skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"7.5% of adult smokers" in a single year is not "ridiculously low".

Extended over the long term, it suggests over 50% of people quit within 10 years, and nearly 80% within 20 years.

This rings true for myself and most people I know who smoked in their 20s; almost all had quit by their early-mid 30s.

But a motivator also helps - i.e., a real health scare, like a a potentially-lethal virus that everyone is liable to catch and that disproportionately harms people with impaired respiratory health.

So we'd hope (indeed, expect) more people to succeed at quitting during this pandemic. And once they've quit and felt the benefits, many will stay quit for life.
Very cool! Love the introduction of random rulesets!
Organize, search, and archive your email, Web pages, files
Now put the motor on the back end and watch the first gear spinning at the speed of light!

- from youtube Timon Di Mare's comment
Critiques that violent games and movies numb youths simply by exposure and lead them to become violent in real life eventually follow this exact same patterns.
For him, even the single square would not exist, only its many many ways it could be. And each separately.

> "No sólo le costaba comprender que el símbolo genérico perro abarcara tantos individuos dispares de diversos tamaños y diversa forma; le molestaba que el perro de las tres y catorce (visto de perfil) tuviera el mismo nombre que el perro de las tres y cuarto (visto de frente)."

> "Not only he struggled to understand that the generic symbol for dog would encompass so many disparate individuals of many sizes and diverse shapes; he was upset that the dog at three and fourteen (from the side) had the same name that the dog at quarter past three (from the front)."
You're misunderstanding what they're trying to test. They're testing your raw ability to manipulate algorithmic structure in your head. It's important that you have to visualise the data structures and manipulate them without being able to look it up. It's an brainpower test, not a workflow test.
Quoting from the press release, the data exporter must take into account both the contractual clauses AND the surveillance laws of the target country. It is not sufficient to rely on a contract with a US data processor where the US surveillance laws do not make it possible for the recipient to comply with that contract.

> In those circumstances, the Court specifies that the assessment of that level of protection must take into consideration both the contractual clauses agreed between the data exporter established in the EU and the recipient of the transfer established in the third country concerned and, as regards any access by the public authorities of that third country to the data transferred, the relevant aspects of the legal system of that third country.

> [...] that
decision imposes an obligation on a data exporter and the recipient of the data to verify, prior to any transfer, whether that level of protection is respected in the third country concerned and that the decision requires the recipient to inform the data exporter of any inability to comply with the standard data protection clauses, the latter then being, in turn, obliged to suspend the transfer of data and/or to terminate the contract with the former.
not the guy you are replying to but a bit of a similar experience so I can answer from my perspective. I went sort-of keto + fasting (inspired by Dr. Jason Fung, primarily for weightloss but with the side effect of having better bowels after 2-3 months of adjustment to the high-fat moderate-protein low-carb diet.
That was the point really. Was trying to post objectively, tbh. Didn't realise it might be seen as snarky, or anything of the like. I really did wonder what it might mean, if Trump's Twitter account was subject to extra protection.

If that's proven to be the case, that in itself is quite a big issue. Biden, as a leading political rival absolutely should have a right to similar protections if they exist.

Indeed, as a democracy, anyone should have access to the same level of protection. Or at the very least, all verified accounts.
So what DID we achieve 20 years ago? Like, what happened then that led to the claim of "human genome has been sequenced" and what is the additional progress that was made now?
It seems like the devs at Twitter are clueless, how this happened.

The hackers could be deep in Twitters systems, eventually even have even someone working at Twitter, or it's a result of a new yet unknown password list or phishing attempt.
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The problem is that people are dependent on employment by a single party and finding a new employer is not automatic, which creates a huge non-diversified risk and creates abusive dynamics.

The solution is to make it easy, normal and automatic to either find new jobs, be a contractor for many parties, or be unemployed, living on UBI/rent/self-production and not dependent on finding work.

Monogamous relationships have the same problems and the same solutions (easy serial monogamy, non-monogamy, or being content being in a relationship with oneself).
What is the solution though? I believe that the main reason for these problems are population explosion.
The CPU of the supercomputer “K computer” is on display at Oliospec
Sorry couldn't find anything, I must not have saved as much as I thought
>This is bad news for everyone in the EU who has data in the US and uses the Privacy Shield act as the protection guarantee.

This ruling was in no way surprising, though. Anyone doing due diligence should have easily seen that Privacy Shield was going to be struck down by the CJEU eventually.
I think you are off the mark and reposted an article explaining how the spec should be interpreted [0].

