skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what it's like over there (either cigarettes or e-) but here I would say anecdotally that a lot more school-age 'young people' smoke cigarettes than just-after-school (i.e. university students & early career); so perhaps 'those [young people] who already smoke' is quite a different group here? It'd be interesting to see the underlying not-anecdotal data, for sure.

To clarify - I mean that perhaps British young people that would ever experiment e-cigarettes are already experimenting with cigarettes, whereas American young people are less inclined to (I think the legal age is mostly higher, for a start?) and so the intersection with e-cigarette users has a smaller, and different, starting point.
Like I mentioned in my post I dont doubt they have skin in the e-cig game. However the music industry is also heavily invested in online streaming but I'm sure they would all love to go to the days of $20 CDs.
Subscription services are "strangely" like that. You call and choose the option to subscribe, someone picks up instantly. You choose the option to cancel, you get a few rings before you get an automated message telling you their operators are busy. The same thing with chat. If you were trying to sign up for the NYTimes, I doubt the chat service would be busy. I sometimes choose the "sign up" option and ask the operator I want to cancel my subscription. 9 out of 10 times, they'll say we can't do that here and transfer you to the cancellation department where you have to wait. But 1 out of 10 times, the "sign up" operator takes your account info and cancels it for you.

Of course it's all part of their shady customer retention practice. Hope their customers get frustrated and give up trying to cancel.

Subscription services are like STDs. Better not to get it in the first place than trying to get rid of it later on.
vs not having a stockpile and hoping that if you just explain to people that you have no food they will stay out?
Home Depot has been out of masks and respirators here for weeks now.
San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood was actually quiet. Barely any traffic. Imagine that.
A huge number of people nowadays are equating the fight for species conservation with the fight against climate change, or at least assuming that the two are well-aligned. This article is a good example of how they may in fact be in conflict, and of the sort of damage that habitat-generic, long-term climate alteration programs might do to shorter-term, habitat-specific conservation programs.
It's already on there: "Street numbers (and building numbers) don't contain fractions".

A house number is a type of building number.
Here is another one, Spillover, by David Quammen. Apologies for the ugly link.

https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pan...
If only earthquake modelling was so simple as to say you were overdue for an earthquake simply based on accumulated stress. Unfortunately, the Gutenberg-Richter law is not prescriptive, but a time independent statistical observation which assumes independent events, which is why saying you're due for another one is very much like gambler's fallacy. Of course we know that there are underlying physical processes which make means there should be some underlying dependence to be found, and there are attempts at time-dependent models out there, but for our purposes independence works.

If you're interested in the statistics around recurrence times, can I recommend this [1]? It's fairly well written and clear and it deals with this issue fairly comprehensively and directly.

[1] - http://www.crm.cat/en/About/People/Researchers/ACorral/Docum...
VCs are incentivized to see more hard startups start. As a founder, I agree you don't want to be doing it, unless you life goal aligns with it or you are already rich.
Sorry, but for all of Valley's problems, the above characterization couldn't be more wrong. You might be thinking of a part of California east of I-5, but Valley as it pertains to the tech hub couldn't be more pleasant from the climate perspective.
It's easier to parse but what does "hero" actually do? You need to go digging around in all your stylesheets to figure it out and in most cases actually load up the page and inspect it. That overhead is gone in a functional approach.
I think my P100 filters might survive an autoclave. They are the pink disc kind from 3M. Pressure cooking only goes up to 121C @ 15psi, so it isn't as hot as it may seem.
My preparation so far is the same as earthquake preparation - to be sure that I have a supply of food and water for a few days. It seems like a pretty reasonable generic preparation for disaster. I am interested in doing more, but it isn't really clear to me what else would be useful.
I assume letting people return games also inflates reviews. People who can return the game can just do that instead of striking back. If they can return the game, you didn't hurt them.

I know after I got scammed on a "game" whose only gameplay feature was waiting, step one was trying to return it and, when that wasn't allowed, step two was leaving as negative of a review as I could. (Currently listed as "Overall Most Helpful Review" ;D )
http://trafficwaves.org/

Enjoy. The point isn't to modify the behavior of those in front of you, But to keep traffic behind you moving forward even if only slowly.
That thought had occurred to me.

But also: Chip fabs and aircraft manufacturing plants were uncommon circa 10th century. Of any given establishment, odds were good it had something to do with food or hospitality. Survivorship bias, as foodservice is a viable business now as then.

