skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, we're far from knowing how safe ecigs probably about 5 more yrs until we know for sure, there's always a risk, but we're not anywhere close to knowing with certainty it's dangerous like cigarettes.

All early evidence is showing vaping is far safer... even 2nd-hand smoke with vaping is way safer (no evidence of transfer via 2nd-hand smoke during vaping tests meanwhile cigarette smoke lingers around and hurts people).

There was a reason this was a big deal because it was the first time showing a direct connection to being dangerous and now its again pointing back to a small subset of THC pens and those in the business of hysteria are trying to cover their bases.
Dead simple. Bluebook or insured value of the vehicle being driven. Speed in a semi-truck, or lambo, expect to pay more than the guy delivering pizzas in a civic.
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Ok... but to be fair I'm pretty sure if the toddler ate the vape pen it would be even worse...

And at least the webmd article on nicotine poisoning identifiers vaping as riskier (with respect to it) than smoking: https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/nicotine-poisoning-c...
While I'd probably run in to edge cases, it would be nice to actually point to a standard and say "the libraries all support standard XYZ. that's built in - doing it any other way is going to mean problems ABC and cost $$".
The concept of carcinogens is that certain chemicals are known to cause cancer. We can reasonably believe that products that don't have carcinogens won't cause cancer.
Persuasion is mind manipulation. Facts and truth should be stated as plainly and objectively as possible. It is up to each person how they decide to handle it. Being kind is highly subjective and a slippery slope.
No, this is a problem where the necessary resources used to punish white collar crime are not being allocated.

If there was a known Florida-based drug dealer that was bringing in $120,000,000 of drugs/year, there'd be dozens of cops working around the clock to bring him in.

A Florida-based robo-caller, fined $120,000,000, who isn't paying a penny? Nobody cares.

I understand lack of enforcement against some robocall firm incorporated on Mars, or somewhere else beyond the reach of law enforcement. I don't understand the lack of enforcement against ones based in the US. Jail them, take their homes and cars, put their kids up in foster care.
Why not something common like O'Reilly, O'Neal or O'Riordon?

Which is the real problem - an apostrophe in a surname is a long, long way from unusual.
In the USA, "John Doe" is used for an unknown name. God help someone with that actual name. But hospitals commonly encounter the problem of a patient with unknown name that must still be entered into the database. Presumably the patient has a name, it's merely unknown. Except babies with no or unknown parents. Really no name.
You can do it with AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect support for characters not in unicode. It would be more reasonable to get the character mapped.
I’m the U.K., most of the arguments made against the EU were either not related to the EU or even completely made up.
> This short time we’ve had of “owning content” has been an anomaly

Have you ever heard of books?
Is it ethical to listen to Chris Brown after reading the police report of how he beat the shit out of his girlfriend?
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I'm not writing mobile applications in C++.
> Of course it's easy to criticize the electoral college but look at the results of direct democracy recently, Brexit, the initial rejection of the FARC peace agreement in Columbia.

The obvious counter-example to this argument is Switzerland, which has been a direct democracy (or as close as you can get) for more than 120 years.

Brexit wasn't caused by the system by which the vote was conducted. It was a genuine public sentiment that had been cultivated through decades of media propaganda and scapegoating by politicians. Yes, the fact it was a single-issue vote made the issue more prominent, but it's entirely possible that the same result may have occurred through a general election if the right parties had been galvanized in the same manner.

> There's a reason representative democracy is prefered to direct, it's just difficult to get a balance.

I wonder which group of people overwhelmingly prefers such a system. Political apathy is rampant throughout the world of representative democracies, with a prevailing sentiment that people's views aren't being represented. Two-party politics results in elites being able to control the scope of options available to the electorate.

> Odds are that the Electoral College will be gone in my lifetime.

We can only hope, but that won't solve the two-party problem (or any of the other problems in American democracy such as the rank corruption).

> Is the authoritarian Chinese system better? Of course not.

Is anyone arguing that? The whole point being made is that America is in no position to take the moral high-ground. The US financially (and usually militarily) backs 70% of the world's dictators.
It's been this way forever, though - when I started woody was "stable" but obsolete the day it was released. Since "stable" and "testing" are aliases of branch names, changing them would break scripts all over the place. You move to Debian, you have to learn to speak the language.

