
We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’
Most languages never get anywhere.

Languages of the quality of Smalltalk, and Ada, and Dylan, and Self, and CL have vanquished in the margins, and e.g. even something as celebrated as Haskell does hardly better in the industry (some financial companies, this or that project, and so on), so the chances of a new language like Crystal are slim to begin with...
Fraternities and sororities have kept libraries of old graded exams and essays for decades. How is it fair if one group can see the Chemistry 101 exam from the previous year?

This is probably the reason why you never see your final exam or even other exams after you take it during the exam period.
Thanks! Yeah it is my favorite editor and the os is entirely written in it :)
In fact, doomgeneric is created just for Soso in order to port easily.
I used to work at FB and now work at Reddit. The engineering staff count at Reddit is within the same order of magnitude as the number you cite above. :)
There's not much to publish. It is just me saying that a custom contact book allows finding out a lot of people's accounts, them saying that the behavior respects people's settings and is working as intended.
Right now there are literally 100s of millions of people vaping.

A small percentage of Americans, who mainly smoke THC, are suffering.

Sounds like someone in America is doing something dodgy.
Interesting. In Brazil, it is used for a completely different expression: "Don't throw rocks on other people when you have a glass ceiling".

Like, don't accuse other people when you are committing the same or similar sin.
China Organ Harvest Research Center
Medical Mix-Up in Spain Leads to Werewolf Syndrome in 20 Children
Who are they?
The search is definitely one of the biggest pain points when using the UI. I can only hope someone makes an executive decision and forces every service team to offer a proper search (more than prefix, same page search).

I assume the bad search functionality happens because the service teams don’t really use their own service with more than some demo resources.
To my knowledge, one of the defining characteristics of DoH is that it's not configured by the network.

There is a default setting managed by Mozilla which the vast majority of users are expected to use (currently Cloudflare's resolver). You can choose to disable DoH or set your own resolver - however that has to be done manually for every installation of Firefox.

Mozilla is offering a way for networks to signal "don't use DoH here" as described in this article, but Mozilla is intending this to be used for certain specific scenarios only (parental controls and corporate networks) and reserves the right to ignore the signal if it is misused.

To my knowledge, there is no "DoH" entry in DHCP, where a network could specify a local DoH resolver. All articles I've read about it also very much treat it like an application-level protocol, as opposed to the old mechanism where resolution was done centrally by the OS. If this approach is continued, then every application would have to decide for itself which resolver it uses.
Yes, that is part of the evolutions I mentioned, what I meant essentially was saying that a two speed gearbox (electrically/hydraulically operated) reminds me more an overdrive box (which is actually a two speed gearbox electrically/hydraulically operated) than an actual 4/5/6 speed manual or automatic gearbox.

The actual use of the old overdrive was to lower revs of the engine (please read as save fuel) at a given speed, or (I know, not the actual intended use) to increase top speed, which is exactly what the new Taycan gearbox seemingly is used for (automatically, not manually, of course).

I remember a diesel Volvo station wagon (must have been a volvo 240 or 244) where in order to overtake someone at 120-130 kmh, the procedure was:

1) turn A/C off

2) accelerate as much as possible in 4th gear

3) push the override button

that gave just a little more speed.
Nice. Reminds me of the opengl32.dll's that were made to be only just enough to run GLQuake.

What made 4Mb pages easier than 4Kb?
If you consider the amount of money they are burning in comparison to 5 years ago, are the results really that impressing? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Just speaking my truth. I don't drink or smoke anymore either, don't miss it. Enjoy. ;)

Author states:

"In essence, JOMO is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose, and that you don’t need more time. You just need to use your time in a way that allows you to act on intent-based ideas, such as creative projects or spending time with the people you care about the most."
There's maddy, but it's very new and not very popular.
Ironically, whatever the article says is hidden because mediums front end seems broken on mobile safari right now, greying out the article but not displaying their annoying modal call for signup.
Shouldn't any kind of smoking be a big no-no with ashtma? Really curious because I have rhinitis and can't stand smoke around me.
Note that this probably has less of an impact than you’d think:

