skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this hope for healthy browser engine competition? On Android and ChromeOS, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers have more than 99% marketshare.

"Apple should allow non-WebKit browsers" is really saying "what's holding back the mobile web is that Google does not completely dominate it." Only one thing prevents that outcome today.
Vaping oil is much different than vaping flower or dry though.

Vaping simply means non combusted smoke which since it is under 450 degrees it reduces and removes 20+ carcinogens.

Noone thinks smoking is purely healthy, but comparing vaping to cigarettes it is a no brainer safer. Oils probably a little less safe than dry.

Also, cigarette butts are next to plastics as the most environmental damage. e-cigs and vaping is mostly re-usable and there are no butts about it.

10 years and there was no issues, suddenly a bunch of them. If you ask me that is blue ocean market sabotage. The big fish are moving in.

Altria bought Juul in December 2018, suddenly in 2019 all these issues and a big "think of the children" offensive that is typical in authoritarian and big fish take overs of markets or to keep something at the underground black market mafia level like drugs.

Prohibition doesn't work, banning and outrage create danger, it only makes it more unsafe in production when people go to the black market when a legal market was progressing and becoming more and more safe. Dispensaries had they own safety state/independent organizations. If they truly want to make it more safe, they will decriminalize and legalize marijuana, end prohibition and make the production safer while taking out the black market competitors that caused this issue.

This is America.

People not thinking it is about market power and money are naive as hell.

You think this is for health reasons? laughable.

Same with all bans and prohibitions, makes it more unsafe and more lucrative for mafias/cartels because there is decreased supply and increased demand, price goes up, in comes the underground and more danger.
Yeah if we are comparing software to manufacturing, the books I prefer are “High Output Management” and “The Principles of Product Development Flow”
This reminds me of defective/poisoned alcohol in the prohibition era causing blindness and whatnot.

If you're going to create a black market via regulation, you better be damn sure the cure isn't worse than the disease. In marijuana's case, that's definitely not true.

The book Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser covers the unintended consequences of black markets in depth and I can't recommend it enough. But pretty much any Schlosser book is great.
I was in no way suggesting that cancel culture isn't harmful.
The pithy quote is just the opening sentence to the piece. The substance is far more interesting and describes a law about the growth of bureaucracies. I strongly recommend anyone interested to just read the whole thing, because it's only 5 pages.

[1]https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf

edit: Thanks. Fixed.
And IonCube PHP Encoder [0] (not affiliated, had positive experience with them as a customer). These apps solve real-world problem - sometimes it makes sense from business perspective to make copying the software more difficult.

[0] https://www.ioncube.com/
I don't think that's a good strategy to do via HN.

I would hire better designer first and than try to get some PR
Indeed. It must be the other 99% that aren’t in the repos because I have to install a lot of things that aren’t available in repos (or that haven’t been updated in stable in a long time).
> allows them to sell at any price the market will bare since

This doesn't make any sense though, as an argument.

If I am selling to 3rd parties, it is also true that I can set whatever price I want.

So, if I set the price to 5$, no 3rd party will be reselling my product below 5$. So I can still set the price...
So just waving away the insane technology leaps required, if we had a digital copy of our DNA we could theoretically create pristine new stem cells and inject them into our bodies as needed to replace aging cells. You might make such a master copy at birth, or more likely in such a world, you're conceived from the master copy which your parents carefully edited before deciding to have you.

Fundamentally we could live a really long time in the far future, which is maybe closer to us today than we are to 0 A.D.
>>Making drivers wait requires manpower. The team acknowledges that the experiment is not currently scalable, but hopes that technology could make it so in the future.

Every motorcyclist who gets pulled over by a cop is morally obligated to keep that traffic cop occupied in conversation for as long as possible. My record was over an hour. Every second they spend 'supervising" you beside the road is a second they aren't handing a ticket to someone else. So I am all for this plan. Make all the cops stand beside the road for an hour every time they ticket a speeding motorcyclist. That will certainly stop all the inane tickets being handed to sportbikes doing 55 in a 50 as schoolbusses rush by at 70.
Canoes don't typically have air bags unless they're outfitted for serious whitewater but they certainly shouldn't literally sink even if they fill up with water.

I have trouble imagining the sort of canoeing I'd expect to see as part of a company outing being some life-threatening activity.

(That said, I'd probably avoid this sort of thing if I were organizing a company event. People have different ranges/types of activities they like and feel comfortable with and I wouldn't want to put pressure on people for what's ultimately supposed to be a fun event. I know whenever we've discussed doing anything along these lines as part of an offsite whatever ideas we come up with always get some percentive of strong "hell nos." Doesn't see worth the trouble.)
Ask HN: Self Hosted Photo Classifier
I’m just looking for something that can classify objects ordinary to snapshots. Already trained and simple to install and run on a Linux box.
Yes! That's him
We should celebrate the end of the unicorn
> How would you phrase that ?