Other options: carpentry (highly skills dependent), blacksmithing, textiles. After 1436, printers. Possibly general merchants. Lists of preindustrial / early industrial occupations are interesting, see:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3832wx/occupat... (19th - 21st centuries)

Several are also listed, with wages/salaries, here: http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html (mediaeval England price list)
Common guys, getting the phrasing right is not rocket appliances.
Oriental Orthodox Churches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches

Are probably the most "Middle Eastern", but apparently they, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism were all the same church until various splits happened, so I'm not sure if you can say any of them are "older".
You got very lucky. Lottery level winning lucky.
Profit margins are terrible compared to regular cigarettes. A pack can be manufactured for $0.06. You have a built in customer base with huge profit margins and massive brand loyalty. While tobacco bought into ecigs, they can't keep up with tech. As soon as smoking is technology, then the brands can be disrupted. Better to kill off vaping.
That makes sense. Yes, children are not factored into the location calculator as this would be very hard to do.

I could imagine that this is even protected information which your employer isn’t allowed to know in some countries.
Even so I'll address some of the issues here

There are holes in your initial assumptions and I won't point them out save to say that a lot of people think the same way you do and that in itself should cause you to reconsider

Finally it's not about imposing a certain style of dress on people but rather than certain other styles of dress won't get you where you're trying to go as a team
The fact that attacker can cause dissociation is separate vulnerability slash wifi design decision. Detecting active attackers doing exactly that is in fact (literal) text book example of what statistical IDS does. The question of what exactly you are going to do if you detect such an attacker is unfortunately another matter.

Edit to add: this vulnerability essentially upgrades a class of well-known DoS attacks against WiFi networks to potential data exfiltration. On the other hand I feel like that intentionally exploiting this combination for data exfiltration by actively causing disassociations is not exactly practical attack, because you are going to cause significant disruption to operation of the network, ie. the target users are just going to give up and complain that the network is broken.
> It's only used to determine it in a way that's divorced from the business context. If everybody understands the business context, that's no longer useful.

That's the point, everyone does not understand the business context. Nor are they expected to. That's the job of the PM it's his main responsibility, and it's the reason PMs are hired to manage teams of developers.
Armanian Orthodox Church (est. 301) predates that slightly (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_the_Illuminator)
Show HN: Pinguiry – Single question polls with single click action responses
Konami Cheat Code Creator Has Died at 61
How does a list of their customers getting leaked equate to all their technology being 'scooped up by state actors'?
Proxying and Intercepting CLI Tools
More specifically, GitHub-hosted open-source alternatives to commercial software.
Today I just bought 2 weeks stock of food for me and my mom. We don’t eat much. (NYC here)
Blanket rejection of juniors is pretty short sighted. Not offering any rejection at all is even worse. If you're not hiring juniors, say so. If you're not hiring juniors and one applies, send a polite response to say "Oh hey, thanks but we're after more senior people, but please try again in a year or so!". There's no good reason for a non-response, and when it's in their handbook and they still don't do it, a big red flag for other candidates.
Ahhh, don't tell all our secrets to the world! "It's not ready yet"
Yesterday's Weather – How to Make the Most of Estimation
what about the P100 filter cartridges used on half/full face respirators? Those have a plastic skeleton with a rubber gasket.
If you get different results, the difference comes from the parts that hadn't changed. So if you were to run the exact same binaries in different environment (different operating system, or same operating system but built or configured differently) and you got different results, you'd be measuring differences between environments.

But that's kind of obvious, so why are you asking this?
You do have a source? I d heard the opposite.
I really like Tailwind's approach in some cases, it does make prototyping extremely fast.

What I'm really missing (and I don't understand it doesn't exist) is a way to compose classes into a single class, to refactor collections of small utility classes into a meaningful class with semantic sense. Why can't I do something like:

.my-class {
use .text-sm
use .text-gray
use .bold
}

Kind of like calling several functions from a single function to compose their effects.

The only things that come to mind are SCSS mixins (but would have to declare the `text-gray` mixin AND the `text-gray` class, plus it doesn't with a lib like tailwind that provides classes), or CSS-in-JS trickery. Styled-component allows this sort of things, but it still doesn't feel very nice to use.

If I've missed something and this is actually possible, please somebody tell me!
I appreciate you sharing your opinion. So, essentially, you don't seem to think that potential cons of approaching VCs with domain knowledge that I mentioned above (inherent "bias" and lack of belief in possibility of certain solutions) outweigh relevant potential pros. Regarding other aspects, I certainly realize VCs' market size and financial upside considerations.
As long as human beings eat, you have potential customers. I think that helps.
Thank you for correcting that. Big difference between the two and people will happily play 'Chinese whispers' with these bits of information leading to a totally different overall picture.