> Apps may contain or run code that is not embedded in the binary (e.g. HTML5-based games, bots, etc.), as long as code distribution isn’t the main purpose of the app, the code is not offered in a store or store-like interface, and provided that the software (1) is free or purchased using in-app purchase; (2) only uses capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software); your app must use WebKit and JavaScript Core to run third-party software and should not attempt to extend or expose native platform APIs to third-party software; (3) is offered by developers that have joined the Apple Developer Program and signed the Apple Developer Program License Agreement; (4) does not provide access to real money gaming, lotteries, or charitable donations; (5) adheres to the terms of these App Review Guidelines (e.g. does not include objectionable content); and (6) does not support digital commerce.

You’re free to make a web app as long as you don’t try to sell things through it.
MacBook. just use the flip phone for calls.
First of all you need to hire some partime med student, maybe some PhD student.

And set them into investigatory work of unraveling the current researchers and meeting the doctors who are at the cutting edge treatment for your specific issue.

A funded PhD student would love doing that.
IE3/4 was pretty good. It wasn't until IE5 that it started to stagnate and rot.
I have asthma. Even legal dispensary bought THC cartridges put my lungs in such a bad spot that my rescue inhaler barely brings relief. If I wasn’t well aware of that and hit one a dozen times over the course of the day I would be in serious trouble.
Chu spaces: A model of concurrency (1994) [pdf]
Consider moving to a country with a healthcare system?

The US has a healthcare industry, its main purpose is to maximize profit. This leads to a very dangerous distortion of priorities which distortion is institutionalized. Doctors and everyone else have to work within these limitations which puts any patient at a serious disadvantage.
Show HN: PollarBoy – Minimal link based polling webapp made for fun
This is made to appear like an insight of the lives of those living on less than $2/day, but if you look closely, the videos have them talk about micro-loans they get and such, as a covert ad for [1].

Which is OK, I guess, but it's never explicitly mentioned, and the way 5 out of 6 people in the videos talk about those loans is entirely non-organic. Those are not some random people making < $2 day, but people selected because they participated in those loans...

[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do/global-growth-and...
It likely has some effect though at the same time, it's much more difficult to see "them" as evil when you're neighbors, making everyone a bit more purple.
The proportion of read/write may skew towards reads, but Wikipedia still is an application where any user can create state visible to all other users. It's not as simple as this comment makes it out to be.
I take this to mean that apps that are just a chrome for a website will no longer be approved. I also wonder if they’re targeting apps that use services like CodePush.

> This means that the core features and functionality of the app must be contained within the binary of the software, rather than made possible by referring users outside of the approved app, including through the use of HTML5.
Meanwhile, dnscrypt-proxy, that has been doing exactly that since 2011, is still looking for help with developing MacOS and Android user interfaces.
The history of medical opioids is weird.

Pain is a complex phenomena.

This has caused a lot of problems with pain treatment. We used to think heroin was okay, then we realised it was addictive. So we moved to other opioids thinking they weren't as addictive, but they are all about as addictive as morphine and diamorphine. We started reducing the quantities of the opioids and adding other meds like paracetamol / acetaminophen. This led to fucking stupid meds like coproxamol -- a mix of dextropropoxyphene (an opioid) and paracetamol. This opioid is very toxic, and it was killing many people in the UK until the licencing changed. And then we tried other meds like NSAIDs and etc. Some of them sort of work for some pain, some are very good for a specific type of pain. But they all have side effects.

We split pain up in different ways. We talk about chronic (long term) pain or acute pain. We talk about medically unexplained pain, and the implication is that the other pain has a medical explanation.

The public have three incorrect beliefs about pain treatment.

1) Opioids are effective

2) Pain is either real or imagined, and imagined pain isn't real pain.

3) The aim of pain treatment is always to eliminate all pain and anything less is a failure.

Turns out none of these are true.

Opioids are a good choice for a limited number of patients. It's really important that people get all the opioids they need at end of life, for example. Or that people going through surgery have them available if needed. But for long term pain they're a bad choice. The person in pain ends up taking very high doses of opioids, with all the side-effects that causes, and they're still in pain. We can see their function - the stuff they do every day - is much reduced. We also see some conspiracy-theory style thinking here - "morphine is dirt cheap and this non-opioid you've got me on is really expensive, because you're in the pocket of big pharma".

