skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the 'big names' companies like 'Juul' and 'Blu' are heavily invested in by 'Big Tobacco'. These are the companies you see in gas stations and convenience stores across the America.

But these big companies can't compete with all the Vape Shops that are insanely popular and are everywhere.

This is why there is just a big hubbub over regulation and the deaths over black market Marijuana cartridges. These massive corporations can afford to deal with things like FDA certification of flavors and such things.

Were as the small companies, that make up the bulk of the vape market, cannot. So they will get pushed out of the market and 'big tobacco' will be the only ones that are allowed to sell in the USA. They really don't care if they have bad names and are used as targets by the regulators when they are going to be the only ones allowed to sell to the public.

Governments are going along with this because tobacco is a massive tax base. They can't regulate small business and internet sales in the same manner they can regulate and tax a small number of massive corporations.

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

According to 'Lung Cancer Fact Sheet' there was a estimated 154,000 Americans that would of died to lung cancer in 2018. Tobacco smoking contributes to all types of cancer.

This is why Vaping, which should cut these lung cancer rates by over 95%, is one of the most important public health break-throughs in recent memory.

If allowed to continue to exist in the way it is now it should do more to cut down on cancer deaths then billions of dollars in medical research spent in the past 20 years.

People have found that vaping is massively more effective at helping them to quit smoking compared to patches, gum, or any other medical-grade nicotine delivery method. It's extremely cheap, it's effective, and it's safe and has none of the side effects associated with any other type of drug being sold by doctors to help people quit.

And yet you have politicians now scrambling all over each other to flush this miracle down the toilet to protect their tax revenue and help out 'Big Tobacco'.

And when you look close at the facts behind 'vaping deaths' it's pretty obvious that these are related to drug prohibition more then anything else. These are deaths that are massively contributed to by regulation. If people bought those cartridges from gas stations or vape shops they would still be alive, but they couldn't because they were illegal in their states.
Personally if I was to guess I'd put social isolation way above climate as a factor. If you look at the statistics for Sweden for example on a county level you quickly see that most suicides are clustered in isolated counties deep in the middle of the country, far from the larger (often coastal) cities, with zero or negative population growth and without much in the way of jobs or industry.
What's the actual vulnerability when simply using an unsecured wireless network? Sure, it's easy for them to MitM you if you're using http, but if you're only using https, what's the harm?
I'm still not convinced this is possible. How do you authenticate these sorts of requests so that people aren't able to delete other people's data?
I think that depends on how far you’re willing to go. For example, it doesn’t take many transistors to XOR every instruction byte with the least significant byte of the address it is read from before sending it to the CPU proper.

And that’s just the easy first version. XOR with a hash of the address, swap bits across entire cache lines when loading each cache line in the instruction cache, etc.

Such mechanisms even would be fairly secure if the attacker has access to the machine code of a JITter. The attacker would have to crack the encryption to understand what the JITter does.
I can imagine a simple model where a customer requests a ride. The nearest 3 drivers get asked how much they want to take the fare (perhaps a simple UI saying "What would Bob have to pay you to get a ride to Brooklyn? [$12] [$15] [$20]"). Driver who offers the lowest gets the job.

Uber sets the middle choice to be their guess of the market rate, and the above and below options allow the driver to either undercut to be sure of getting the business, or raise prices to try and get more money.

Considering how much Uber is under pressure for employee vs contractor and unionisation, I'm surprised they don't do this.
What's unethical about reading the parts of a webpage that you want to read? It's like getting a free newspaper and then covering up the ads inside before you read it.
Matrices for evaluating early-stage startups
It is 100% open source according to their website (in the footer).
https://github.com/httptoolkit
>Now I wonder if you can go "hey Google, call 911" to a Google home.

Unfortunately not. It would be a nice feature to have.
You're being ridiculous. We're literally evolved to eat meat.

_Excess_ is bad for your health (such as drinking 1 liter of vegan olive oil).
Why would that be incorrect?
Can I throw in my sincere thanks for VLC. Back in the early 00s a media player that - gasp - actually played videos versus 'visualisations' or printing messages requiring you to install codecs was a rare and welcome thing! And still is !
How does this compare Fiddler?
Since IPO Lyft lost half of its value
Not an exact answer to your question, but another data point: I use PyCharm. it handles everything pretty seamlessly. I really like it.
I think it is opensource no?

https://github.com/httptoolkit
Pretty sure warp is a vpn. The "just DNS queries" service is 1.1.1.1 without warp.
It probably wouldn't have to be double. They're profitable in the NYC market and I think we pay about 30-50% more than other markets (anecdotally).
Example of a GitHub action that takes a screenshot
Falsely claiming that Juul was selling their products directly to high schoolers inside high schools isn't a very strong argument.