Maybe "I am not entirely sure I feel convinced that nobody would disagree with this description providing sufficient convergence with what might be argued is a valid way to interpret reality". Or maybe "that's being disingenuous", another classic of sophisticated kindness.
It’s sometimes hard to see how the core principles can apply to situations in which there doesn’t seem to be an assembly line with individual steps that produces a gear, a motor, a door panel, etc.

I like The Phoenix Project because it specifically addresses this by showing how they apply in a warehouse and in a cube farm.

I don’t really think you need to dogmatically apply all 5 ways to every environment every time, but it’s helpful to remember them and try to see which might apply any time you run up against a problem.

Things like removing a roadblock, even if it slows you down even more to cross-train someone else in dealing with whatever task is causing the bottleneck is, in the end, in everyone’s interest.
You really think that thick scum on the steering wheel, dash and windows is not harming the most sensitive transmissive cells in your body? LOL
I am all in favour of exclusive apps. I've been using Macs since the early 90s and I have long sought out the apps which show the most care and attention to detail by developers, conforming to all of the user interface guidelines. These apps feel so much better because they are predictable in a way that cross platform apps aren't.

Cross platform UI toolkits have their own internal "logic" that clashes with the native UI, frustrating user expectations.
Warren should have stuck to her guns because this is not going to work. They’re not going to forgive her.

I can’t find the article, but there was a story during the run-up to the 2012 election covering wealthy donors who switched to Romney in 2012. They interviewed one guy and his entire motivation for dropping support for Obama was, I kid you not, Obama telling him at a White House party in 2010 that he hadn’t gotten around to reading his self-published book yet. The donor thought it was really insulting that after all the money he gave Obama he hadn’t read his crappy book. This is especially absurd when you consider Obama was in the midst of battling the massive financial collapse and two foreign wars.

This is why I think bargaining with billionaires is dangerous. You’re never going to be good enough for them.
I like the idea of not concentrating yet more power with Google, but, on OpenBSD, I use Iridium (Chrome derivative), so I see these benefits:

1) Iridium doesn't send info to Google like Chrome does (or that is the idea);

2) It is easier (last I checked) than with Firefox to leave some config tabs open so I can quickly turn on/off javascript, images, and/or cookies for those sites where I need them (by exception only, and easy to do without a mouse once the tab is open), and

3) OpenBSD adds pledge/unveil system calls from the browser, to prevent it from reading/writing files where it should not (plus I browse under a different user than I do other things with high confidence there will not be a privilege escalation; also they say the pledge/unveil support is easier to implement in Chrome/Iridium than in Firefox because of the cleaner separations of concerns in the code organization (my wording; though they have probably also put pledge/unveil in FF also for all I know),

4) Maybe the security of Chrome/Iridium benefits from Google's bug bounties. I don't really know but I'm glad they try.

Given those things, are there still reasons I would prefer Firefox? (I am aware of OBSD removing DNS-over-HTTP from Firefox, indicating that is a choice that should be made by the user at the system level instead).
I’ve been using both of those tools for years too, but those are OS-wide plugins that do not modify Safari’s behavior- which to me is the very definition of a “browser extension”.
It's actually interesting that frameworks provided by platforms such as .NET, Java, etc., don't include an abstraction for the representation of names.

Such abstractions exist for dates, times, calendars, currencies, calculations with money, and so forth, but not names.

On the one hand I can understand it, because names are so complicated, and how would you sit down and come up with something good enough to represent all of them?

On the other hand they're prevalent in such a high percentage of line of business and consumer facing apps that it's almost ridiculous that every single developer on the face of the earth at one time or another has to come up with their own half-baked implementation.

It's especially ridiculous when you consider that so many of these home-rolled implementations, if not all of them, are rife with terrible flaws that constantly cause frustration and inconvenience to a small but significant number of users.
The now defunct (pretty sure) Peacock Data Inc. used to sell (~$300) a data set of names including spelling variations and their strength of relationship to other names. It included nicknames, variations across languages (e.g. "john" ~= "juan"), and typos. It even had different relationship types, each with their own dissimilarity measurement to their related names. I've never found anything remotely that comprehensive for names.

A very efficient way of matching strings across typos (aka "fuzzy") is SymSpell, but just finds nearby lexical matches efficiently.
And one where the likely result wouldn't include release as an equitable remedy.
I think it's primal brain stuff: "Everyone else is liking this post, therefore I must to fit in." I really think it's as simple as that.
Well that's cool.

