skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very tired point I see very often when discussing the morality of people who provide value to society.

If Juul's service was solely and specifically helping people get off cigarettes, great. It's not though, is it? They sell nicotine to minors. If they cared about doing good, they would simply not sell nicotine to minors. By this judgement I can group the executives at Juul into villians and not be 'reductive' about it, because it's very clear they make profit off of evil when they don't have to.

I'd also not like to see the argument that they aren't technically 'selling' juuls too minors. We're way past that point; it's super obvious the advertising is made up in such a way as to facilitate profits from minors. Just because it goes through a 3rd party doesn't eliminate blame from Juul, who remember have taken no steps to prevent children from smoking them.
Let's say this thing costs $200 per person, so $100k per party. Let's say he does this every day (or throws a 3.5x as lavish party twice a week), that's $36.5M per year. He can do this for 10 years and it will still literally be a rounding error in his wealth.
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I don't follow -- how did they cause more harm to existing smokers? Are you saying that a Juul is more dangerous (or even equally as dangerous) as smoking -- or that there's evidence that nicotine in and of itself is harmful? I don't think either has evidence to suggest it's true.
Why and How We Should Calculate Expected Utility of Refactorings
Dr. Craig Smith's letter from today
I'm okay with scrutiny and oversight as you suggested to prevent fraud from related party transactions, but what's wrong with someone's children getting connections with the charity?

One of the reasons I'm working hard and saving money is to provide my family with better opportunities than I had. To say I'm not allowed to better the lives of my family is to deprive me of rights and freedoms to do what I want with what I create.
I believe they may have used something on the lines of genetic-programming to create this equation - not sure about the high precision constants. The search space is compute intensive. Many years back, I used that technique to generate a profitable strategy. These things work and are different depending on the timeframe/sampling, stock, trend and money management.
The only way to be sure is to randomly take either the real preparation or some placebo that looks, tastes, smells etc. exactly the same so you can’t tell the difference. The placebo effect does not require you to believe in the cure.
TikTok is winning at making random people famous. It’s not really about friends and celebrities as much as Instagram. It’s also picking up from Vine on surfacing short videos that are super addicting to watch. Twitter really killed a golden goose with Vine.
When the real need for a stop is not obvious too many drivers will do a rolling stop anyway.
What is the one in particular?
MUTCD == the (American) Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, it was intended to demonstrate what I was talking about.

If you add multiple (large) signs ahead of the actual control device, you'll have higher compliance, since the unusual sign doesn't appear out of the blue.
Yes, FB has a similar system.
> Microsoft threw billions at it with Bing and still never became more than an also-ran. The only place that seems to have a real chance is DuckDuckGo, and I'd be very interested to see how their story has played out up to this point.

That's an interesting perspective when you consider that:

1. Bing has at least 5x the market share of DuckDuckGo in the US (and even higher worldwide)

2. DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its main source of search results.
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There is a difference between the other companies you listed and Juul.

Juul does not have great people working for it, and the marketing was intentionally dishonest towards the most vulnerable in our society.

None of those other companies specifically target kids with advertising and subversive grassroots efforts to try to get them hooked on drugs.
It depends on the country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Recommendati...

Oversimplifying, it is recommended for people with more than 65(50) years, people with chronic diseases or HIV, and pregnant women and babies from 6 month to 5(2) years. Also people that work or live with them. But each country has it's own rules and recommendations.
It's both isn't? In pill form it's a vitamin... from the sun it's a hormone
Remember vine?

Arguably a nicer 2.0.

Super addicting.
I started using this today. It's good so far. I can now stop spinning up swagger editor in a container and work with this. Going to switch over to this fully since I was already using Insomnia.
This is actually very true. There are lots of potential treatments that use generic and non-patentable agents, and very few people are willing to look into it. Zinc is the classic example; some people think it maybe reduces the duration of the common cold. The common cold is one of the main causes of missed workdays. If there's a drug that could make you miss 4 days of work a year instead of 5 days of work a year, it would be worth billions. But nobody is funding studies on zinc, because nobody will be able to capture that saved revenue for themselves. (Zicam did try this; by patenting a nasal administration method and then doing controlled studies with that. If the results were good, then they'd say "it doesn't apply to oral zinc, it only applies to our applicator", and they could have their money. As it turned out, it caused people to permanently lose their sense of smell. I think it helped with their colds, though.)
If Elon were truly focused on getting to Mars he would put more effort into robotics, agriculture/hydroponics, non-solar power generation and other things that would actually matter for a Martian mission, rather than wasting his money[1] into PR stunts like Boring Co which still haven't done anything that other boring companies have been doing for decades at bigger scale in far more complicated terrains and situations.