Airborne transmission doesn't require any other medium than the air itself, even dust is optional.
SemWare's QEdit
One type of study I heard about is comparing a large group of pairs of identical twins to a large group of fraternal twins (with each pair being raised together in the same household). The idea is that all the pairs from both groups experienced the same nurture (same parents, location, schooling, etc. at the same time), but one group has nearly identical genes with their twins, while the other merely has varying degrees of similar. If some measured effect is more commonly shared by the identical twins than the fraternal, it's likely due to the genetics rather than environmental factors.

I never took any biology-related courses beyond high school, so I don't have any sort of knowledge to tell if this would actually work in practice, but the idea seems interesting to me.
A few years ago I needed to replace 2 of the 4 casters on my filing cabinet. I lived in China at the time, and bought new casters on Taobao.

The total cost for 5 casters, including delivery, was 35 RMB, equivalent to around 6 USD.
Here's the backstory. Everyone's kids were vaping and parents were freaking out. After all, it was "safe". But after the CDC scare, parents could tell their kids that "vaping is deadly" with a straight face.

It is obviously impossible to prove that this played a role. But anecdotally, I know many very rational people who are surprisingly antivaping -- because kids.
This is such a cool educational tool! I got it to run on repl.it https://repl.it/@amasad/selfie
Regarding the additional question, how often do stationary batteries exist in the wild? Laptops and phones see a lot of jostling and probably some extremes in temperature. I'd imagine the concerns for individual cells may be somewhat universal given the variety of uses we put them to.
> It’s almost certain that Facebook watches your email and sees whom you are contacting. Probably your calendar as well, to see whom you’re meeting with.

What? This is a pretty explosive accusation with very little direct support beyond "they've done things that this is similar to". How would they be able to do this for, say, Gmail and GCal users? I could see it being technically possible, but Google seems pretty likely to both frown on this and be capable of prevention.
[citation needed]

I see this claim is made in the Wikipedia article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)]: "PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms.[6]" but the cited source [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...] does not support this assertion; on the contrary it explains "[NSA] has secretly broken into [...] Yahoo and Google". It certainly doesn't make the stronger claim you seem to suggest here that PRISM is limited to FISA requests.
On the world map, it's distinctly 1962.

1996 seems to be the correct date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Ecuatorial_Airlines
In other news, Vegas' profane, greedy gamblers are shaking up the economy.
> Encryption allows data to be locked away from the government including law enforcement and prosecutors in a way that was nearly impossible for the average citizen a few decades ago.

I know some people do think this, but the opposite is actually true, because of the popular shift from voice to computerized text and images for almost all communications.

A few decades ago, criminals spoke on the phone to coordinate actions. If the police were aware of this in advance, they could tap the phone line and listen in to that conversation. However if they found out about it after the fact, there was no record of the conversation for law enforcement to go get. The sands of time hide information extremely well.

Today, we use mobile devices, and prefer text and image-based communications--email, SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc. Unlike voice conversations of the past, these default to creating a permanent record of the conversation, which police can go get after the fact. Encryption is an attempt to re-establish the privacy and security of these conversations that existed back when they would have been a voice call over analog telephony.

The idea of "going dark"--promoted by law enforcement to fight encryption--is wrong. What has actually happened is that INCREDIBLE BRIGHTNESS of information has developed over the past few decades as all our computerized communications now default to living forever.

Encryption is a tool for trying re-establish the level of "light" (information availability) that our culture and laws came to expect over hundreds of years.
In Sharia law, you need 4 witnesses to prove fornication. Bringing a charge without the evidence subjects the one who brought it to 80 lashes.

Whether or not this applies to rape is a question of debate. However in Pakistan it certainly has been interpreted to so apply. Which means that it is very hard for a woman to prove that she was raped.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud#Requirements_for_convict... for verification.
Thanks for the feedback.

You don't need to embed the git credentials in the site. I just made a login form that takes the gitlab credentials. Gitlab gives you 5 users per project, so you can give several people access.

You're absolutely right that this is not a replacement for a full blown CMS, or for when server side input validation is necessary, or for when different people need different edit rights. I've stayed away from using the term CMS for this reason as it implies that complex content management abilities are required. These "dynamic static" pages only give you full edit rights or not, and you need to build everything manually as it is a static website after all.

I have found this approach useful for hosting a static website for an artist where I wanted the artist to be able to easily update some info on the site. I imagine there are a lot of cases like this where you are building a small static website for someone else who isn't a developer and you want them to be able to update the site themselves later, so they don't have to bother you about it.
The author also seems to really, really want C++ to be Python, despite that they're completely different languages for completely different purposes that make completely different sets of design tradeoffs.