Though the truly baffling bit of Debianese is "contrib" which means "this is free software but depends on non-free software." I can kinda see how it came to mean that, but it's very non-intuitive.
Never knew you could contract it has into it's as well.
Once I was working in a piece of software that handled people's names. The client wanted exactly a first name and a last name for every person in the database. I tried to explain why that could be a problem, but they weren't interested. It isn't necessarily the programmer's fault.
No: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-di...
Just because the engineers know that there's a tricky problem with input validation doesn't mean the business people want to take the time to solve it, unfortunately.
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Gaussian Processes seems to be pretty popular, might want to include that to the comparisons.
Gitlab director resigns, says it's engaging in 'retaliatory behavior'
That's actually a great and informative article
Frederick Douglass, the Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project
Backcountry.com fires attorneys, partners with company targeted in lawsuit
The reason, to me, to use Kotlin is to leverage the JVM without having to write Java or Scala. When you don't have the decades of quality JVM libraries there, I don't see much value in Kotlin, outside of high-performance applications that I don't need to write on mobile. Instead I can write TypeScript--and while I don't hate Kotlin, I quite like TypeScript--without having to constantly screw with marshaling between the native/UI layer and Kotlin Native.
Beyond Carbon
Not OP, but as an example, imagine you want to fit the time series of measured monthly CO2 at Mauna Loa:

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Just by looking at the graph, you can see that fitting a linear combination of a constant term, t, t2 and sin(w*t) will give you a very accurate model that has five tuning parameters (four weights and one frequency).
I can understand the motivation to archive the content about to get deleted (although I'm skeptical of the idea it has any value), but it sounds like they basically took no consideration of whether their archive effort would flood the site they're archiving. I think it's fair for Gfycat to be pissed off about suddenly being flooded, it's not worth a lawsuit though. Having said that, the content and website belongs to gfycat and they can choose who they serve that content to.
Kids are already not allowed to buy. Parents should be more active. Taking it from all people 'for the children' is a tell of your and the whole movement goals.

> That includes taking products off the market while investigating unknown health issues.

When you shut down a market or product it does not go away. It comes back in force on the black market. Shutting down the market that is legal and had safety processes, in favor of an issue from the black market, it really is backwards thinking but I'd expect that from an authoritarian prohibitionist.

You are helping the mafias/cartels of the black market and the big fish over a legal market that was working. Own it.

Again, so many bots and propaganda out about this downvoting on topic points.

This is just build up to the Executive Order coming from Trump based on how it plays with their base. [1][2]

I wonder if moderation at HN will stop these new bot brigades or not... These are not HN users but propagandists in HN and it is slowly getting worse, it will probably kill HN into the election.

The startups and small/medium businesses that run the legal market, and do have safety measures, should not be the target and banning or prohibition only helps the bigs and the mafias/cartels.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/health/trump-vaping.html

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/senior-wh...
I think the problem is that it's possible to spoof called ID. The fraud starts before you answer the phone.

Caller ID used to be an extra charge. The telcos needed it not to be mandatory. But now my land line is going away because it's become nothing but an annoyance. They could have prevented that but... but...
Man that's depressing
There are several settings that will send many things you type back to Microsoft. They are on by default. “Getting to onow you” is one such setting. There are also typeahead suggestions, suggestions for handwriting, search box suggestions etc. autocomplete is fine if I am on a specific website or app but definitely not fine in an OS, especially when it turns itself back on silently after I disabled it.
High income doesn't mean upper class as much as a large amount of wealth does.

There are many people who have modest incomes, but high wealth. Those people are upper class.

On the other hand, there are a small number of people with high income, but who have a lot of drains on their money (support a large family, donate a lot), and who I would not consider upper class because they do not have a large amount of wealth
Probably! But I think monads might make it more useful and ergonomic.
Yeah but none of those claim to be the "land of the freedom" and other platitudes as loudly as the Americans
Can we try robocalling them to collect the remaining?
Some non-trivial portion of the sentences were statements of fact based on demographic data and the police investigation. What exactly were the embellishments?
> It will become far less “curated perfect photos” and instead be more slices of everyone’s life.

It's just this, and for one simple reason:

This is snapchat's area of success, and Facebook is doing whatever it can to cut into it. Stories in _literally_ every app they own is as good an indication as any.

Disclosure: I'm speculatively long on snap
Nah, it's signaling. Being nice, to the angry person, undermined the social cohesion of the people asking for change from the company and marked the person being nice as a potential weak link that the company could placate to divide and conquer the opposition.
Strongly second this - the data is just not out there yet on the long term effects of vaping (and keep in mind we use the term vaping broadly but there are hundreds of companies that produce devices of varied quality).

