skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what nicotine treatment is for.

If someone has already broken the nicotine addiction, why would they need to smoke non-nicotine?

These things seem to have none of the benefits of cigarettes.
I saw a Steve Mould video on this recently.
https://youtu.be/rEoc0YoALt0

The guy who used it seems to imply his version had a bit of 'special sauce'
Are other countries even allowing US citizens in right now? It was my understanding that we’re pretty much banned from the rest of the world due to our batshit insane Covid response.
I once had my home swept for radioactive materials (long story). After the inspectors finished a few hours of trying to distinguish a few Geiger counter clicks from the natural background, the lead tech pulled a small orange Fiestaware bowl out of his bag. "Did you know these are hot?" he asked, and put it up next to the wand. The Geiger counter just screamed, which was both alarming and reassuring given the context.
Sorry he won't webcast. Americans can buy tickets and go to his country if they wish to be among smart peers.
The effects of caffeine on the body- simple guide 2020
> They've got an army of staff that do nothing but write stock replies, print and sign documents with stamps and mail them back to constituents.

While this is certainly true and billionaires have far more sway than a random citizen, I don't think it's quite as dire as you say. I've heard from multiple people who work in politics that letters like these are tracked by the staff and the tallies considered by the representative. Which all makes some sense because for every person motivated to write a letter there are likely hundreds or thousands who feel the same but didn't bother to write.

I wouldn't spend a bunch of time writing a finely crafted letter, but a short personal note sent to a Congressperson is very quick process and has some chance of mattering. I've done this a handful of times and there's usually a form on their website that makes it all quite easy.

Citizen letters aren't going to counteract major lobbyists, but a lot of issues that Congress handles don't really have entrenched financial interests on either side. It's in an elected reps self interest to keep their constituents happy and scoring some easy wins in response to citizen complaints is well within their wheelhouse.
And yet Japan has the second-longest life expectancy in the world. The "we need open borders or we'll end up like Japan" argument just doesn't seem very strong when Japan does well in most quality-of-life metrics.
We want smart people here in the US

Agreed. But ~90% of all permanent residencies approved have nothing to do with education or employment. It's just family reunification.
That is correct. Same for iCloud backup on iPhones.
That stuff went off like a depth-charge in my brain. The idea that it would only become possible for humans to be treated as property once they were wrenched from their community and severed from their social context is profound. Amazing, amazing book.
It was almost nothing aside from the shortness of breath, although the loss of smell was distressing. Very mild soreness, minor weird and unproductive cough. The shortness of breath was unlike any sickness I've ever had and got me to go to the emergency room when I was scared of passing out. By the time I got there (30+ min; had to get picked up) my o2 was in the low 90s which is not much cause for concern.

The trick of it is that if breathing difficulty is the only symptom, it's very difficult to diagnose. You breathe faster and your heart beats faster to keep your o2 at 98+. In the emergency room there's no way to tell me (50% breathing capacity, 94 o2 sat, 120 bpm) from someone scared about losing their sense of smell (98 o2, 120 bpm, 100% breathing). The only way to actually distinguish is the amount of scarring on a CT scan (which is very rough, varies person to person, and really needs a prior CT) or a diffusion test, which requires the person to be well enough to breathe into a big machine for 15 or so minutes.

Since so few people have gotten such a workup, AFAIK there's no real sense of how severe the normal infection is. I would guess myself to be in the 80-95th percentile for unluckiness at my age. If the impact on my breathing had been just a bit better, I think I would have just acclimated to the new normal and called it a lingering cough. The "sick"-like effects were so mild that I would have otherwise guessed it was unrelated. Then again I'm prone to ignore stuff like that.

I deeply hope doctors keep a close eye on how the average person's lungs are affected in terms of gas exchange and scarring. Even if you don't notice a change, good breathing habits can help reduce arterial pressure and reduce strain on your heart.
Actually, it seems I was wrong. I thought it was just UVA, but uvb also causes melanoma.

I’d delete the above comment if I could. The main point that you can get vitamin d from short exposure without sunburn is correct, but I was incorrect on the risk. But he fact I was wrong about uvb and melanoma also makes me think I may be incorrect on the risk of uva during periods without uvb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoma#UV_radiation
More likely they are just guilty of anti-trust violations
India? Well probably because he's not an Indian citizen?
Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to dig deeper to see what more I can find about this.
RIP. His book "Debt: The first 5000 years" really impacted my thinking about how our economy works and how I might help it in the future.
I work as an application engineer for a SaaS company and I do a lot of troubleshooting up and down the stack, but I do not write code except for some console apps or scripts. I do a lot of DB work, some DevOps stuff like cert renewals, custom reports, write bug tickets, etc. The job is not that stressful and I earn close to what you are looking for in terms of salary. I actually expect the amount to be in that range in the near to mid term after some restructuring of our department and reevaluation of the position. They are actually going to be hiring in Q4 for two similar positions, possibly remote. Please let me know if you have any interest!
I have been thinking of coding myself something fun for readme. I like how few people have built poor man's chess: https://github.com/timburgan/timburgan