Edit: I agree examples cited below arguably constitute selling.

That said, if this is what parent was referring to, would likely have been better to say so since this isn't what selling implies when stated without any qualifier.
> Sometimes it's N days, and you get lucky it's N/3. Instead of credit, you now have a reputation of padding estimates.

Or you just have a reputation of not having the foresight to pad the release based on your estimate.
Under the EU data protection regime, it's already the step where you export personal data to somewhere outside that matters in your scenario. There are obligations on those exporting personal data to places beyond the EEA ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect it to an equivalent standard.

This is somewhat controversial, because arguably it is impossible to meet that standard if you export to somewhere like the US, where there are laws allowing the national government to obtain personal data from those within its own reach, which no contractual safeguards or similar provisions can override. EU nations have similar rules, but only recognise their own national security interests as a valid reason to override the normal protections, not the analogous interests of any third country (that is, country that isn't an EU member state). The UK now has similar concerns in connection with Brexit.
Same in the arts, until you get a Heaven's Gate or other big artist-driven films that flopped at the box office and ate up UA's budget and then company. The studio model is savagely more effective at survival.
Would not be able to exactly explain the features and differences, but https://mitmproxy.org/ is a similar project you might be interested in.
For those interested in the issue, this documentary gives voice to some members of the community.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/angry_inuk/
Can someone here give me a layman's rundown of WARP and why I might want to use it on my Android phone?
That's not how I see it. Regulators started cracking down on JUUL a couple years ago and drove the value of the company down until Phillip Morris bought 35÷. Then they backed off until JUUL started losing market share to the new generation of refillable vapes that use nicotine salt like the JUUL system. The difference? JUUL pods aren't meant to be refilled, and 4 pods with a total of 2 mL of juice will cost $20 in most states. With a refillable system, you can have 30mL of the same strength juice for $20.

So, here come the regulators again to protect big tobacco. They want strict controls on who can manufacture juice. Less competition =more profit. JUUL only has a handful of flavors compared to the thousands of alternatives. So, here come the regulators to limit the flavors. And surely it's just a coincidence that the one flavor they really want to limit it to is tobacco, Phillip Morris's bread and butter.

If you've been vaping a cucumber rosehips menthol juice every day, cigarette will taste like absolute shit. But if you only have the option of vaping tobacco flavored juice? Well, then a cigarette might not sound so bad.

Sure, I agree that JUUL hasn't been an angel, and probably are guilty of marketing to kids. But that all started being investigated well before the tainted THC carts started making people sick.
For you. By then I hope to be living entirely off grid in some place nobody gives a fuck about, years behind on current events. It’s only a matter of securing enough money.
Sounds like a parent on AirDroping a photo?

Seems daft to go after the GNOME foundation.
I think sharing sources would help your point.
Jose Vega’s Story Tripling Plugin Sales Revenue with WP Sheet Editor
Avoid Razer, unless you like visible screen blanking. I've submitted tens of bug reports to Intel, to know avail. ("Try drm-tip")
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping....

> In April 2017, a Juul representative visited the Dwight School in New York City to meet with students — with no teachers present — and told them the company’s e-cigarettes were “totally safe.”

> Other schools across the country were offered $10,000 from the e-cigarette company for the right to talk to students in classrooms or after school.

> In Richmond, Calif. last year, Juul gave the Police Activities League $90,000 to offer the company’s vaping education program “Moving Beyond” to middle school and high school students who faced suspension for using cigarettes.
Spectrum still takes over NXDOMAIN and points it to a Yahoo search page when using their DNS, meaning you now have exposed the browser to all of the oath trackers and pushed it to AdChoices, meaning targeted ads. Not every DNS provider/ISP does this, but when you have one that does, it's probably a net positive to instead beam it to CF which makes guarantees about logging and gets audited[0].

0: https://1.1.1.1/dns/#explanation
Are you at least religious? Seems like a very specific subset of dating services.
Just get a Thinkpad and (mostly) stop worrying.

I bought a Macbook Pro in 2009 and used it until 2017 when I switched to a T470. Haven't regretted it one second. Debian works flawlessly, as does OpenBSD.
This is incorrect. WARP is the VPN, WARP+ is a series of routing enhancements designed to improve performance. Sorry for the confusion, clearly we need to explain it better.
You have it, but it's not pure free speech US style, everything is good because it's the constitution, like bearing arms and whatnot, you have the right to your opinions, but some opinions could lead you to jail.

Which is slightly different.
Pierre Trudeau was PM from 1968 to 1984 (with a brief interruption by Joe Clark's PCs)[1]. Residential schools were taken over by the Department of Indian Affairs in 1969 and by 1986 were eliminated or turned over to the local bands[2].

A better characterization is that Pierre Trudeau oversaw the dismantling of the residential schools.