In that respect, the author probably wouldn't be happy with modern C++, either. For example, C++ is never going to be a garbage-collected language (by default, at least). Modern C++ gives you better tools to deal with that, but the core design concerns that make C++ the way it is haven't gone away.
I wonder how different interviews were back then by comparison.
Not sure I follow, admittedly I'm not entirely versed in employment law well enough to know better, but what would be the protected information that precludes a family planning calculation in the salary calculator but not parental leave?

Asked a better way: if, per your Handbook employees who relocate go through a process "to stay aligned with our compensation principlea" and "understand the impact to compensation or your role at GitLab"[0], do new or expectant parents not go through a similar process?

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/code-of-condu...
Is any virus truly airborne?
> CyberRebate

Holey moley, that was a fun rabbit hole

During the dot com bubble of 2000-2001, there was a company where you could buy things online for 10x the normal retail price, but they'd send you a rebate of the price after a couple of months. (And you would keep whatever you'd bought)

Much like every other time someone claimed to make all their profit off of the "float", it turned out to be a big scam

https://www.cnet.com/news/millions-vaporized-in-cyberrebate-...
good, you need to fuck these capitalist hard

i'll attempt something similar in the future
There were many different periods where FreeBSD performed better than Linux under some loads. The same is true in the other direction. Generally speaking, "X performs better than Y" is meaningless without specifying the workload.
You can look at the "legal" aspect of it by Googling "is it legal to scrape". My understanding (IANAL) is that it is OK as long as the user agreement is "opt-out" as opposed to "opt-in" (eg: clicking a consent box before viewing the content). You'll have to read up on this yourself and weigh the risk/reward of doing your project. I (NAFL) would assume the risk is quite small. The reward -- that's your call.

As for the other part, getting the data: it's called scraping. Depending on your experience with scraping, you may need to pay for certain aspects of it (eg, getting a large list of proxies so Reddit does not block you, or using a scraping API). Or maybe your project is small enough (or time constraints large enough) that you can slowly siphon the data via your own means.

As per Reddit allowing it: Refer to the legality of scraping, and apply it to Reddit.
Young children are surprisingly resilient against Coronavirus infections, their mortality is so low that it hardly figures in the stats (on an individual level it is still just as much a tragedy).
Consider this: When facebook came on the scene and made it super easy for developers to publish apps, what happened? A bazillion people all the sudden jumped in and next thing you knew, within less than a year, there were 100K+ apps in the app store. That's because, it was easy to do so, too easy. And this leads to a ton of competition. Now, imagine for a second, it was much harder: let's say only a 100 engineers in the world knew how to do it, then there'd be far fewer apps in the app store and far fewer competition.
This all sounds really good.
The context here is that "the framework" does things 'for' the application it is hosting that the application cannot control, caching various things in memory in a way that makes sense for a browser, but not very much sense for a custom application.

Try this: open a new Chrome instance; look at its memory usage; then load a bunch of tabs (try an Open All on a bookmarks folder), close them all again, and then look at Chrome's memory usage again. It will have increased.

Chrome isn't leaking memory; instead, it is doing the same thing that an Operating System does: weakly reserving memory to optimistically cache stuff, releasing it again if there's enough memory pressure.

This works okay if you only have Chrome itself running. (Even then, its cache fights a bit with the OS page cache. It's certainly no Postgres, intentionally getting the OS page-cache to do its caching for it.) But as soon as you have two separate Chromium instances running (e.g. Chrome itself, plus an Electron app), then each one is going to try to "optimistically" cache as much stuff as it can, until it runs into the memory pressure created by the other instance caching as much stuff as it can, and so each instance will unload just a bit to let the other one cache just a bit more—back and forth—forever. Together, they thrash memory, and it becomes much harder for them to actually accomplish the "weak" part of "weak reservation", instead ending up hoarding all the memory between them.

This is the pretty much the same problem you see if you try to e.g. run two memory-heavy JVM processes (e.g. ElasticSearch) on the same system. Chrome is just one of the few times you'll see this "recapitulation of memory management within the runtime" effect client-side, rather than server-side.
It’s called a “web view” and it already exists in all of the platforms.
> I have a 4 year old and I’m much more concerned about her parents

Isn't that you? :)
Perhaps there's less appeal when parents and other old, boring people have e-cigarettes, with the approval of their doctor.
”Now is the time to be alarmed.”

And this accomplishes what, exactly? Shortages of gloves and canned goods?

Being “alarmed” is not a positive choice, even if your worst-case projections of the future turn out to be true.
Also, it is disgusting breathing the virus laden air that other people have already had inside their gross lungs already. It's like eating someone's food after they have eaten it already.

(Sorry, this is an Asimov reference)
Just leave, it's probably not worth your time anyway. And also why support Bloomberg who is trying to buy an election?