If the spec had added auth, authz, e2ee and such, then it had been overengineered. They were left out intentionally because of the complexity involved in decentralized environments. Something a bunch of other specs-in-the-making are struggling with for years. And things that may be adopted in vNext versions of AP.

There is nothing as far as I know that precludes AP from being used in pure p2p applications, other than that p2p software in general knows more challenges than federated ones.

And the spec is written such that any dev can treat the message format as plain JSON. They only need to add a fixed @context property, so it can be processed as JSON-LD by those who want to use the additional power that offers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857644
> It's easy to do, just don't do business with the US at all.

That's amusing of course because the EU economy is desperately dependent on the US economy. Meanwhile the US economy is far less dependent on the EU economy.

So the plan then must be to do zero business with the US and Chinese economies, the world's two largest. You also can't do business with Canada, Australia or Britain, so there went another $5.7 trillion in economy you can no longer trade with.

The EU would be sent back to third-world living standards within a decade or two. You just lost access to 50% of the world economy. Easy to do, yeah sure.
We often see the "don't roll your own crypto", and of course, in a production setting that's obligatory advice. I think that it's a valuable exercise for anyone to implement some of the algorithms and protocols, just to understand the complexity within. I did that for a minimal TLS1.2 implementation, just because, and it was a valuable exercise. Do you see any value in changing the slant you put on "don't try this at home"?
Agree. I think my statement of "within the European Union" is indeed a bit too restrictive. Your comment is indeed pointing the right thing: enforceable and equivalent protection. That is exactly what Privacy Shield and the predecessor was aiming for.
>>> It's still unclear to me whether this particular failure mode is common enough

It is very common. Had the same thing happen in my company last year, on multiple systems! The organization was reaching a decade old, nobody thought of that when the table were initially created.
What does this mean? Are Computer scientists developing technology?

All technology is a science, i think you are trying to draw is the distinction between fundamental science that discovers laws of nature, and indutrial kind that figures out the best process for manufacturing stainless steel.

>> "Often times technology precedes the science,"
This can happen by freak accident, but generally science has to find and researched some law of nature before you can take advantage of it to develop some product or manufacturing process.
The bar for "good enough" can of course be quite high.

If you're hiring people at the very top or with rare skillsets, like building browser engines, building databases or people whose skill is at author/contributor level to relevant technology (for the job in question), you're probably not going to go with the usual process anyway as there is less uncertainty.
don't hate the player, hate the game. easier to tweak personal actions to address the world as it is than to rant against how the world doesn't work per your ideals. at least this guy is self aware enough to admit there is some amount of bullshit in what he says. I am more concerned with people who refuse to admit this, or worse, genuinely don't believe it.
In the US we’re nowhere near running out of space.
I live in one of the most wealthy and densest areas in the US and like to go up to the roof of the building. When I look out it’s pretty much just trees with some 1-3 story buildings and lots of parking lots with occasional clusters of high density buildings like the one I live in. 30-60 miles south of here it’s almost completely undeveloped nothingness (some farms and gas stations but mostly forest.) The rest of the entire state (Save a few small cities) is like that too.

That so many people in the US can’t afford housing is a spectacular social failure. It feels similar to California’s water problem; yes it’s possible to run out of the resource but if you actually look at how it’s used it’s just very very poorly allocated.
Vaguely plausible excuses will not dissuade prosecutors in possession of contrary evidence.
Maybe you're thinkinng of the actual proportion value. 99% can more simply be written as 0.99, which is two nines after the true decimal point.
It's been pretty much standard practice on many social media for years.

My problem with it is how it's not acknowledged.
>>I have no idea why they matter at all in the computer science industry.

What is the computer science "industry"? To the extent that such a thing exists, I suppose you are talking about people who have directly made money by creating software (Chamath), or invested in companies which made money (Naval and Balaji). How can any industry exist if no money is ever made?

And whom do you propose people follow instead? :-)
I don't think it's that complex. I think they're just cargo-culting. Technical interviews were designed to test certain things (brainpower, grasp of fundamental data structures) and not other things (workflow, ability to write out large volumes of trivial code). I think companies just copy that and don't realise what they're really testing for.
Microplastics generated by road traffic end up in the Arctic
Used to eat out for lunch most days (felt like middle-of-the-road options, maybe rarely fast food) and now mostly eat sandwiches with lean meat (and homemade levain bread, the parallel comment on fodmaps intrigued me around this line).

