skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I was berated on a forum for my "overuse" of "please" and "thanks" when talking to someone who represented a company.

The angry person argued we shouldn't be so "submissive" and are perfectly in our right to be demanding etc

My response: "It took me less time and effort to type please than it took you to get angry and write all this about it."
You point is generally good, but I don't see it as a contradiction to the article. There's nothing inconsistent in saying, "You should be considerate in your manner of communication," while at the same time saying, "When you are criticized or contradicted, try not to take offense." The two guidelines are compatible.
you still need to provide food and other services to prisoner, it would be quite pricey and lot of wasted resources
The problem with Facebook and other shithole social media is that these networks promote Pavlov strategy which is actually really awful for any kind of discussion. Before the internet, using this strategy socially was called "gossip" and rightly recognized as damaging. It would be very interesting to see the effect of every post on Facebook having a big red banner above it that said, "THIS IS GOSSIP" (before the utility of that UI wore off like old school banner ads). People are incentivized to open with "exploitative" cheap shot comments in order to increase the largesse of their social signaling. This is why I flatly refuse to engage in certain kinds of "discussions" unless in a private group or chat or after limiting the audience of a post (and stating in the opening sentence that the audience is limited and therefore devaluing the post's capacity for exploitation by others). And we're back to the basic trust problem.
This would be a good time to check old HN and Reddit threads for all of the hysteria and “we told you” stuff being spread after this originally hit the news. I also noticed a bunch of health agencies took advantage of the headlines to stir up fear around using them, they never specified what types to watch out for.

I was immediately suspicious that after a decade (or longer) of vaping being popular that all of a sudden people started dying out of nowhere. If it was caused by standard e-cigarettes it there would have been a gradual increase in cases.

The early warning signs that it was strictly a small subset of shady black market THC cartridges also wasn’t a big surprise (they even look shady [1]). The vendor I’ve used in the past for (actual) THC cartridges posts lab tests for all of their vape products to show there was zero adulterants and they were doing it before the big scare.

Now we see that it was 100% vitamin E all along (which was used as a thickening agents for the lowest-quality THC, something glycol-based nicotine liquids wouldn't need).

[1] https://hempherbalshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/5899D1...
This is a very clever question.

If your problem's domain is not too big then you are basically right, but in practice things are more complicated, larger, noisier, etc. I am conflating many things here of course.
We used to have problems with non-ASCII chars in names, we fixed that with UTF, we had problems with currencies and numbers, we made libraries that understand locales and even directions of writing, time zones same thing. So it’s time for us to resolve names now with standard libraries that have been thought through like the above.
Basis function regression is a very under-appreciated method for producing time series forecasts. I've found that it beats most of the methods described in this article. Maybe I should make a blog post...
That's true, he is "just" at 40% of support among voters.

He still has won an election in a country that pretends to be democratic, so I'll politely assume he was the choice of the majority.
I think you can formalize this statement with game theory around how reputations work among social organisms. This applies even to dolphins and chimpanzees.

It doesn't mean you can't be evil in public, but it does mean it's a suboptimal strategy for your own best interest.

Scarily if the public moral compass gets warped enough, then you can be evil in public and get away with it because according to the public you're not doing evil. Like Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany. The definition of evil itself changes.
> Could an airship make sense as a loading dock for drones making deliveries?

Carrier has arrived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5DPovWY7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o
1:26, 1:30, 1:32, 2:18, 2:25, 2:28

Is it ethical to target young people so blatantly in this manner? Does the fact that they are habit forming mean nothing to industry and advertisers?

I guess the chickens are coming home to roost
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Fun and Team building weren't first on the list. I hope they got paid for this.
Maybe there is a typo in the power of the water heater, 15000wh (15 Kwh) seems way too much, a typical water heater (at least here in Italy) is 1.6 or 2 Kw (not Kwh btw).

In off grid situations are common "hybrid" water heaters, with either a plain enough solar serpentine or with a heat exchanger connected to the wooden stove.
How many systems truly need to identify you uniquely, and not just uniquely amongst their customers?

My identity is private. I use placeholder names for virtually everything I do.
Elaine Yellow Horse was banned from Google+:

http://randomtechnicalstuff.blogspot.com/2014/03/google-name...
Instagram CEO plans to test hiding “likes” in app next week
judging from title it sounds interesting. But I wish it was written more in wikipedia style, without book-like descriptions of shackles etc
> 40. People have names.

Any examples where people don't have names?
There isn't anything "fair" about it; it is a blantant misuse of market share to make it harder to use a competing operating system. I do actually have a FAT32 partition as well that I use for transfer (the reason I'm plugging in the USB stick to begin with), I just also have an ext2 partition that Windows should ignore. I haven't used WSL yet, but if they already have code to read ext2 that makes it (slightly) worse, not better (unless you mean the WSL2 actually running a Linux kernel).