We know that patients reject psychological treatment for their pain. They'll say "but my pain is real, it's not all in my head". But many pain patients experience benefit from psychological treatment. (Imagine a purely physical disease like t1 diabetes. Even these patients will get benefit from a psychological treatment. Clearly I don't mean that mindfullness will control blood sugars, but the 3 questions "can you do your bloods every day?", "can you take your insulin at the right dose and right time every day?" and "can you adjust your diet and lifestyle?" -- these are all firmly psychology).

Sadly, lots of people in pain will not experience relief from that pain even if we give them high dose opioids. So pain treatment should be looking at function. The aim should be to allow someone to live their life even if they still have pain.

For one example of this see "Sean's Story" https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/2019/06/25/seans-story/

There's also a visit to a pain-management clinic in a section of this radio programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv052
The only way I can see an adult consider 20km per litre (50mpg using real units of measurement, made for adults) a good score is if you're american...
Parents could just charge their children for the security services, housing, financial assistance, meal preparation, vacation planning, party planning services, etc.

Then when the child came of age it could make student debt look like a rounding error.
I mean, probably. Cigarettes make me hurt (haven’t smoked one in a decade at least). Vapes make me hurt. Smoking weed from a clean pipe gives me almost zero negative effects unless I smoke significantly more than usual over the course of a few days.
Is this by design/intention, or just because DoH hasn't caught on yet so Mozilla is setting a sane default here?

I can see how it would be a drawback if the network administrator had no way to configure the setting for all clients.
Goodreads Is Broken
If you remove guns, children (boys) will use sticks as swords and hit each other with them.

If they have no knowledge of swords, they'll hit each other with sticks. Can't get much more primitive than a stick.

What would that relative measurement tell you? Nothing. The mixture is different for each kid. But I can tell you the play fight, with whatever tools they think are appropriate, is 100% universal.

In fact if a boy didn't do that at all, I'd honestly have him tested for a developmental delay.
Related discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899523
I think that the vast majority of UI's in AWS are perfectly fine. But there's one that drives my entire team insane: the AWS Parameter Store

Holy mother of god, the search on it is horrific and simply doesn't work. Heartfelt begging through the feedback tool goes unanswered. I have offered money, firstborn children, sacrificial goats, virtually everything. But the search is still broken :( I've had to scroll through a hundred pages of parameters to find things.
I dunno, man, most of my (Indian-American) family lives out in the Midwest and not in some hipster coastal city.
That is indeed correct.
Easy solution: just leave it off entirely!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
I totally agree with you. I will never trust what Facebook says. And not only that. When I look at pesenti's clarifications, the only think I can think of is: "They will probably start safe and really not create any face templates for now (during people's attention is on this topic), but after a few weeks/months (when the topic is no longer discussed) they will start doing it anyway. That is the amount of trust I have for Facebook (and Facebook is not alone in that category). Nothing good can ever come from Facebook.
Let's fast forward a few years from now to the point where we determine that e-cigarettes contain some sort of cancer or lung disease-causing product / additive, just like we figured out with cigarettes decades ago.

What I don't understand is why the FDA will not outright ban them immediately. (Well I probably do, and the answer is lobbying.)

Regardless of your stance on whether or not the FDA _should_ ban ingredients that pose health risks (government intervention on liberties et cetera), the fact is that this is the FDA's policy. It bans harmful ingredients (usually).

So with that policy in place, what's the deal here? If and when e-cigarettes are found to contain a chemical that is directly linked to cancer or lung disease, will the FDA ban it? Or will it conspicuously let it slide, and just slap a warning on it, like it did cigarettes?

https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/pro...

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/food-addit...
I had the exact same experience. I had the kidney stone and dilaudid about 10 years ago, but deep down still hope to get a kidney stone again so I can have that feeling again. It’s terrifying. (And I don’t think they’ll even administer it anymore for kidney stones.)
Sure, except then it's without the actual benefits of a quiet day. The staff at those businesses, delivery drivers and what not are now working Sundays too. Lots of small businesses and self employed are pushed near to the point of no free day, just to compete and stay trading. Early closing day and closed Sunday is a forgotten concept.