We used to cook I would say 5/6 dinner meals a week but it’s strictly 7 now. Not too much change there, not intentional anyways. Maybe less snacking too but the only big intentional change has been the eating out.
Aerobic training is all about the heart rate. You have to get it up to around 120 or higher (and keep it there for a while) to have a training effect. Unless you are REALLY unfit, walking is probably not enough.

You can also run/walk in intervals as long as you keep the heart rate up. If you want to get fit, a heart rate monitor is a great investment (something like a polar h10 can pair with your smartphone).
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Microsoft Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs
They did the Microsoft thing and misused a word to confuse people.

A Discord server is more or less a chat room on the Discord service.
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So it does lose the likes and retweets of the tweets after the edited tweet?
Asking you to visualise & manipulate a novel data structure you don't have practice with is a feature, not a bug. It's a specialised IQ test.
There are many YouTube tours and breakdowns of freighter passenger trips.
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This is a real solution to a real (maybe exaggerated?) problem, but I'm curious to see how people in general would accept it, because the solution is associated with the Left, and the problem is associated with the Right. It's clever framing, and the benefits would reach far beyond the issue of cancel culture, but I doubt D's or R's as groups would seriously consider it. Hope I'm wrong.
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Everybody knows what the solution is. There is no lack of solutions. There is a lack of courage to implement them.

While population may be a concern, it's not the main problem.

> The richest 10% of people in the world are responsible for around 50% of global emissions

https://oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-pub...
Nice work dude!!
Fusion also isn't possible right now of course.
> They want to control other people by means of intimidation (force people out for having a difference in opinion) via economic peer pressure.

I would argue that the nebulous they want people to face consequences for the things they say.
I think you're more correct than this article. I read the first few sentences of the article and thought .. if employment was not at will,job interviews would be next to impossible.
I have a ThinkPad x250 and wireless works, but just at 50Mbit speed :(
I have used this app many times. Love it to post larger content to Twitter which had way more value then just a link to a blog post for example. I think it provides a lot of value to Twitter. Thanks for building it!
Credit Repair ( Hack)
Not all negative items on your credit report could be accurate. If bad debt is hurting your credit score, asking for validation from credit reporting agencies can help. Every consumer is protected under the consumer credit laws both nationally and statewide. Gaining access for free or for a fee to your credit report can be an asset before you rent a home. Items can be disputing when requested and must be validated or removed after credit reporting agency review. The only down side about hiring the credit companies might take up to 8 months just to delete 1 item and that is why most/some people revert to hiring Programmers/Hackers. It is proven they have loop holes of clearing debt and adding trade-line to your CS which will in-turn give your credit score a drastic boost.
You can go on CK forum, Har forum ( using Tor Browser ) and you will find tons of them listing their services. Sniffingnose AT RepairmanDOTcom was one of the programmers I found with 87% review on credit score repair. It literally took 11 days for my score to go from 430 - 690 and there is nothing to complain about that even if it was an expensive process.
I highly recommend hiring a programmer from these forums as it will help you alot .
Isn't the point of vpns (from the operator pov) to concentrate sketchy traffic to make it easier to monitor?
Nothing says there isn’t. I was shocked when I heard vscode had telemetry even though it was open source and now I’m not sure I want to use any other open source stuff that comes from that company. Especially a compiler.
Depending on the region, "I don't drink beer" can sound a bit snobbish (as in "I only drink wine and champaign"). Other than that I've never heard anything bad when I ordered Apfelschorle (apple juice + carbonated water mix). And I think "Alkoholfreies Weizen" would even be accepted among very beer-centred groups.

One cultural difference between Germany and the states is, that drunk-driving is much more actively shunned so its more acceptable to not drink.
More data as well, considering they can use browsing data from the internet connection itself to influence ad targeting even when browsing non-Facebook properties.
> People really have to watch what Urbit is doing and understand why.

Even though Urbit is trying its best to prevent that?
That doesn’t seem to be what it’s saying. Wording is unclear, but it seems to be saying that _for the incidents recounted in these updates_, most of the time the GitHub service itself will be 99% available. That’s not the same as saying they only strive to make GitHub 99% available at all times.
Yep I do bodyweight with sonny boy.
> On the positive side this might give startups based in the EU a small edge over US competitors (I know, protectionism is evil, free market rules, Europe tech startups are not competitive...)