Microsoft would prefer to have a monopoly on operating systems, but to the extent that isn't possible/allowed a duopoly with Apple isn't so bad due to Apple's "premium" focus and special hardware. It is clear that the first priority relating to Linux is to prevent new Linux users. While they would love to have a better reputation anyway, I doubt many people will be fooled for long.
I think thats the point? From what it sounds like, you are not paying for the services now but yet they are incurring costs every time you use it.
This change is not going to force paying subscribers off their services.
Excuse my ignorance but, if South Florida had a wall, couldn't people not get in by sea? I know Trump was not discussing adding a wall to anything other than the southern border. I just felt that the premise of "I want to keep Hispanics from entering the country" would apply to people coming by sea as well.
I see your point, but suspect it has to do with expected productivity vs effort. As long as employers aren't seeing an overall decrease in productivity, and as long as employees don't have a significant increase in effort, efficiencies would make it win-win.

This of course presumes that efficiency continues to increase with advances in methods, technology, etc.
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I think a bear attack _on_site would be quite the team building exercise around our office
That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate on that for those of us who might get lost in the terse jargon there?
If somebody's family came from Cuba on a tire raft, does that most likely mean they did not come over legally?
but he completed his life sentence when they didn't let him die and resuscitated against his will, that's just cruel and waste of money, they should held person who resuscitated him liable for all expenses regarding him until death
There’s nothing wrong with being known as the type of person you want to be. It’s a side effect of being a version of you that you like. Of being able to live with yourself.
The window of economic viability for nuclear energy has very likely closed for good at this point except for niche applications. This is because the costs of solar, wind and HVDC have been dropping so quickly.

This technologies have the killer attributes of almost no externalities, incremental investment and very short implementation horizons.

Sure, countries will still like to keep training physicists in nuclear fusion to maintain a skilled group for nuclear weapons which is fine.
You don't have to be kind. You just shouldn't be unkind.
Yeah, it's still early days in this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/health/juul-pods-contamin...
"Poor people are working two to three jobs to make ends meet, especially single mothers. Being poor is bad enough, have a higher mortality rate now you want to destroy their health"

I will say the same thing that many say when they want the middle class and anyone earning money to become more of a slave to the government: They need to pay their fair share.

When all of the wealthy people leave, the next ones on the chopping block will be the middle class. Why should everyone successful be punished for making the right decisions in life?

"Some of these poor people made poor desicisons (due to how they were raisedin their early life)that still hold them back and have lots of mental problems due to family bringing and the environment they grew up in."

This is making lots of assumptions about poor people with no proof to back any of it up. Giving someone free money for making poor decisions will only lead to future generations of people being dependent on government handouts. We need to stop this trend, not continue it.
I honestly think there's nothing more disgusting than imprisoning someone.

I've actually made this argument in my social sciences class that the reason prison sentences are so long is that people generally thought/think the afterlife exists. It's easy to take away an individuals right to life when you think there's going to be another one in another life.

I would personally much rather have the death penalty than anything above 5 years in prison. I don't understand how we're collectively okay with just caging a human being... It's so terrifying and disgusting.

The act of imprisonment for over 5 years itself is a cruel and unusual punishment :(
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>once he had it, started to aggressively distribute it to every leak/piracy site

Did it have any measurable effect on your sales, in percents?
Would you please stop spouting this bullshit?

> But Dr. Schuchat left open the possibility that other chemicals or toxins from vaping fluids or devices could also be causing the severe respiratory ailments.

> Some patients say they vaped only nicotine, and state health officials consider some of those reports reliable, Dr. Schuchat said.

> Because there is still uncertainty about what is causing the illness, the C.D.C. is continuing to urge people to avoid vaping anything, including e-cigarettes.

Just because we have identified one thing that is almost definitely killing people doesn't mean we have identified the only thing. In fact we have good reason to think that we haven't identified the only thing.
I had to stop reading dice man. I just found it to be very depressing because of all the negative actions he takes.
for context, 60 tonnes is two fully loaded 40 foot shipping containers.

if you could make it battery-electric and autonomous, then you've solved for global shipping emissions (cuz we don't need the ships anymore).
Or, for example, on a battlefield.
All the planning charts and deletion orders were on display at Alpha Centauri.
The logic there is if the criminal appeals and gets a charge dropped due to a technicality or some other issue then they are still in jail. Not ideal but not without logic.
Sorry for ignorance. Did you mean to say Simple Linear regression or something else? Do you have any reference for that?
Typo indeed. Thanks.

