skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about those specific people, it’s about the aggregate. They probably won’t chew gum, but you can probably help other poor people in the same community.

Compared to what- banning it which creates some level of a black market and more waste by policing what was previously a legal activity. Not to mention fining or otherwise enforcing the new law also makes those poor people even poorer and removes choice.
Is there an active or other ingredient in tobacco that makes its smoke more harmful than cannabis? Or is it the method of ingestion?
you can hire some local student to do the job, as long as you know how it should be done, any tech savvy highschool/uni student should do
Extrapolate out of how often I see folks giving money out on my way home at the same intersection (around 1/4) times for a 2 minute wait. With what looks to be more than a dollar worth of sponsorship for the panhandlers habit
If we're using the WHO definition of a pandemic it's a pandemic.

If we're using the dictionary definition of a pandemic "(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world."
it's a pandemic.

If we're using the colloquial definition of a pandemic "a disease that spreads around the world killing lots of people" it's a pandemic.

If you want you can consider seasonal flu on the list of pandemics, fine, but you're simply wrong to consider covid not a pandemic and if you are trying to downplay how deadly covid is I'd say you're behaving in an ethically wrong manner too.
I have seen too many addicts slowly kill themselves (tobacco, opioids, cocaine) to be able to morally maintain this position. It’s easy to say when you assume everyone is of sound mind and capable of self regulation, which is not the case. People have demons and mental health challenges that make them vulnerable.

You’d need a model like Portugal, where they fund treatment programs and social services along side liberal drug policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
Yeah I mean if you increase prices 1000x it would have that effect but if you increase them closer to what a place like NZ or Aus does (I think like ~75%, it's been a while since I studied this stuff then the cost is offputting for many but it means that the societal costs aren't externalized onto nonsmokers in the form of additional healthcare burden and the like. There's lots of arguments about pigouvian taxes and whether they hurt the poor, but generally they are effective at stopping usage up to a point (as in there is strong correlation between an increase in tax and decrease in usage) and the benefits usually outweigh the costs even for the poor. Patricio Marquez from the World Bank has a bunch of great reports that break this down, often on a country by country basis. CTFK also has info but is a little paternalistic but I really like tobacconomics reports https://tobacconomics.org/
It probably wouldn't
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The broader term is a pigovian tax and there's tons of (economic) studies on the effects of them. The problem with crazy high taxes is it also increases the incentive to circumvent them, legal or otherwise. One easy example off the top of my head is a person could stop buying them from a corner store and start directly importing them from outside the US.

According to the press release at least one study suggests it would lead to 923,000 smokers to quit, which is a definite health improvement.
It sort of is actually.

If someone near you is smoking, so are you.
Right. When a company says "let's fix email with a better solution", it is very clear what they really mean is "we want to lock people into our proprietary channel and profit". What's good for the user long term is not a factor to them.
How are menthol cigarettes more harmful than regular ones? The menthol just makes it easier to smoke more. Is that the crux of your argument?

I find the “company X is targeting [arbitrary subcategory]” argument to be totally asinine btw. Is Krispy Kreme targeting fat people by offering free donuts for people that get COVID-19 vaccines?

Lastly there is nothing more patronizing than telling a black person that you’re preventing them from buying menthol cigarettes for their own good.

Man I hate the whole “safety culture” crowd. I find it such an insufferable ideology. But then again I’m explicitly not a collectivist so that’s par for the course.
Electro was my thing back then. But I think I'd tire of a whole gig of just Model 500.

The DEMF dancefloor vibe while the booty stuff was playing was... raunchy. Like full on grinding, ass rubbing, etc. Didn't see that stuff at clubs here. The rave/club/techno scene back then here was pretty androgynous and public displays of affection would have been very gauche. Not so in Detroit at certain gigs
Hopefully they all switch to vaping. I'm excited to see the black market solutions to this as well.
You're getting dangerously close to the whole "social credit" style of cost burden. Slippery slope, bud.

Now what? Your healthcare costs should go up because you like your eggs fried and with salt instead of hard boiled?
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...

> Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke.
No wonder he was promoted, so he'd stop doing stupid things like that. Obviously they've not wiped up enough after him.
When paternalistic policies are directed at particular demographics, it is kinda disturbing. I mean, sure, there's a reason. But there always is, and it makes me wonder if a line is being crossed here that will set a bad precedent.
The usual "pomodoro" schedule I see also includes a half-hour break every 4 or so focus sessions. The 5 minute break is more to remind you to stand up and get a few stretches - and also to give your brain the prospect of the break as a "reward" if only you start now.