I'd be interested to know more about the technical details. The article mentions something about "cells" to reduce risk of buoyancy loss from a tear, and something about ultracapacitors. While some of the details may be proprietary, I'm sure there are some interesting things to say about the technology that this article somehow manages to almost completely avoid.

Also aren't we running out of helium (because it's a mostly non-renewable resource on Earth)? I know it's not actually consumed by the airship, but that's a lot of helium, right? Edit: According to my calculations, filling up a Hindenburg with helium (0.2 million cubic meters) uses about 1/900 of the annual global helium production (about 180 million cubic meters).
Yes, it's an extension of linear regression. You can incorporate different basis functions to model trend, seasonality, the effects of external regressors, different frequency components, etc. It gives you a lot more control over the forecast model.
Typically entered as “Baby Surname”, “Baby Boy Surname”, “Baby Girl Surname”. For twins, yeah I don’t think I’ve seen and index appended to their name. I feel like even if the EHR system had the birth time, I would normally get their birthdate starting at midnight. Let’s hope the EHR system keeps a unique MRN for those twins, because down stream systems are totally going to commingle their records. Same applies to Jrs living in the same house as the parent, since their demographics match the parent’s other than birthdate.
I don't consider that solid evidence sorry, it's speculation and all evidence is 100% limited to Vitamin-E. I've never heard any reason to add Vitamin-E to a substance that is already thick. Nicotine e-cigarettes don't need thickening agents to be thick. It's like 95%+ glycol which is already thick. Why the hell would they need to add a thickening agent?

The problem has always been there was a shortage of quality weed and instead of waiting they reprocessed "shake" (the lowest quality part of the plant) and added a thickening agent.

The fact some kids won't admit they smoked THC to their parents, which put them in the hospital, also wouldn't surprise me. The numbers are very small at that.

If anything the risks with nicotine are with the various flavouring agents (which shady companies like Juul already acknowledged, another company I'd never use). I'm not saying there's zero risk or that it's entirely safe. But dying and hospital visits over Vitamin-E are in a totally different league and not something I'm not worried about with nicotine e-cigarettes. I am still worried about THC pens in general, which are way harsher than e-cigarettes, but that's not what I'm defending.
Stillborn babies, unknown murder victims (who likely have names, but still need records kept about them).

Some tribes also don't assign names until children are nearing adulthood, calling them what basically amounts to child/boy/girl.
What fascinates me about it is the psychology of it all.

That guy had nothing to gain, nor anything to lose, in your interaction with the other party. So why was he willing to invest so much clearly emotional energy into it? It's almost like he wanted to have the aggressive interaction simply for aggression's sake. Like he needed to feed on the aggressive emotions or something? There just doesn't really seem to be any sense in this whole thing?
But by your same logic, while we might not have a 100% guaranteed idea that vaping is safe (I disagree we have "no idea", especially compared to other forms of tobacco use), but we do have a 100% guaranteed idea that smoking cigarettes is unsafe.

I certainly get all the hate against Juul - it is definitely well-deserved. But I still think vaping has an actual use case for people who are addicted to cigarettes who want another way to satisfy their nicotine cravings, especially in social situations.
I still struggle to comprehend why the vape cloud is expelled. If it contains the valuable component then why do vapers expell 99.9% of it?
This seems strangely worded even if true. If they are entitled to said freedom, does that not preclude even building the prison?
https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf
Kino Escalation Ladder – Does It Work? Updated 2019
Yeah, switching to a better email provider is on my to do list, but it’s a big project that I’ll get around to “someday”. Easier to fly under Google’s radar.
It isn’t hard, but often very cumbersome. Oh, so you want to test invoicing, for this Customer, which must have a Delivery Address and an Invoicing Adress which both needs valid Postal Codes. And the Customer must have a Contact person. Then we need the Product, that must consist of at least one Article, and each Article must be connected to the Company that we bought it from, with Addresses and Contact Persons and half a dozen other entities. But we have forgotten that the article also need to be in a Category so we know which Sales tax or VAT that needs to applied, for the State or Country of Sale. Then of course, which Sales Person, belonging to a Sales office, with contact person, addresses etc should get credited for the sale. And we still haven’t been able to actually create the order yet, because we haven’t created the delivery options.

I think you get my point. I’ve easily used more than a full day just to get enough data in a naked system to make just the simplest test. I’m very grateful for tools like tsqlt that make unit testing possible (by temporarily turning of FKs)
The sample size is so low you can't get any meaningful results. And use of violence against a guard or breaking prison materials is still illegal (since it's illegal to use violence against anyone and/or to destroy property). But if the door is left open and you walk out without harming anyone, that in itself is not illegal.
This is a great reference, but ten years out of date. Unfortunately there is no really good central place to get updated information on this.