Given that this is an election year in Canada, Justin Trudeau is a candidate and that this is a very deceptive portrayal of the situation, I'm going to assume this is intentional and report.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau
[2] https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residentia...
I didn’t think it was a bug. Just too much load. Will try again in a day or so.
For example, he said at one point:

> No, we don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp, it’s fully encrypted

It's clear he's speaking about his company. Given Snowden, it would be monumentally stupid to make such a bare faced lie to Congress if they were reading, or facilitating the ability to read, unencrypted content.

Especially as he could have chosen not to say anything so specific. Congressman Schatz was talking about advertising. He could have just said something innocuous like: we don't have the ability to use WhatsApp content for advertising.
Hopefully not Shaker dating services.
How about a hash from a licensed professional of recorded birth time and a sun, moon and rising sign

A lot of people would feel respected and it would be the most benign religious integration into our culture, aside from the names of the days of the week
I fully understand why a company would like to launch this type of service. This is the free market after all, and it would make the company insanely valuable, should it succeed.

However I do have an issue with the marketing behind it. While not said outright, there is a clear message here that due to some unspecified magic your network performance will increase. That's clearly stretching the laws of physics, at the very least. There are also nebulous privacy statements which looks conspicuously like services that shield your identity, which does not seem to be the case here.

If the real intent here is to help underprivileged Internet users escape their great firewall, onboarding some regular users might be necessary to make the service more legitimate. However even a generous reading of this announcement does not seem to support this use case. The consumer VPN business is a questionable business at best, and this does not look different.
HTTP Toolkit is fully open source, primarily AGPL: https://github.com/httptoolkit/. That includes the Pro version too - it's not open core, it's just open source all the way down.

There are other tools that exist anyway, but all the big ones (Fiddler & Charles, for Windows & OSX respectively) are very much closed source. The other similar open source competitor I'm familiar with is James Proxy (https://github.com/james-proxy/james) but that's now effectively unmaintained.

For comparison, using the internals of Fiddler by itself would cost $2,999 per application per year (https://www.telerik.com/purchase/fiddlercore). The standalone internals of HTTP Toolkit OTOH are on GitHub: https://github.com/httptoolkit/mockttp.
Is there a cohort of malware developers in Mountain View who hate their jobs but have no other opportunity for employment? I kinda doubt it.

These devs know what they are doing and in the current economic environment are clearly happy to be doing it.
It seems like you're saying "this is weak methodology" is a fallacy. It's open to all sorts of errors, but since we don't know that any of the errors are really the case, so we shouldn't argue that it's bad evidence? We aren't arguing boolean true/false, but strength of evidence.
Honestly, I've seen highly technical managers make this mistake worse than the non-technical ones. Non-technical people usually ask sincere questions before shoving an unrealistic deadline in your face. Technical managers may have already told someone in the C-suite "ohh yeah, that's easy" before talking to the guy who has to do the work.

I've had ex-programmer managers say "I just want you to add this graph to the app. I could do it in 20 lines of python." In reality, the request is more like "Add in this plot which is the result of a long running calculation. The calculation has to run in a background thread so the app is still responsive, even though the whole program has been architected with a single-threaded design. It needs some mechanism in the UI to indicate it is making progress. We'll also want a way to cancel the task. Half the datasets are using a different sign convention, so you'll need to automatically handle that. Actually, the data is polluted with garbage, you'll need to spend an unknown amount of time debugging a legacy system to figure out where the bad inputs are coming from in order to understand what can be done to filter that out...so we can have this plot by end of day, right?"

Apologies for ranting about my "internal software" days.
I didn't look up the tar sands because it is kind of irrelevant considering the green river formation in the US alone has 3 trillion barrels worth of shale oil with half expected to be recoverable [0] and that is being extracted at current prices so no need for prices to go up. At 100 million barrels of oil usage per day for the globe, it could support the world's oil usage by itself for over 40 years. The US consumes about a fifth of global oil so that's 200 years worth of oil for you. There are also other shale oil sources in the US.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_Formation#Oil_shal...
I moved away from web development after many years of full-stack development. It almost totally destroyed the joy I had in programming.

- happy Agile team? That alone will cost you 2 days of work per week due to meetings, planning etc..

- Javascript? No, it has to be Typescript for even the most futile websites nowadays, and yes, TS adds another 20% of workload

- TDD, with a dedicated testing engineer?, no of course not, you do it yourself! Another 20% of added workload

- A shitload of tooling from linters to bundlers and whatever else that always needs some attention

- Deployement, done by a devops engineer? you must be joking right? That's also the work of the full-stack dev..