Of course, the harm reduction qualities make it interesting, but I heard a tobacco control researcher explain it like this (not exact quote) - Imagine that smoking tobacco is like jumping out of a building on the 100th story, most likely vaping is not as bad, but there's no consensus on whether you're jumping out of the 99th story or the 2nd

The best thing to do for your health (if that's what you're optimizing for) is to just quit and not replace with a new device. The CDC has a bunch of resources as do most Western Nations in the local languages. Below is a link to the tobacco cessation mobile app from the CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/quit-smoking/quits...
There needs to be postage imposed on connecting calls between systems, payable to the person called, and potentially refundable upon lack of complaint for being unsolicited.

This could work for email spam, as well.

Bonus if people get to set their own postage rates.
You’ll be glad to learn that there is absolutely no overhead in execution time or memory consumed (and a minuscule one in compilation time).
"It's good to see you," Joe said.
"Yes, it's been too long," Jim replied.
Based on soundings. Which is at some resolution, not based simply on what pokes above the surface.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...
yeah he stole a bunch of stuff that is probably already obsolete as of publication of this article. huge cost too in transporting and setting it up. there are and still are guys who made as much as that or even more just quietly running crypto giveaway scams on YouTube and twitter without all the fanfare of an actual heist. of all the thefts and heists involving bitcoin, this one is downright unimpressive in terms of dollar amount.

>Mr. X told Stefansson that he would give him 15 percent of the profits from as many Bitcoin computers as he could steal from data centers across Iceland. The total take, Stefansson calculated, could be as much as $1.2 million a year—“forever.” Because, with the stolen computers, Stefansson and Mr. X would establish their own Bitcoin mine.

yes because mining computers never become obsolete
What is registering a bike? Register with whom, and why?
Speech isn't free (as in effort) either though. There is an overhead cost to the person talking, and reducing that is just as valid as reducing the burden on the listener.
Where are these "fresh block rewards" sold? Not on any exchange. These transactions would have to take place via a backchannel, which very very few miners do.

Coinbase's name has nothing to do with those transactions. It's just a name, taken from the technology.
>Hotel wifi systems tend to break if they ask for a last name to connect

DDWRT WPA2 had issues with apostrophe in passwords. I wonder whether OEM firmwares have such issues, ironical considering special character does improve password strength.
And this is still an issue

I have had issues with this and instead of formatting, due to issues, what I ended up recommending was creating disk images, mounting them correctly and putting files there.
Agreed it has a use case - but if it was truly just a harm reduction device then it could be prescribed by a doctor alongside other options like Chantix rather than being made widely available
Chicago book returns surge 240% after city eliminates fines
It was long ago I worked with PHP, before PHP 5. Is typing enforced with PHP these days? Or is it more like type hints, as in Python?
I'm more concerned by often concerted efforts to get corporate and personal pages to reflect the image they want to project, rather than the actuality. A hoax may be widely believed, but at least it can be fact checked.

Lots of individual controversies seem to tone down to pretty uncontroversial and a few disappear altogether. I don't think there's an easy solution, especially when it may often involve those who can simply throw more people at the problem until it goes away...
Stop allowing spoofed numbers. Period. I'm sorry BigCorp, but this is a public nuisance and trumps your "need" for a single phone number.
I think GAMs are more for the case where you have many underlying input variables and a single resulting response.
Also, you randomly won't be able to send mails, as google will randomly mark them as spam (for no reason, with no explanation and with no chance to appeal)

So you'll never know if any mail you send to a gmail user (which is pretty much everybody) will ever actually reach an inbox

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg08806.html

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-October/10381...
> People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points.

Well, what hope is there then?
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To be fair $120 million in drugs and $120 million in uncollected fines are apples and oranges. The drug money is financing murdering drug cartels that have brought Mexico to their knees. Robocalls are kind of not on the same level as funding human-trafficking, murderous cartels.
This isn’t how Ubuntu even works. Ubuntu doesn’t just “freeze” their operating system every two years. They are constantly delivering package, security, and hardware enablement fixes. Often the stuff that lands in Ubuntu non-lts versions end up in the lts point releases. They keep a stable base of x.x versions but they definitely backport bug fixes to x.x.x versions of their software packages. For example there was a bug in sudo like 3 weeks ago, and Ubuntu immediately issued a fix within hours of the upstream project’s fix.
Lenses are not necessary to practice FP, just sometimes useful (and Edward didn't invent them). Try updating a deeply nested record in your favourite imperative language without mutating the original (!)
It’s trivial to cause a stack overflow (as in allocating too much memory and running out of stack space), but how would you overwrite the return address? From what I can tell, the attacker can only cause the application to allocate lots of memory, not to overwrite memory.
PG has a pretty good essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html?viewfullsite=1
Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood
Objects are enforced and a simple declaration can make PHP enforce the scalars as well. https://3v4l.org/6UU2v https://3v4l.org/q1PAq In PHP 7.4 due in a few weeks covariant return types / contravariant arguments will arrive. https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-74#improved-type-varianc...
Are you assuming that vaping does not contain other carcinogens or that it does not cause other, possibly deadly, health issue? The issue is that we don’t know.
Financial services?