For almost five years, I was tech lead of the text stack in Android. There are a few things about the architecture not to like, but overall it is a world-class implementation - it has refinements like hyphenation and Knuth-Plass style paragraph layout, and of course emoji. It also had the benefit of Roozbeh Pournader's work for much of that time, so it gets Unicode and locales right. Among other things, I claim it does one of the best jobs on the "CJK problem" of any stack out there, using both font selection and the locl OpenType feature to adapt rendering for the preferred language(s). It's open source of course, but does suffer from thin public documentation.

Another good source is Chromium, which tends to be a bit more open, with discussions in the bug tracker and published documents, such as https://www.chromium.org/teams/layout-team/eliminating-simpl...

I'm interested in building the next stack in Rust, and have done some work in this direction. I'd love to see solid documentation as part of that effort, but of course writing takes time and effort, and the target audience is quite specialized.
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-7635,0...
An under-appreciated fact is that JavaScriptCore is really really fast, and often outperforms v8 on benchmarks.
Given strong coffee, broadband, a bit of legroom, and clean bathrooms, I'd love dirigible travel.
At work we use the Living Clojure book. We also make use of 4Clojure [0]

[0] http://www.4clojure.com/
How about 'Nonviolent Communication' ?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I have a one letter first name and Air New Zealand refused to book me with only one letter in my name and then equally refused to change it when it caused problems later matching my frequent flier mile account on another airline without charging the ridiculous name change fee, which the airline agent at the desk said the computer system would not allow her to waive.
Google Search Introduces the Bert Algorithm
No one knows the actual cost of French Nuclear. France has yet to dismantle one of its end of life reactor.

Everyone know that the provisioned costs don't make sense. It was pointed by the national court of auditors in 2012 and 2014 [1] and again in a report from the national assembly in 2017 [2]. We are not even taking about puny mistakes. Even the actualisation ratio used is garbage.

[1] https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/201405...

[2] http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/documents/notice/14/rap-i...
Google’s approach to coping with bad actors, i.e. immediately cutting off people from their entire Google presence for anything that trips their automated systems on any individual platform, is incredibly abusive. People can have years and years worth of data locked away permanently simply because they post a line of emojis on a YouTube video? Simply astonishing.

Why would anyone trust Google with any important part of their lives based on this kind of behaviour?
Punishments are given only when convicted and after you have an opportunity to defend yourself before a judge, with your lawyer if desired.
>“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health” says Instagram’s CEO

Hmm, nah. This isn’t a business decision any reasonable company would make on those grounds alone. It might be a part of it but I doubt it’s the most important thing.

I think what they’re seeing is people probably post more when the pressure of the total number of likes isn’t something to take into consideration. It will become far less “curated perfect photos” and instead be more slices of everyone’s life.

And when people post more, other people spend more time on the app because there is more content to consume, even when we roll our eyes as our buddy Chris posts the third photo of his toddler that day.
> Do you really believe zero oil/ fats from food makes it down the trachea?

Actually, yes, I do believe that. When someone says "Wow, you really inhaled that piece of pie" it's usually meant as hyperbole.
>American exceptionalism

Almost the entire North and South America has it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Smoking has been around since at least the 1700s, it wasn't until something like 1950 that we managed to link it to lung cancer. 15 years is nothing...

I'm not sure where to find numbers about the increase in lung cancer after smoking for only 15 years, but I know most studies look at people who have been smoking for more like 30 or 50 years...
I agree.

But no-one should be running this curl | sh nonsense in prod anyway, right. You at least want a defined version so you'd save the artifact instead of piping.

To me, the whole thing seems like a solution to a self imposed problem. It reminds me of the old "frankendebian" stuff in which people would be warned against having a system half-stable half-unstable.
care to give some examples? Because I am a curious reader who does not live in Iceland and don't have the context to be able to identify the embellishments
Chancla.io: Making Coding Fun and Easy
Yeah, and it constantly changes. Like slavery in recent history, or discrimination by race or sexual orientation.

I also wonder what I just take for granted that future generations will see as evil. Probably eating meat, and not being responsible for negative externalities (burning hydrocarbons).
not related to tech... who knew such things are documented processes...
"Technicality" is a euphemism for "constitutional rights". You don't get out of prison because the cop spelled your name wrong as he booked you. You get out because, in the eyes of the system that sentenced you in the first place, someone steamrolled over rights enshrined at the heart of the American system. Those rights are meaningless if governments may violate them without repercussion. The sum of all the "technicalities" is the thing we call freedom.
That’s not really long term in the same sense as cigarette effects on health.
There's been no evidence. Every dead-end 'please provide evidence' request I can find, I'm tagging with this hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/LinuxFoundationKangarooCourt
Well, for a while there was the artist known as an unpronounceable symbol that was sometimes explained as "the artist formerly known as Prince".