Now try to estimate how long it will take to implement a simple feature request from the PO? I always did my rough estimation, times 2. And even that was often not enough because all kinds of urgent issues needed to be resolved, so you're kind of lacking all the time which is a great recipe for burnout. I'm done with it.
A Juul habit is not super cheap, it’s more expensive than an equivalent cigarette habit, by far.
VLC was my favourite video player for years, interesting to find out the history of its creation.
Let's see what you have scheduled in your Google Calendar
Show HN: Cutestrap Two. A Powerful 2.7KB Pure CSS Framework
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks in Python: With GitHub Implementation
I think that for Rust to really take off in that space, we'll need comprehensive, auto-generated bindings for the platform APIs. Are there any serious efforts in that area yet?
If you are hoping to mask your IP you should probably use a traditional VPN and not WARP. WARP doesn't compete with VPNs, it is for everyone who would or could never use a VPN.
I can’t raise the bar at every firm (2014)
Microservices with Docker, Flask, and React Tutorial – Final Week
This is the final week of sales for the "Microservices with Docker, Flask, and React" course. The course will no longer be available starting September 30.

We're launching three new courses on September 30 as well!

https://testdriven.io/courses/microservices-with-docker-flask-and-react/
> This is why Vaping, which should cut these lung cancer rates by over 95%, is one of the most important public health break-throughs in recent memory.

I mean smoking shouldn't really cause cancer to begin with. It really depends on how much radioactive material is in ecigs, which afaik we don't know yet.
Who defines incitement? Who defines ethnic or racial hatred? Is it incitement of racial hatred to post a joke video of your dog performing a Nazi salute?
Analyzing Healthcare Data with BigQuery
A patent lawsuit against GNOME
clickable - https://testdriven.io/courses/microservices-with-docker-flas...
I'm still not convinced a national ID would be useful or even correct.

The only three things I know of that SSNs are really used for (which are currently accepted uses and not DBAs being lazy) are tax ID numbers (which are more or less their intended use), Social Security itself, and the "credit reporting agencies." which are horribly irresponsible. The way they currently use them was originally illegal.
Netflix is also tiny compared to the others. Its entire business is analogous to a single product of Amazon's (Prime video). Not only that but they're reliant on Amazon AWS for hosting.
APRM Set to Lead African Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment
The article includes a summary of what DoH is at the top and also has links to more information. Not sure what else could be done before the article is about DoH itself.
Wind and PV projects typically come in within 10% of estimates.
> If Europeans are too weak for freedom that is their perogative

We can legally drink before the age of 21 because we are able to control ourselves.

We can have sex between 14 and 16 years, because we are able to control ourselves.

We don't shoot other people in school when we are upset, because we are able to control ourselves.

Tell me more about your strength...

https://i.imgur.com/pmQWG4F.jpg
Again, that would mean that he deliberately, explicitly and unnecessarily lied to Congress. That would pretty much require him to be an idiot. He is many things but that's not one of them.

I'm not suggesting that no-one can read them. I have no idea. I am saying that his testimony makes me very comfortable that Facebook is not because he has way more to lose from lying than from not in those circumstances.
Ask HN: What software do you use daily?
There is no clear answer yet, but some signs are pointing to the metal parts used in cartridges/vape chambers being the cause.

Maybe just in counterfeit knockoffs, maybe not. It's unclear.
What's funny is that 10-15 years ago, apple was making the most approachable, softest computers in the game. My brother's old 2007 macbook is sitting nearby right now, and it's in all white with the rounded corners and it feels really nice to touch and use, and you don't feel like you need to take special care of it to protect the finish.

Apple takes the aesthetic far too seriously now, they're no longer concerned with approachability and usability. They're not really in the running for "what computer to give grandma" anymore.
You know why I'm comfortable with Cloudflare after the 8chan decision? It's because they were uncomfortable making it.

Cloudflare is not a government. While we've been successful as a company, that does not give us the political legitimacy to make determinations on what content is good and bad. Nor should it. Questions around content are real societal issues that need politically legitimate solutions. https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

This is an unsolved problem so I don't blame anyone for not having the solution. But I especially appreciate people and companies who are humble enough to admit that they don't have the solution.
If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis? Would it be a public health crisis if we had a meteoric rise in teens swimming, given that the risk of death or illness from swimming is far higher than it is from vaping?
This really wouldn't work for phones. The accelerometer needs to be very high precision, which is why it only works on very recent Apple Watch models. The accelerometer also needs to be running all the time, even while the main processor on the device is sleeping. Also you need a reliable way to detect that the device is firmly attached to a human; it's not acceptable to call 911 when a phone falls on its own.
Thanks to Aumann's Agreement, I cannot convince you that the priors are well-calibrated priors without infinite regress. Do you have sources for other numbers that you would prefer be used instead?
I've known Vasco since we met in the Pittsburgh tech scene a decade ago. Such a great guy and been through a lot to get here. Congrats Unbabel!