It would be better for example if the Model Y wouldn't be manufactured with lots of errors that QA should have caught, but that's also secondary to getting self driving, which is an extremely hard problem.

Tesla's inability to handle basic QA of their primary business activity nearly killed the company and doesn't speak well of their ability to properly QA something infinitely more complex like self-driving, especially when they've chosen to limit the available hardware.

[1] Boring Co is actually primarily financed by Tesla, and uses Tesla and SpaceX supplies and equipment, so Elon's not even investing his own money. He's investing other people's money and running.
The tobacco company formerly known as Philip Morris. (Altria)
It doesn't really matter if an addiction kills you or not, the question is whether the dependency is strong enough to take away from other activities in your life.
Decline of acute coronary syndrome admissions in Austria since the outbreak
Maybe explaining to the user the implications of controlling TextEdit? How scope is expanding? Just thinking out loud here.
Its from Accounting assets = liabilities + equity. So equity = a-l. If you pay cash your assets go down so your equity goes down. If you give away equity your equity goes down. In either case you equity goes down.
As someone who hasn’t followed, and I understand I’m asking a random internet user this and not a scientist, but what is the definition of ‘prolonged exposure?’ Are people who contract the disease less likely to die that someone who is in close contact for a prolonged period of time? How long is that period? 15 minutes? Two hours?
The most surprising thing here is that they had that many employees to begin with.
Flappy Bird created in one hour using Python and Pygame (timelapse)
> that adults like

An argument can be made that physically addictive substances violate a person's agency.

That is to say, it's not that many adults "like" it; it's that many adults are unable to part ways from it.
This is a disservice to all students.

In business excuses is the standard MO. Look at all the business men and women out there. It's about failing quickly and often.

I hope he changed his tune later in life because he was hurting so many students for no good reason.
I've always thought it was sorta ridiculous that the venn diagram of people screaming at the government over the handling of the coronavirus and the people who want to nationalise industry is nearly a perfect circle.
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I'm guessing this is about Code Review comments?

I always assume my comments on others' PRs (and other people's comments on my Code Reviews) are "suggestions (non-blocking)", unless indicated otherwise. Shouldn't that be the default, really?
A python dependency is unfortunately out of the question for me, but that is a really cool project.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think self-negotiation here means: when I put my dishes away after dinner, I attempt to negotiate with myself if I have to do it right now. A habit instead terminates this attempt at negotiating and gets you to just do it without thinking if you should or shouldn't.
> If you look the preliminary Q1 results of Virtu Financial [0] (only publicly traded HFT) they seem to be doing more trading than ever in these volatile markets.

Similar story from Flow Traders:

https://www.flowtraders.com/sites/flow-traders/files/quarter...
I think the example still works because, while it is not too complicated to understand, it is also non-trivial. It's also probably more complicated than the typical non-technical person would think.

It's also worth mentioning that this diagram doesn't capture dataflow or the relationships between the subsystems needed to make this work. The logic for notifications requires interaction with user preferences, channel membership, comment parsing, thread management, and more[0].

All told, you may still be looking at (low) thousands of lines of code, with maybe 1.5-2x times that amount for test code.

[0] I'm just guessing how the app is structured internally. I have no idea what it is actually like.
All part of the plan following their acquisition by Altria (Phillip Morris). Altria already had the IQOS in development and the vape companies were eating into their customer base. By purchasing Juul Altria could publicly act as a vaping proponent while working behind the scenes to maintain Big Tobacco’s control over nicotine. Small, bathtub style operations locally cranking out custom vape juice flavors had to be shuttered. Enter the rash of negative press surrounding vaping and government intervention in the market (vitamin E acetate as the carrier for illicit THC and CBD vape juice was the ultimate culprit, not “e-cigarettes”). The small operations are not able to afford the expensive licensing required for each flavor, and states really aren’t interested in giving up the future money from Big Tobacco, against which they’ve issued bonds. This is a long play made by Altria, and watching it come to fruition has been amazing.
60+ NYC MTA employees have died from Covid. Are we thinking that this happened because they had high viral loads?
Because we can't effectively model the behavior of human tissue in software.
You allow the user's machine to obtain a valid certificate for a subdomain of lynk.sh? (This would seem to me the only way to accomplish E2EE, given the example of connecting over TLS to a lynk.sh host, and it also seems very unlikely.)
I wanted to like this, but I couldn't get passed the awful landing page.