There's plenty of families now where both partners getting common free days is a rarity, let alone organising group meets. You don't need a day for grocery shopping - just an hour or so. It's not like we found it difficult, or the public agitated for it before Sunday was added to supermarkets and Primark. It was just a concerted trade push for more commerce. :)
If such a hyper bacteria were possible it would have happened a long time ago. Bacteria must adapt and compete on many axes, there is no silver bullet. Don't forget that antibiotics were invented by nature (penicillium).
Another cite as well:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinker...
Amazon does have vendor and seller managers who are allocated to specific vendors/sellers. I'm surprised that for a $2.4M/year AWS customer (presumably with the highest support level) that they wouldn't have a similar setup. That said, having personal attention from a manager is definitely not the same as getting features actually built for you.
> How is it fair if one group can see the Chemistry 101 exam from the previous year?

Back when I studied the school would openly distribute old exams - complete with solutions.

And no, not everyone got an A despite this, and yes, I still remember my maths (helped someone the other day, I guess it is about 15 years since last time touched it.)
One of my pet peeves about it (might have since been fixed) is that AWS will gladly walk you through the wizard to set up an EC2 server, and only at the very end say “oh you don’t have permission to do that lol”.

I compared it to a bartender who immediately recognizes that you’re underage but offers you alcoholic drinks, gives you samples, asks about preferences, counts out your change, and only after all of that stops you from drinking it.

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2016/02/some-of-my-geeky-t...
There are many more secure public resolvers than Google and Quad9 : https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers
No, I am not implying that. Read the GP comment. He was asking if that might be the case.

You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education.

He doesn't even know the difference between Chandragupta Maurya and Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He thinks Takshashila was in Bihar. He has the audacity of telling a bogus "tea made from sewer gas" in IIT. He lied about his DU degree. He believes people in ancient times knew genetics because of how Karna was born (or some bullshit like that). He appointed Smriti Irani as HRD minister who has zero experience. She even claimed she is Yale educated. Modi's followers are hell-bent on revising the history. They have coined the terms like "urban Naxalite", "intellectual terrorists", "khan market gang" and countless other such terms. They are openly anti-secularism and muslim-haters. His followers openly threaten historians, intellectuals, social workers.

Even Modi himself is accused of being responsible for murders of so many muslims. He favored Pragya Thakur who is accused of terrorist attack. She openly cursed Gandhi.

I can go on and on but it is pointless.

These might be casual things for you but not for everybody else. Your hero is demon for other. Your nationalist is fascist for other.
Job Search and Network Effects
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MTA press release shows why and where they intended to install them...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/sets/721576856233358...
This article lacked any useful insight into Kubernetes and the trade-offs involved in using it. My personal experience is this: Kubernetes itself is complex to operate. However, it's very easy to run applications on top of it. The question is whose life you want to make simpler: a small number of admins or a large number of developers?

Attentive readers will note that this is the same design trade-off that public clouds make. (There's also the cap-ex vs. op-ex thing but Kubernetes enables you to manage that as well.)
We're out of the woods now it seems [no longer destitute] but the 8pm scrum at Tesco was always a bit fraught.

It seems like the supermarkets don't have as many deals as much now, I suspect they donate more to food banks (they can probably write it off at a higher value than they could sell it?).

Tesco in particular no longer have a "cheap" section, it remains on the shelves. I'd guess that's so that people will mistakenly buy expiring goods (netting them a higher sale price, and earlier repeat sale).

All elements of the squeeze on the poor and the widening poverty gap.
Fly to England for treatment and pay the Overseas Visitor rates which should be 150% of the tariff rates.

If however you're in England and the issue is in getting hold of something like Avastin: if money is no object you can go private and get it. Make sure you read the CQC review of the provider, and check the professional registrations of the doctors and nurses.
A really good presentation on the privacy implications of "modern DNS" by PowerDNS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2F92orIEO8