Any ideas HN?
Large pickups aren’t an appreciable part of the problem here - 18 wheelers are.
Vint Cerf: Why everyone has a role in internet safety
To attract talented professionals to their state
hah, i wonder at what level of self-censorship we actually are (if there is a we) in theory the hn opinion could be very different from the users.
Please correct me if I am wrong. I think that bulk of the cost must be coming from SQL Server. If the author migrates to MySQL hosted on cloud VM's, then this cost might be reduced by 50 - 70%
GeForce AIB partners design boards without running actual benchmarks
> No benchmarks have leaked, how is that possible?
There’s an article here that walks through a little of what happened: https://sports.yahoo.com/nuance-lost-in-penn-state-doctors-r...

A local paper wrote an article on a couple sentences from Sebastianelli’s hour-long talk to a local school board about whether sports were safe during covid. During that talk, he off-handedly mentioned this 30-35% number that he heard from some other doctor. He probably misheard or misinterpreted it. But once the number gets into a headline, it becomes a study showing a medical fact. Even after the retraction (not really a retraction in that it’s not something that was ever published in the first place), that number is still in a HN front page title.
Personally, I agree with the author. Since code executes linearly (in a single-threaded app), it makes sense to write it that way, too. We recently wrote a large a complex parser, interpreter, and backing database for a new text processing language we're developing and it was done entirely without classes or OOPS-type constructs. As the author suggests, it's mostly a lot of switch/case (or in our case, lisp cond expressions) that test for and handle the various cases that the parser might encounter, much as a human would. We've found this design much easier to reason about and debug than a bunch of classes that depend on each other.
I believe a different scale would be helpful for people with above average muscle mass. Check out this research paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890841/

The claim is that BMI does not differentiate between body lean mass and body fat mass. Things like hydrostatic testing are more accurate for determining body fat mass.
Someday the field will figure out that not all images of interest are squares. That will be a great advance. I realize some people have hacked up personal branches of projects to support non-square rectangles but it really needs to become mainstream or else we’re going to stay stuck in this “AI square winter.”
Yes, thank you to the journalists for not letting that slide. We should probably be doing more than just claiming the reasoning is faulty and invalid on some websites though
Now this article has posted a correction but has not changed the headline:
"CORRECTION: Penn State Health later clarified that the 30-35% figure pertaining to COVID-19-positive Big Ten athletes verbally shared with Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli by a colleague was actually published at the lower rate of 15%. He was unaware of that when he made his comments at the State College school board meeting, and when he confirmed his comments to the Centre Daily Times."
> Don’t you loose economies of scales

On the contrary, you gain economies of scale. The way the economies of scale work is if you build n identical widgets, it costs you less than n times the cost of building one single widgets. In other words the unit cost of a widget goes down as the number of produced widgets increases.

If you want to produce a bigger widget though, you generally have diseconomies of scale. For example the Saturn V rocket was about 20 times bigger than the Titan 2 rocket (from which it was derived) but cost about 60 times more.

So, if a Gigawatt-size nuclear power plant is too expensive to build, you build 20 plants of 50 MW each. This is how you achieve economies of scale.
> expecting that the cost of at least getting into court would be around US$200k, even with pro bono representation

Where do these costs come from, if not from lawyers?
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." -
Pablo Picasso
I’ve noticed this to be a common criticism of collections of western thought. It has some validity.

Do you know of any similar lists for eastern thought? I know of some of the big eastern authors but I’d love an equivalently better list of “Great Books” for the eastern tradition.
We have a few craters already, e.g. -

https://www.meteorcrater.com/
Also check out my GitHub webring! Building the markdown widget for it [0] inspired this project.

https://octo-ring.com/

[0] https://github.com/veggiedefender
Your place of birth should not entitle you cheaper access to housing or land.
That same hammer would also hamper innovation in new light diesel vehicles. All three auto makers now make diesel half ton trucks and Jeep is expanding it into more vehicles. We should encourage that.
African American history professor admits she lied by saying she was Black
Paul Mason also was busy trying to climb over Corbyn's corpse.

He's another of the Look-We-Publish-Left-Wing-Opinion go-tos for the Guardian centrists.
Is it?

By the time it's in the US (i.e. there is TSA around) it's getting off the plane not on. Why would they bother? Why would they have a pipeline to process such luggage?

(Of course it's presumably scanned by the Canadian security in Toronto... just not the TSA).
> and I generally believe the best antidote to bad speech is more speech

...