It brought my phone to crawl. Moving wireframes in the background would have been distracting at the best of times, let alone on an older phone.

It gives me the impression they value style over function, which is a huge turn off for me.
The problem with less getting done is that it applies to all levels of government. Want to change your yard landscaping? Nope! Not when your neighbors, town, county, and state all have to separately approve it.
They targeted them at young adults -- it turns out that kids in high school typically emulate college kids. Who knew? Go to any college bar and you'll see kids -- naive children -- smoking outside. A lot of those kids use Juuls instead now.

If targeting that demographic inherently means that highschoolers will look at them and think they're cool, does that mean nobody should ever target that demographic? Harm reduction only applies to the 30+ crowd?

edit: I also don't think that it's really fair to say that they advertised towards children. The worst they did was push some colorful and fruity flavors. I guess only children like sweet things, and once you turn 18 you can no longer like mangoes?
Of his current wealth on paper, yes.

But almost all of Elon's wealth is in the form of his stock holdings, and stocks fluctuate in price. Moreover, his cash is almost all leveraged from his stock, and if the price collapses again, he could be wiped out by the margin call.
Seriously? We're going to blame old people for not wanting to live in poverty while the heights of the economy sequester trillions of dollars in a power law curve?
Good point, it does look like there's enough room for one too.
That little? So my four hours of tennis a week in the hot Greek sun is much more than enough, even with sunscreen on.
Beaches closed. Parks closed. Hikes closed. Stay inside and deprive the rest of your vitamin D.
Ooh, sweet non sequitur.
Absolutely true for the web interface if loaded from https://webwormhole.io. I'm open for any more suggestions here! https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole/issues/13

Someone mentioned the command line client. One can also build and serve the html/js/wasm from anywhere and it should still work, even with the same signalling server. It has pretty lax CORS for this reason.
That is why I said most, not all. There are also things like intercooler.js (https://intercoolerjs.org/) which provides a nice middle ground.
And if you don't break it, then eventually Websters will add it to the dictionary and you'll have been right the whole time.
One of those chat apps was already enormously successful and then Facebook just bought it. The other was a natural outgrowth of Facebook.com being a successful social network, you may as well claim that Instagram is also a successful chat app.
The tobacco industry has repeatedly demonstrated it's willingness to break the law and market their bullshit to kids.

Edit:

> Internal documents produced to the court in Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, San Francisco County Superior Court No. 959516, demonstrated the industry's interest in targeting children as future smokers.[6] The importance of the youth market was illustrated in a 1974 presentation by RJR's Vice-President of Marketing who explained that the "young adult market ... represent[s] tomorrow's cigarette business. As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume - for at least the next 25 years."[7]

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

Anybody who thinks tobacco companies have turned over a new leaf is an idiot.
> A3C is known to not be suitable for adversarial environments

Interesting! What are the main papers in this area?

Any intuition why this is the case? is it because A2C generally results in brittle policies?
Several of them did that recently.
If this has been suggested for some time it would be kind of odd that only one study has noticed the connection; this seems rather easy to test, right?
There is a 0% chance of me returning back to regular life until I feel safe, no matter what politicians say.

I think the advocates for reopening the economy vastly overestimate the ability for political leaders to do that via dictat.
Or periodic woodworking accident.
Thanks for putting this together, Pablo. Super insightful!
Disagree: if most people can't write, then giving them a template that allows them to express themselves efficiently is an excellent idea.
Caffeine is relatively benign compared to nicotine. Nicotine poisoning[1] really is a thing. Also, the LD50 dosage of caffeine is ~150-200mg/kg while for nicotine it’s in the range of 0.5-1mg/kg and for children it’s much lower, at 0.1mg/kg. Given these numbers, nicotine is a far mor pernicious substance than caffeine.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning
Not true; if the conditional branch goes backward then it's a (possibly do-) while statement. Also subroutine calls.
Not enough information but maybe this can help: If the "non technical guy" ends up marketing and bringing in all or most of the paying customers, or handling all the bureaucracy, or managing staff, etc, then he might think the same about the "technical guy".
by a long shot, too.
It's been allowed if there was an affordable housing element.
This surprised me. I think that most HN readers use Mac OS, followed by Linux, with Windows being used by a minority. It would be interesting to see some HN website stats. Do you have any metrics?
By default, the avatar grays out eventually if you don't interact with your computer, but otherwise is static. You can optionally instruct Pragli to use local facial recognition to move when you move and smile when you smile. Some users really like it and it looks more lively in demos, but FWIW the strong majority of our users are on keyboard/mouse. Here's a blog post I did a while ago about the facial recognition mode: https://pragli.com/blog/live-avatars-with-faceapi-js/
> What exactly has he "turned to gold"?