When I was doing it consistently for a while, a productive day looked like a 30-45 mins of emails + standup, 4 pomodoros, lunch, 4 pomodoros, break, 2-3 pomodoros. However, there always seems to be meetings scattered around, and a more typical day would only get 6-8 pomodoros of focus time.
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> > Margarine is vegan
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>I wish.

While not all margarine is vegan quite a lot of them are. Though you have to look out and read the packaging to make sure you don't missgrab.
> And don't go saying I should use rust-up. That's a symptom of the very problem I'm describing. What other compiler is only usable if you install from some website instead of your repos? I can't think of any.

Lets see... i had this problem with python all the time, the system python version was notoriously old and out of date on macos, redhat, debian, etc. This is how pip and pyenv and a dozen other tools were born.

Similar things with node. Or when the distro gcc has a bug that your code hits. Go has this problem too - e.g. the pain around moving from nothing -> dep -> modules was real (if not widely publicized).

The language provided version/package manager solves a very real problem. That problem is a mismatch in what a system package should be vs what a development package should be. In some sense containers, nix/guix stye package management, and language specific dependency managers are different approaches to solving the problem: what my computer runs for daily use should be relatively stable and generally I won't need the latest and greatest package features in software I use - upstream developers have generaly dealt with various library deficiencies bugs in their dependencies. In software I develop though, I regularly hit api bugs and sure would like to just use version+1 instead of spending time developing around it. Particularly when the output of my development is a binary that is running in a container on some server.
Do you think making it harder to get would help?

Maybe requiring a license to sell tobacco, and limiting the number of licenses in a municipality based on population?

Or putting the stores in industrial zoned areas rather than commercial/residential?
That's true, but covid doesn't get you chemically addicted, nor does it have a bunch of companies attempting to coerce you into continuing to have it.
So, I actually think the directions you give the plumber are MORE specific. I won't accept sewage in my drinking water. I don't care if my Uber driver takes third street or 4th avenue.

But that's not really the point here.

The point here is that there used to be a pretty well defined line between the self employed and employees. That's not the case anymore.

So we either spend decades making ever more complex unenforceable rules, and pretending taxi drivers deserve more/less from their jobs than (say) plumbers. Or we man up and stop pretending this makes sense and use a different system.
Oh, TIL. As blues got played until really long (until it gave birth to rock), I tought the opposite.
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Agreed. It's a balance though, you don't want to create a black market for the things you make illegal. For some reason I don't see menthol cigarettes becoming a black market but I can't say the same for flavored vape cartridges.
If 75% of people aren't there now, and never will be, it isn't "middle class". "Middle class" does not mean "the top 25%".
There is no "natural instinct" in human beings to use HN. Nothing that is classically conditioned is an instinctive behavior.
Very much seconding Boiler Room. Been a huge fan of all genres electronic but those sets have made me "understand" Techno, specifically.
I used to live in Tanzania and while none of the produce or fruit looks very good, it tastes maybe 10x better than anything in America.

When I first moved there I was absolutely shocked by how good the fruits/vegetables and even corn tasted.
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My gut is that it is too easy to make these conversations basically people yelling past each other.

As an example, you are treating uncertainty as a form of tolerance. But you have to explain that, as well. Why is one model 10% uncertain, but another is 30%?

You could just say it is over the data that was trained, but if you can pull it back to used parameters of a model, they may make something more obvious. And it is hard to take uncertainty based on trained data something that transfers to unseen data.
This isn't about outlawing freelancing, it's outlawing the practice of freelancing as a method to reduce benefits for people who would otherwise be considered full-time workers.

I agree that there are bigger problems at a societal level, but it does make sense to go after employers that are intentionally abusing the system. It's starting to get to a scale where it impacts entire sectors of the economy right now... if universal healthcare were passed tomorrow it would still take quite amount of time for it to exist. They're related problems, but there's no reason to not solve one while we're figuring out the other.
How far do you take that logic, though? A huge variety of medical issues could be argued to be "your fault" to some extent.
Some how the democratic party is in favor of prohibiting the use of menthol cigarettes, but they're also in favor of legalizing marijuana? Very weird.
Seems reasonable to reproduce the title, which also seems like a reasonable title for a publication for Indians.
> Admittedly anecdotal, but when chatting with drivers, it seems like a fair number drive part time to make some extra money

There are millions of part-time employees in the US who choose their own hours.
It would be cool if Opera published presto's source code. Even just for historical reasons. I'm sure there's legal and financial reasons they don't.

I was a huge fan and tried to convert my friends from 2004-2012. It was tough watching them slowly convert to firefox or stay on IE.