> We've already strengthened our enforcement against militias, conspiracy networks like QAnon, and other groups that could be used to organize violence or civil unrest in the period after the elections. We have already removed thousands of these groups and removed even more from being included in our recommendations and search results. We will continue to ramp up enforcement against these groups over the coming weeks.

This seems to be a pattern in corporate speak. State general principle and then promptly demonstrate zero actual commitment to that principle through actions that speak louder than words.
I love the style of the site. It doesn't look prehistoric but also doesn't have that modern corporate feel to it. Just balanced! Lovely illustrations, did you make them yourself?
For context, the original title was something like "How can Ceasefire support 500k users with $1,000 per month?".

Scaling _from_ $1k per month when a few thousand users hit the page? Yeah, that's not the StackExchange kind of post I was hoping for.

edit: wow, @Monkyyy's reply in that thread is simply brutal (you can't link to comments, selecting text is wonky too)
We live in a democracy. If you vote, I hope you feel a responsibility to only vote on what you think you're reasonably informed about. It's really hard to do. I'm in California (SF), where we have a zillion things on the ballot. Half the time, it's something that sounds obviously good, but on doing research there are probably terrible unintended consequences (like so much of the news). Or look at voting Biden vs Trump. They, and papers on their respective sides of the divide will tell you entirely different things about what reality is and what's going wrong. I have to learn about what's happening beyond me to decide. If we get medicare for all, will it mean horrible wait times or death panels or will it turn us into a Narnian Scandanavian utopia? The firmer a grip we collectively have on how the world works and what's happening, the better the results of our democracy, directly affecting us.

And there's more than just us. Take BLM, or the conditions of sweatshop workers who made my shoes, or the kinds of people trying to immigrate. Should I vote for changes to policing or for crackdowns on rioters? Should I buy someone else's brand of shoes or is fair trade just to make ignorant hippies feel good? Should I help innocent people escape terrible conditions, or are they largely violent criminals to be kept out? It won't affect me either way, but that's a cop out anyways.

> Be where your feet are.

I prefer "think globally, act locally."
Would renting batteries be significantly cheaper than rolling battery cost into the pricing of the car? Isn't it a monthly payment either way?
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
I could have sworn that single letter domain names were not allowed and that all domains must be at least two letters (for .com anyway).

Turns out that a few single letter domains were grandfathered in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...

I'm glad to be one of the lucky 10,000 today!
I don't think we can know everything by any means, but I've started getting my news from subject matter experts who show their work & give full access to their research vs. the spectacle of corporate news.

I'll still skim for anything important, but I'm not even reading what they say, I'm looking for actual sources. Outlets that don't bother to give any sources are generally not worth reading.
I’ve read dozens of articles like this and my complaint is always the same: “Just because we can’t know everything, doesn’t mean we can’t know anything.”

Yes, maybe a buffalo stepped on the thermometer. But the temperature was SOMETHING and just because you don’t trust your thermometer doesn’t mean the temperature is unknowable.

And I found the glorification of free speech at the end troubling. Is free speech good? Yes. Is it the greatest good? Not at all. To say we shouldn’t strive to know anything concretely because we might suppress free speech seems like sheer folly.
The more I use systemd the more I love it. It simplifies so much, and adds all the little features I see so many projects using custom implementations for.

The people who keep complaining about it seem more and more like children who just refuse to learn something new and better because they've already stumbled through all the holes it fills.
Absolutely, why not? As long as the waste dealer is offering a deal that is satisfactory for me as the landowner/waste site, I would happily store said waste. Your question is a bit absurd; nobody is suggesting to keep it inside of someone's home. Should an individual not be allowed to make rational decisions about their land and property? If I owned 20 square miles in the desert, why shouldn't I be allowed to lease my land to waste storage companies? The waste storage people are already regulated to death, for a good reason, and as long as the waste on site is stored safely why should I or anyone else mind?
The banana was never the art. the hysteria around the not-art was the art.
IIRC, calcium toxicity is serious, but only a consequence of sustained Vitamin D supplementation.

Also there's some Joe Rogan-esque "just take the 5000 IU bro" even though 4000 is the recommended supplement upper bound. And devaboone warns against even using that much.
Yes, I made them in MS Paint!
I agree with you. I believe that having fun is subjective. I've actually done both things mentioned for fun. I also had the bonus fun of learning a new thing to boot.
But Google is not a political opponent of trump and if biden were to go after facebook one could make the same accusation. This is a ridiculous standard. Those with opposing political views (and it's not clear Google really has political views) are not exempt from the law.
Not sure how Govt duty works in India but if it is anything like in Australia removing the battery would make the vehicle cheaper and thus reduce the amount of duty paid.
video of the test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4CX-9lkRMQ
But you still don’t know what’s going on in the world. You just know slightly more superficial coverage of the topics du jour that NYTimes, WaPo, etc care to push.