You wrote him off way too easily.

In my life I have not seen -

1. Two rockets landing simultaneously

2. An electric car that can take off like a plane, and self-drive on free ways
It shouldn't be legal to market tobacco products at all. Juul knowingly and deliberately marketing to kids is further proof of that, as if any more were needed.

> They targeted them at young adults

This is literally the same bullshit the same industry was spewing when they were advertising their cigarettes with cartoon characters (e.g. the cartoon camel.)
Close the roads. Reclaim the parking lots. Put restaurants outside
https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/youth-and-tobacco/youth...

Buried but smoking cigarettes was trending down for years then e-cigs, mostly Juul, caused it to skyrocket
> it seems to me that U.S. public sentiment has been shifting against the lockdowns recently - and not just among some fringe protester groups, but among all kinds of demographically and ideologically different groups

Nope, ending the lockdowns is not a popular movement.

More than twice as many people believe they don't go far enough as believe they go too far.[1]

"Only 12% of Americans say the measures where they live go too far. About twice as many people, 26%, believe the limits don’t go far enough. The majority of Americans — 61% — feel the steps taken by government officials to prevent infections of COVID-19 in their area are about right."

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/22/outbreak-poll-most-am...
Same compound.

The definition of vitamin includes the inability of the organism to synthesize it itself, so vitamin D can’t be an actual vitamin
Theres an important security tradeoff here. Compress then encrypt leaves you vulnerable to attacks like CRIME[1]. How much this matters depends on the application.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how...
That is incorrect. Nicotine itself is harmful.

While it is true tobacco smoke contains many carcinogens and toxins that are the likely sources of many cancers, there is evidence that nicotine itself promotes tumor growth and proliferation.

Nicotine also accelerates atherosclerosis and vascular disease.
Why not generate the QR code client-side?

Folks that care about P2P want to see zero HTTP requests to your server after loading the basic resources.
I'm quite confused - how were shares exercised into stock before they vested?

Aside from that weirdness a share in a company is yours and I'm quite skeptical you could be forced to sell it back to the company - what _is_ common is that the grantor will reserve the right of first purchase. If you decide to sell your vested and exercised options to a third party (say a random friend) you cannot legally transact that without first offering the companies the ability to purchase it at the price of their choosing.

The result of this is that vested and exercised shares are usually a terrible idea in nearly every scenario - except when that action might result in some tax benefits from long term investment[1].

1. Some jurisdictions waive capital gains taxes on sales of stock if the shares were held for a "long" time usually several years.
Interesting metrics.

Indicator 1 (cases) and 2 (hospitalization) are clearly met.

Indicator 3 (test capacity) has a very aggressive target. 200 tests a day per 100k? Why must it be this high? (Germany by comparison, opening schools now, is at 80 per 100k). Santa Clara County is already at a 3% positive rate week to date (Korea level during their Feb epidemic)

Indicator 4 (case investigation) status is not disclosed but I would guess is met or close to met in Santa Clara county given how steep the drop-off has been in cases and confirmation by other counties (Contra Costa). Of course, it gets harder to contact trace as you ease restrictions.

Indicator 5 is a bit fuzzy - supply under what hospitalization assumptions?
Keynes, to my knowledge, never had children. The future for one's offspring definitely extends one's field of cares to give, in my opinion.
Where do you draw the line? Would you classify anyone who worked at Facebook somebody you don't need to work with?

What about Uber, Google, AirBnb, Amazon, Amazon subsidiaries?

How are you going to convince others that they should pass on those too based on your particular ethical code?
They're the only major brand that allows smokers to easily get mega doses of nicotine. It isn't much of a quitting aid if it only strengthens the addiction.
So they file a 1040 instead of a W2.
Nicotine doesn't cause chronic disease, though. It's the tar and other toxins that cause the majority of negative effects from smoking.
What kills smokers is smoking and damaging your lungs.
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It would be better if you countered the statistical method used in the analysis. Otherwise your point is no better than someone saying "Soros donated to this think tank, therefore invalid".
Why would a government shutdown impact Boeing? I mean people fly less, but that's a few months, how many planes will not be replaced because they're getting 2 months less use?

Unless you're counting the crashes that won't happen because of the shutdown, of course.
There is a bit of confusion because macOS has two sandboxes: app store app isolation and permissions and file system isolation. Think of the latter as everything on the file system except /Users and a few other cherry picked directories being mounted from a read-only CD-ROM.