Edit to be more substantive:

There are a lot of places where Know Your Customer rules apply. Further, there are places where identity really does matter, such as insurance. The approach you outlined sounds like a headache when it comes to those things. Not sure who the headache is for... :)
Chrome made tabs practical through multiprocess browsing. Firefox would happily let a backgrounded tab wedge the entire process and it took many years for them to rectify that.
The US is historically unique in its ability to Americanize immigrants and lift them into prosperity. Birthright citizenship isn’t unique to the US, but the is a pillar of what makes the US unique.
Oh no, Snowden. I guess then all other world powers are equally as shitty as the US.

Search "false equivalence". Use Baidu. Or Yandex.
> Yeah, comparing to downloading a tar file from the website and running ./configure, make etc - right, it's probably quite a similar risk. But who does that?

Many linux users? I get most of the software I need through package managers, but somewhat frequently I need to build it by source. Particularly if I want the most up-to-date version on debian.

Git cloning a repo is marginally better in the sense that, well, it's open. Theoretically if it were doing something nefarious, someone would've noticed. Is it perfect? No, of course not. I still think it's better than running random curl'd scripts.
I mean, mathematically it certainly does, but maybe the metaphor is getting a bit strained.
This is the US, where money is speech and one dollar is one vote. Individual consumers don't have enough money to matter compared to BigCorp.
A dedicated, well-maintained name abstraction is certainly something that needs to happen. More than interesting, it's a bit bizarre that this hasn't been done yet (AFAIK.)

In terms of developer-facing complexity, this could be a laughably simple thing to use- just a type that supports equality, perhaps ordering, and conversion to string. Only the constructor would need to be complex. :)

I guess the reason this hasn't been done is simply that the implementation would never be "correct"- there is no formal specification of human names out there, and there would always be cases where some poor individual with an unusual name falls afoul of the system. Strictly fewer cases than we have today, where everyone rolls their own name system, but still some; it's not a solvable problem the way timezone conversion is.

But, on the other hand, that's the way the world is- messy. Developers are going to have to learn better best practices for communally doing our best in cases where there is no perfect answer, because there's only going to be more of such cases as tech continues to eat the world.
It costs $0.06 cents to manufacture a pack of cigarettes. Cigarette companies have a HUGE incentive to suppress vaping -- and I suspect they played no small role in the PR against vaping. While Altria bought Juul, it had no long term competitive advantage. Altria has no capacity to compete in a future where smoking is a technology. We were watching smoking get disrupted by a safer and better technology. That is a huge risk to big tobacco. Cigarettes will be tolerated by governments and the companies will make big profits from a small number of consumers, year after year.
Does this take into account the risk of making a huge part of the country uninhabitable? Please note that:

- The average number of deaths caused by a nuclear each year is neither "risk" (for a country) nor "of making a huge part of the country uninhabitable".

- Past accidents may have been caused by human error. Unfortunately we have run out of übermenschen that don't make errors so that doesn't help.
Telcos are not incentivized to do much about this problem because they get paid by the scammers to complete their calls. As long as telcos continue to make money from these fraudulent calls, the problem will continue to exist.

I'm not even sure that raising the floor cost of making calls would help because scammers only have to swindle a single person out of thousands of dollars to offset the costs. :(
Your assumption is that the framework handles this complexity for you. This incorrect. It provides abstractions to the developer which then allows them to build on these while allowing them to be swapped out for the most appropriate underlying infrastructure.

The point is that building distributed systems as a whole requires a level of understanding in this space but not one that should require you to initially focus on infrastructure or even take that into consideration while writing software. Ideally you should be given these as abstractions which allows you to build distributed applications and offload operational concerns to the relevant parties while still coherently having the sum of the parts work together.

The tools that you mention are infrastructure. And while an environment, a platform, should be provided that gives you the insights and the relevant foundation, it really should not be the primary concern of the developer.

Developers should not be forced to reason about infrastructure.