Serpentine is definitely in the plans for next year!
Wouldn't that just be a separate case?
Is that perhaps distinct from people who has 1 'name'?
Are you asking if, theoretically, a wall could be built in the sea to keep Cubans from reaching Florida?

Whether that’s the case or not, I’m not sure how it’s relevant to the discussion of who Florida Cubans align with politically, since it hasn’t been proposed or discussed by Trump or anyone else.
Weird that like counts fell when people couldn't see how many likes their were. I guess people are scared to be one of only a few likes? Or they want to be cool and like what everyone else likes? I'm the opposite, if something has 5000 likes, what's the point of adding more? They don't need my charity. I'll save my likes for the needy.
Some of them do say that.
> People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives.

My fav example of this is U Thant, who was Secretary General of the United Nations.

His name was actually just “Thant”. The U is something akin to “Mr” in Burmese.
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That doesn't necessarily follow.
So we shouldn't wait for actual evidence to worry is what you're saying? Just be perma-scared because "maybe".

The number of deaths and hospital visits have largely stopped since Vitamin-E was identified, all data is pointing to one thing.

This has always been about Vitamin-E being added as a thickening agent to low-quality THC cartridges which would be needless in any glycol based nicotine cartridges and 100% not needed for any real CO2 filtered THC cartridge that used proper marijuana sourcing. Done right it's as safe or unsafe as it's always been.
I think functional programming is an useful (and probably fun for some people) exercise to see how far you can go when solving problems with a limited or "pure" set of tools. We got and are steel getting a lot of insight from it. Like forcing a boxer to only box with one hand while the other one is tied behind his back. I'm sure one would have learn quite a few new tricks not to get battered in the ring that way. Things do get weird when people start forgetting the the world is a bigger place and there are a lot of ways do the same thing and the reality doesn't care about purity. That makes some people bitter and they dig down even harder into their limited world and start evangelizing it even harder to signal their smartness. In their bitterness and anger they do not see that functional programming has made it big time. Almost every important language today supports multiple paradigms, including functional.
Came here to say this. OP definitely has a problem, but not with microservices, it seems. Additionally, there are different levels of microservices.

Starting creating a communication pattern and separating concerns all the way to the table pattern they have setup, which does seem like overkill.

The former is useful in building teams, the latter is useful in dealing with scaling issues.
I disagree. They could replace planes for me.

Give me a real bed in a room that can be locked (even if shared with a few other people), and a restaurant to socialize like in a train. For comfortable travel I would pay extra, business or not. I must not be the only consumer wanting that.

And no, regardless of "class", airplane travel is miserable. I do not want to seat in a open space with people walking around, eating on my lap or from a folding table food served on a tray.
he's not selling his book, but Ben Horowitz's one

but this article is not that high value.

tl;dr ugly thing is it makes you hesitant to start a company
Vaping is orders of magnitude safer than smoking cigarettes.

9 total have died from vaping. 22,000 die every day from cigarette smoking.
So let me get this straight. People do a dopamine fast by avoiding anything that would be considered fun and enjoyable so that they can be completely rested and enjoy work more? Sounds like a bad trade off. We should probably just work less.
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I read it's three to ten in the US but I saw a show where it's up to fifteen. As for the machines, I know someone who mines on a much smaller scale but still has a lot of security precautions, it's a tough business.
> You want a single-user instance
> Once that person begins opening their mouth

That's the issue here, if you can't open your mouth then you might as well stay on twitter.

Also, your mastodon.technology rules clearly state it will not federate with instances it politically disagrees with but it will also not federate with instances that federate with instances it politically disagrees with. Meaning, if your pod X blocks me from following someone from pod Y, forcing me to run my own pod, then I won't be able to follow my friends back on your pod X. Sounds like a broken system to me. If person A consents to person B following them, no admin should be able to block them from doing so or forcing both of them to run their own instance (most people are not tech savvy enough and will have their voice muted, not super fair, specially for disadvantaged people).

I understand that only something like a truly decentralized and distributed system such as a blockchain would allow for something like that.
What do you consider actual evidence if not

> Some patients say they vaped only nicotine, and state health officials consider some of those reports reliable, Dr. Schuchat said.

And no, we shouldn't. Common sense should tell you that inhaling large amount of steam mixed with other chemicals is a great way to mess up your lungs.
That's a far cry from 'defending KKK apologists'. Then again, having seen other responses you've made in this post, I'm skeptical I should be trying to persuade you.
Burning wood can actually be very eco-friendly if you know how to do it right :) With proper wood and proper burning, of course!