Most of these regulations are just anti-US protectionism in disguise. Regardless of the underlying merits of any such regulation, they’re used as trade barriers to give EU companies an edge over US ones, without doing anything as controversial as tariffs. I mean is there any material difference for a German citizen if their surveilled French intelligence over US intelligence? Sure, they have the EU courts to rely on, but if you’re caught up in a foreign (or even domestic) surveillance dragnet the outcome is going to be exactly the same, and there’s nothing you can do about it. All these agencies share huge amounts of data anyway, so the difference becomes quite academic.

> US companies can still do business in the EU btw, they will just need to structure their services so that data from EU citizens stays within the EU

I’d suggest people look at all of the privacy enforcement action in the EU, and ask themselves whether they think the actual outcome is protecting the privacy interest of EU citizens, or just the economic interests of member states.
According to Wikipedia (which I consulted because I know nothing at all about this), starter also contains lactobacilli .

> The lactic acid produced by the lactobacilli gives it a more sour taste and improved keeping qualities.
> By law, the power network is listed online to combat climate change and pollution.

Which law is that?
As someone who has tried to implement ActivityPub (for my personal site), I think the negativity is largely justified.

In my opinion, ActivityPub is way too complicated, and federating is just too hard to do for smaller projects. You mention that there are many new projects – this has been the case for a while. Last time I looked, nearly all of them had failed/stopped/paused before actually getting federation working. The test suite is down, and has been for at least a year:

https://test.activitypub.rocks

I think that ActivityPub should have started out far simpler, and it should have been in reach of hobbyist developers. Something probably closer to RSS, with verify-from-source rather than cryptographically signed posts.

Just my experience, obviously. I would love to be able to write and run my own little Twitter-like instance that people can subscribe to, but I can't because ActivityPub was too difficult for me to get working.
Beautiful fire hazard and single point of failure as well. Such a mess of wires would most likely cause major outages if it were to burn down.
It's difficult to remove that randomness from the process. As I see it the only reliable approach for both sides, given that structure, is volume - you just do/conduct a lot of interviews and evaluate/get evaluated on the top percentile.
Thank you! I'm also glad that I've managed to give you a satisfying answer.

How should I credit you in the book's Hall of Fame?
Does it have ublock and/or noscript addons?
> if I'm understanding Mastodon right

You are not understanding Mastodon right. This makes me think about whether it's my obligation to educate you or your obligation to not post opinions on something you don't understand well enough.
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They probably just attach a junction/amplifier as needed, directly to the grid.
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Oh this looks very interesting.
Stashing files–let's say that each file is one second long and is just numbered with the unix timestamp – makes things cost effective because now the server is just dropping files no 1,2,3,4... into a directory, and everyone is pulling them out in sequence the way an other file would be downloaded. This also allows exploiting the HTTP architecture – if you set the Cache-Control: public headers on the files (which you can do happily because they'll never change) they'll be cached at lots of places along the way, like CDNs, the local ISP, the office network, etc. HTTPS blew out most of these caching benefits, but at least the CDNs can cache the files at edges all over the world.
This is not a consumer product at this point. It's for hackers, by hackers.
After you pointed this out I think I realized the target market - A tool to build a platform for the rising live stream direct sales model.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-viya-china-livestrea...
shouldn't electron UI then eat up much of the battery gains made from the modem code?
I switched from Chrome for Edge's native integration with Windows credentialing and Office 365. In a corporate environment that relies heavily on Windows and the Office suite, it really works very well. Its elegant account management between personal and work instances is also fantastic.
If you’re a fan of crypto for its independence and decentralisation, you aren’t going to be storing your coins on coinbase. You will store them on your own hardware.

Moving coins between wallets is simple, it would not be possible to simply block an address to prevent cashing out.
I use an 0.3 l (like 10-11 fl oz) glass bottle that works just as well for rinsing with water.
>I'm curious 1) in what way you think the quote isn't representative of the president's tweet? 2) how you would distill the tweet into one sentence if you were asked to summarize it for an article?

Regarding

1)

The first half of Trump's message was omitted, dropping the context that (if you refer to congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar) Mexico and Somalia are objectively societies permeated by crime and corruption.

Solely the emotionally charged bits were quoted by the author, therefore distorting the message.

2)

USAtoday did a relatively unemotional job of this:

"President Donald Trump’s opponents accused him of xenophobia and racism Sunday after he posted tweets calling on an unspecified group of Democratic congresswomen to “go back and help fix” the countries he said they “originally came” from before trying to make legislative changes in the USA."[1]

[1]https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/14/trump...

For a while now The Economist has not been suspect of being an objective source of reporting when it comes to political subjects and issues. Just like The Guardian or the BBC, they live on the remains of a good reputation from former days.