It really didn't help that Opera handled transparency so poorly. That made myspace pretty much unusable.
Nicotine is potentially harmful in a few ways but mostly it's the constituents of tobacco smoke, particularly nitrosamines: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121116-can-we-ever-have....
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I am not vegan, but lactose intolerant. Vegan cheese has changed my life. Mind you that I was not lactose intolerant till about 18yrs. So I have certainly tried most versions of dairy cheese. I love them both. Sometimes Vegan cheese' flavor and texture is suited and in other cases I would have preferred regular cheese. The fail case happens for me when I try to compare these new vegan X with original X at every single detail instead of judging each of them on their own merit.
We’re about a couple months away from being told that opposing mandatory vaccination is racist because more black people die from COVID-19.

(I mean that seriously not as a joke...although there is some natural humor in it as well)
Also, it's so delicious that you can eat the package for extra flavour.
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You can still buy tobacco, just not flavored with menthol. The war on drugs equivalent is that you can keep smoking crack, just not menthol crack.
US won't do a thing if it interrupts the revenue revenue streams of the Elite.
My point is less about the tax and more about the money being used to help in the same community directly using the tax revenue from bad things directly.

I mean we could just ban everything that produces poor outcomes even in moderation: gambling, smoking, certain types of alcohol, vaping, etc.

If we can’t trust our own citizens to do things in moderation then what?
"Vegan" products don't belong with the products they're impersonating and marketing them as such is fraud.
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It seems like some wideband audio and RF sensors would be able to easily detect this. If it's skull penetrating, I doubt you would even have to place them that densely to detect something out of the ordinary, regardless of the directionality of the source.

There's probably a government contract opportunity for a wearable detector here.
Again, that's how the default development workflow with rust, which uses cargo, works. Including the cargo that's packaged by debian.
This is the view I am most sympathetic with. I actually did advocacy work to increase tobacco taxes but got frustrated because almost everyone in the field wanted governments to outright ban products, and as someone who believes in freedom of choice that didn't sit well with me. I advocated for governments to find out how much "cost" a pack of cigarettes actually inflicted (e.g. cost to the healthcare system from the smoker, if they smoke indoors to their family, from lower productivity and therefore lower earnings/taxes, etc.) and increase the tax to cover that price
Interesting. Do people still associate indoors in large numbers, or is that unchanged as well? As in, could behavioral change be a driver?

I also wonder, with far less numerical opportunity to spread and mutate, if the flu wasn't able to "grow" a good candidate with good evolutionary fitness this year, so distancing and mask usage affect countries even where they aren't practiced.
>it's easy to tell precisely who the elite is just by looking at who's doing the most censoring of others (and doing it effectively).

I'm not so sure that the circus that is contemporary public discourse is a good measure for where elite power is located. I think the actual elites manage to stay outside of this stuff entirely quite effectively.

I see the take quite often in recent times that the NYT et al. hold extreme power because they can censor or chastise whoever they want. My view is that they're more like a court jester. They're allowed to do it because it's utterly meaningless. Does anyone really think WaPo (owned by Bezos) writing critical pieces on Bezos is an example of journalistic power? No, it's an example of how little impact journalism still has.
I used Pluto for last year's Advent of Code. It's extremely good for these sorts of problems — rapid iteration with modest computational requirements.

Think of something you might use a spreadsheet for — Pluto has a similar feeling of instant feedback.

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Some features that are missing:

– Some things are difficult to do with the keyboard; I used my mouse more than with other tools. The author doesn't like modal editing, but ideally they could be implemented with
modifier keys (https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/65)

- It's hard to understand what happens _within_ a cell — logging goes to the terminal rather than the notebook — and there aren't many introspection tools. This is an environment where transparency / introspection would be particularly helpful.

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Pluto doesn't solve every problem, or completely replace notebooks; to respond to a couple of comments:

> I have many extremely long notebooks that would almost certainly crash if you tried to recompute the whole thing

Right, don't use Pluto for that! It's not one environment to rule them all

> Many of the cells won't work at all because the inputs are long gone

That seems bad! Pluto will help you ensure that doesn't happen.
1. Smoking citizens are - on average - productive until retirement, but use up much less pension money. So the cynical policy would be the opposite.