Dishwasher, no way to go without it with 2 kids! Unless you enjoy doing lots of chores :) And actually, a dishwasher is more efficient (water-wise) than washing manually. I dont buy the "romantic" idea that offgrid = cave-age living. My whole point is to be off-grid, in nature, but with some useful modern technologies :)

I've been looking into many passive heat/cooling solutions. We just moved in, so lots of experiments going on :) We do have extreme winters and summers, so a dark color would grill us during summer ;)
I'm in Iceland reading this now and almost every sentence of this article is filled with embellishments and half truths
This problem isn't down to vaping, it's black-market THC products that were the problem. The ingredients in vape products are very safe (similar formation to the ingredients in asthma inhalers, and many other places).

Yes, a dozen or so people have died from this, but this is a fraction of the 500,000 people die per year from smoking-related deaths in the United States alone.

You have to seriously question the motives behind the "Vaping Deaths!" headlines. Most things in excess are harmful; food, even water! It's all a question of context, and how safe something is compared to the alternatives. Instead of encouraging people to move from smoking to vaping, quite the opposite is happening, like trying to ban flavoured vaping products for instance. There's underage drinkers, but banning any type of flavoured alcohol product would sound ridiculous.

I vape CBD as it is the most effective way to consume it to reduce muscle spasms. I have never smoked, I hate smoking, and that's before my dad died from lung cancer. So I have been following the story very closely, it's actually quite scary how low public health factors in the scheme of things. Big tobacco is still very big (and powerful).
9 have died from acute poisoning from vaping. No one dies from that from cigarettes.

Vaping hasn't been around long enough for us to see any long term effects similar to the ones caused by cigarettes.
The SE answer links to the relevant documentation. Spaces are indeed optional. It's not explicitly documented that a non-whitespaced 'MR' is read as a title, but it seems likely.

http://www.amadeus.com/bg/documents/aco/bg/basic-qrg.pdf
I was at Xerox when they were inventing i18N in the mid 1980s. They were so excited when I started because my real name is Mairé and not Maire. They wanted my login name to include the acute accent.

Over time all of the i18N people left for Apple. My login broke and I removed the accent. When I went to Apple I never bothered to add the accent again even though I was friends with the Unicode gang. I never added it back.
> Popper led us astray into a reductive outlook on science that led us directly to the replication crisis in the social sciences, Amy Cuddy and power poses and much more. People act like this is a mathematical problem and it can be fixed moving beyond p-values but it isn't.

Popper's philosophy is baked into how physics is taught, possibly more so than any other field. The great majority of physicists wouldn't recognize the name, but would agree completely with the ideas. And we don't have a replication crisis.
He was so focused on whether he could, that he didn't ask himself if he should
Someone else basically said it but to put it more plainly: broken gametes produce no-fertilization, no-implantation, miscarriages, and non-viable or infertile offspring. So only the good ones get through.
> Scarily if the public moral compass gets warped enough, then you can be evil in public and get away with it because according to the public you're not doing evil. The definition of evil itself changes.

Luckily their social superset, the rest of the world, saw them as evil.

Makes you wonder, what are we currently doing that is evil but the entire world supports it?

China's treatment of Hong Kong and minorities comes to mind. And all the wars and massacres going on that have the full support of the first world and its media.
It's nice to start out typeless during problem domain discovery and proof of concept phase then quickly introduce types when you better understand the problem. This change will help that phase transition with enforcement right in the runtime as opposed to simple doc block annotations.
That’s a false statement. Vaping has been around for fifteen years or more, and common for at least ten.
> In 1919, alarmed by the growing presence of “peoples of Asiatic races,” the Anti-Alien League called for a constitutional amendment “to restrict citizenship by birth within the United States to the children of parents who are of a race which is eligible for citizenship”—i.e., whites. Senator Wesley Jones, of Washington State, promised to introduce such a measure—a proposal not unlike today’s calls to end birthright citizenship.

The majority of countries don’t have birthright citizenship, and Ireland and New Zealand got rid of it in the 21st century. Yet in the view of the New Yorker, that common rule is “not unlike” a rule that would limit citizenship to a specific race.

(I’m a big proponent of birthright citizenship. But the New Yorker’s framing of it devalues it by making it seem like the baseline, instead of an example of American exceptionalism.)
Which seemingly would cover this exact situation. Even if his sentence was complete, he would have more life sentences to serve.

Of course that's a big hypothetical "if."
not sure about mysql, but in postgresql an update on a table with a foreign key will take 'FOR KEY SHARE' locks on the referenced table, which is a weaker type of lock. updates on the referenced table that do not update (primary) key columns (changing a pk is very uncommon anyway) will suffice with a 'FOR NO KEY UPDATE' lock, which does not get blocked by 'FOR KEY SHARE' locks. in fact, the main reason postgresql has these weaker 'FOR KEY SHARE' and 'FOR NO KEY UPDATE' lock types is for handing of foreign keys.
+1. FFT is under appreciated.