It’s worse to read the news and think yourself informed than to be ignorant and know it.
Tips for writing the perfect script for social media videos
I suppose this is an ode to the famous "enough monkeys will write Hamlet?"[1] :p

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
What competition is there for any of those services?

Bing, whatever MS brands Hotmail as these days, Yahoo, Firefox & Opera? They're all small potatoes. Apple mail and maps isn't really competition, either.

Similar problem in Asia, I believe, just different players.
> I was hoping this would be an article for beginners to understand daemons

Why? On hacker news, you hoped for that?

> Growing up...

Placebo effect, demonic possession, alien abductions, etc? What's going on here? Your comment had nothing to do with the actual post.
> Objects traveling 5,000 miles per hour and making 90-degree turns without slowing down have been recorded by radar that can only detect physical objects.

Really? Got links to more info? It amuses me that the blogger voices concerns over pop scientists omitting context from their claims, and then fails to include context for his own.
I guess youd also say that Einstein was just good at forecasting demand for Theoretical physics too huh?
> The factual raw material can even be done away with sometimes as evidenced by how much of the news is just media reporting on itself (often centering on Twitter!).

For a concrete example of that, Deadspin in 2013 spelled out how ESPN created its own narrative to report on: https://deadspin.com/how-espn-manufactures-a-story-colin-kae...
When there's enough conflicting information out there, fact checking just turns back into fact finding, doesn't it?
I liked the famous photo of Einstein, sticking out his tongue.
>> as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the "Labour #antisemitism controversy", they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour's disadvantage - https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1210322505229094912

Can't say I really agree with Graeber about this at all, one Jewish leftist to another. Told him so over Twitter at one point. Think someone blocked me after this conversation, but it wasn't David.

Gonna miss him.
Millions of views of known conspiracy theories is a pretty good measure.
If you were going to work with protocol buffers frequently you'd probably quickly find yourself doing this over and over, and would then create the aforementioned `assertThat(expected).containsInAnyOrder(foo,bar,baz);`.
I'm sure if they raise the wages they'll suddenly find enough people locally
His company still sells services to people.

It was registered in 1994. Trying to re-do 26 years of configurations and email addresses sounds like a pain in the ass. I'm sure he (or his family) still gets email there.

Just because someone wants something more doesn't mean they should automatically get it.
Brain drain happens because of compensation and some way to immigrate. The Canadian tech industry still does not pay nearly as well as the Canadian side or the rest of the world for the most part.

The people in Canada who 'would have went to the USA' are there because of immigration dice.
Show HN: Single neuron neural network written in COBOL
For my small business that powers ecommerce integrations? Good

For the 1/2 of retailers I walk by who have locks on the door? Bad

Hard to reconcile the fact that most people work for the latter, while house prices go up.
How is it a chicken and egg problem if we're in a post-ads world? Billions of people now have the expectation that content, utilities, and information can be made accessible to them, for free, by simply allowing ads in their feed. From the perspective of someone in a developed nation, the change to a patronage revenue model may seem trivial, but for the vast majority of the world this is a non-starter. You're arguing that information should paywalled, when it currently can exist free of charge.

Also re: the Youtube anecdote - YT ads actually pay out quite well, especially if you're huge. You usually see Patreons, etc. from the smaller channels or content creators that want to hit a certain quality of life/stability. The top 10 YouTube channels easily clear $10M from ad rev alone.
> I don't think anyone is claiming the protests are 100% peaceful.

Some people certainly are, I've heard a few people who attended the riots in Seattle claim the police were the only ones rioting. They're very adamant about that 'only' and any evidence to the contrary is met with "well he's a cop in disguise." It's a case of No True Protestor.

It's very tiresome when people demand you believe their transparent bullshit.
Without paywall: https://outline.com/rf9bzF
I am in tech support and I am expected to fix production downtime incidents.
I think the whole Covid and remote work thing has given new perspectives to a lot of people who didn't think their companies could be run any way other than physically and in person. Perhaps YC's previous succesess had them believing too much in their own method.

As for the latest batch, others have commented and I've noticed that the kinds of companies YC chose last time seems to have a different focus than previous rounds. Notably, there's a heavy emphasis on dev tools and, to my way of thinking, more companies with quick go-to-market products and fewer moonshots. Perhaps the apparent changes in YC's selection criteria also contributed to their feeling that this batch was "more successful."

Personally, judging from the "me, too" nature of many of the accepted companies in the last round, I find it hard to believe that many (any?) unicorns will come out of choosing the low-hanging fruit. It remains to be seen how these companies will be valued going forward or if their products will succeed in the marketplace, and those will be better indications of the success of the overall batch than any press release.
It looks like he was a poster here, but alas, he never commented himself on the Graeber vs Thiel debate or "Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit", his most HN-relevant pieces of work.