2. When you increase taxes you get smuggling and illegal dealing with all the violence it brings.
> Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.[1]

> The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.[2]

> Each day, about 1,600 youth try their first cigarette.[2]

> In 2015, nearly 7 in 10 (68.0%) adult cigarette smokers wanted to stop smoking.[1]

> In 2018, more than half (55.1%) adult cigarette smokers had made a quit attempt in the past year.[1]

> In 2018, more than [only] 7 out of every 100 (7.5%) people who tried to quit succeeded.[1]

Smoking legislation isn't about micromanaging the lives of people who fully understand the risk choose to smoke anyway. It's about preventing cigarette manufacturers from preying on those who don't fully understand the risk or didn't when they started, but are now addicted.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/inde...
anytime a walmart store votes to unionize. its usually stated to close due to some other preexisting reason. but there is a direct correlation between union vote and stores being shut down
That is true but unless static address why would anyone give you exact geo location of the IP address?!

If you extend this to everything you can have massive surveillance without cookies, MAC address of device, IP address for each package and you know who is accessing what kind of content on internet. So, why wait whenever someone reads article about class 1 drug just brake his door and arrest him, isn't it ?! I mean fork privacy, democracy, and judicial process, just lets immediately arrest everyone :/

Anyway, in German scenario how can you certify that someone was not hijacking your router?

(As per friends case, they had friend who was sleeping over and connected to their Wifi ...)
I really miss working from the office and am eager to go back when it is safe.

Unlike others that have posted here with that opinion, I hold no view that my coworkers are family or even close friends. Regardless, even the small face-to-face socialization I get as part of my work in the office is something that fulfills me. I am invigorated by being able to go into a conference room and stand at a white board or just walk to someone's desk, and try to hash out solutions to problems we are working on. It's just not the same on Slack.

I am single and live alone, so that is a big factor in that.

I also live within a few blocks of my office, so re-adding a commute into my day is a healthy thing, not a huge environmental and personal time drain.
Tobacco is vastly more harmful than marijuana. I don't necessarily agree with the justification but I don't think these positions are inconsistent.
From what David Spiegelhalter said earlier it's about 1 in 250k for the under-30s. That's 0.0004%. The problem is that if you control for the right parameters the expected outcome is worse, possibly by multiple orders of magnitude, than that of being infected with covid.
In general I am not a fan of the government banning things. People should be allowed the freedom to make individual choices and live their life unencumbered. Living in a state where everything is controlled, allowed, or disallowed by governments and corporations imposing their own morality and values is not living freely. Why is it anyone's business if someone smokes a flavored cigar? It makes even less sense when you consider that this government is allowing a free flow of drugs and criminals through an open southern border, including substances that are much more dangerous like meth or fentanyl.

Lastly, I am just completely frustrated and exhausted by the continual hammering of "equity" and "justice" word salads used in every single press release coming out of this administration and the progressive/activist machine more broadly. Does anyone take sentences like this seriously:

> [...] address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products [...]
Agreed with your premise in full.

Increasing the price isn't necessarily about making it inaccessible to people so they stop smoking (though it is a minor part of it that is a nice side-effect), it is to make sure that the additional burden placed on the healthcare system by those people is balanced out by taxes paid in form of increased prices on tobacco products.

If people don't stop smoking, then might as well make sure they cover the extra cost they add to the healthcare system. Seems pretty fair.

To be clear, this statement I made has nothing to with my views on the specific menthol ban in question, as I am still not sure how I feel about it. I was just discussing the hypothetical non-existent strategy of just more taxing on tobacco products instead of outright banning them.
No. Apple provides a door (advertising ID) but there's also a window (fingerprinting). Right now both things exist. Apps already have the ability to fingerprint users with data they collect and that's not sneaky.

That's a strange argument though. Apple forks over an advertising ID so that any app can fingerprint you with a single system call yet you complain that more apps might in the future fingerprint you themselves.
>We ban lead paint, even though it’s super cheap and makes for vibrant colors. I honestly don’t see how this is any different.

That's totally different. Lead paint leads to a ton of environmental exposure to unwitting people. Smokers by contrast have made a choice to smoke.

Do you want them to ban bacon and soda too? Where's the line? Should we ban motorcycles because they're more dangerous than cars? What about recreational diving, skydiving and recreational pilots? Backyard swimming pools are incredibly dangerous statistically, shall we ban them too?

People have an inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The government can ban smokers from smoking in a way that exposes you, but what right do they have to say you aren't allowed to do something dangerous if you so choose to do it?
Did anyone make a calculation on that? I mean smokers are obviously less healthy, but their lifespan is also shorter.
Right, it’s cliché but it’s clear that MVP isn’t the “best player” award given how infrequently LeBron has won it. It’s more some nebulous combination of “how good you are”, “how much you contribute to your team’s success”, and “are you doing so without the support of another star”.