skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I completely agree. Taxation seems to be the only way to actual instigate change. Too high though you would likely lead to the same result as a full ban.

I could see no real reason for a "blackmarket" to exist for menthol cigarettes as the consumption of them has remained pretty much the same over the last 10 years.
I've never known a doctor actually run a test for flu. You couldn't even get a test for Covid either for much of last year, even if the symptoms were blatant. I know a few people who simply stayed home with Covid symptoms and never ventured out to a doctor - and thus were never counted in the statistics.

I had bad flu last year and because of home working, I went back to "work" once I reached the number of days after which I needed a doctor's note. In normal times I'd have gone to the doctor to get a sick note rather than infect my colleagues.
Each virus can only interact with certain cells of your body. COVID and influenza interact with lower respiratory cells. You have to inhale a viral load to be infected, or at least this is the consensus belief right now (and is contrary to all of the concern about fomites early on).

Many cold-like viruses infect mucous membranes (you have a number over your body). A glancing touch is enough to be infected.
New Zealand has an age requirement for tobacco, and has also (edit: proposed) to ban sales of it entirely based on birth year (2004 and forward) to phase out its consumption. I’d say this doesn’t go far enough. We’ve known for over half a century the damage tobacco consumption does to a person’s body.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/new-zealand-ai...
QNAP has some enticing out of the box NAS products, but I guess I feel a bit better having chosen Synology.

That’s not to say I necessarily love any of these vendors too much. They feel a bit too much like feature mills that have lower incentive to adopt better security practices and higher incentives to add features and, well, provide a decent user experience. I appreciate the latter, but it isn’t ideal.

Still, as much as I’d love a NAS running open source software and maybe even open hardware, I think the amount of time and effort spent on doing so would not be well rewarded. So for now, I guess I’ll ride the useful life of my Synology NAS out and go from there.

As for this incident, it is embarrassing, but it happens. Hopefully this will motivate more people to do security research on these devices.
I find Violife feta cheese to be more delicious than real feta for snacking, and can devour a pack in one sitting if I'm not paying attention. It's a bit different from real feta, in that it's a lot less briny. Thus in recipes like Greek salad real feta is still better.
Just to summarise your position

- you will only use an old compiler because that’s your preferred source of installing tools

- you will only use the latest and greatest packages that require the newer compilers.

And this is somehow the languages fault. The language needs to fix the problem of library authors using language features? Seems to me like it’d be easier for you to relax one of your two requirements. They’re fundamentally incompatible.
You realize Vivaldi is essentially the modern replacement for Opera.
The WHO has the FluNET program and they constantly test a fixed set of people with respiratory symptoms for flu, all around the world.

FluNET is precisely why we know flu dropped so much, and hence the large chunk of people with respiratory symptoms have been COVID-19 or otherwise, but certainly not flu.
I've wanted to do something similar to your project of having a sensing unit in each room, or at least each level, of my townhouse. What do you use as the "presence" sensor? PIR?
My bank sometimes requires me to "fax" documents to them using a phone number. I download their electronic documents, upload them to my esigning programing, esign them, then e-fax them using the esigning program to their fax "number". I'm sure on their end, they download the electronic "fax" and put it directly into their document system. There is no paper at any point in this process.
Couldn't agree more. If it were up to me, we'd get rid of the minimum wage, let employers pay whatever they want, and then provide UBI to make sure people have their basic needs fulfilled.

We came up with this agreement as a society that people should be able to survive and have their basic needs met, and then we forced businesses to actually make it happen through minimum wage (and to a lesser degree insurance, pre-Obamacare). If we came up with it as a society, our society (as represented by our elected government) should be the one actually charged with making that agreement a reality.
I'm not sure which is the greater chilling effect, the way downvoting works out in practice on this site, or having the site moderator dismiss you as "sneer"ing and being "snarky" if you openly acknowledge the downvote's chilling effect.
> tribal music

What tribes? Where? When?

Techno is the sound of automation, or as one of the Detroit originators said, 'like James Brown and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator together'.
Covid-19 case counting is a mess. Usually it's based on "the PCR test" which is actually a group of many different tests (the chains they test on can be different and the number of cycles can be different as well). Cases may go undetected, so testing-after-symptoms is very different than testing-random-population-sample. Sometime cases are filed based on symptoms alone. Hence we know very little about the number of C19 cases.

This was also a problem with the flu: they were always estimates.

I prefer to look at excess all cause mortality (per 100 inhabitants) or z-index to get a grip on the size/movement of this pandemic. Most developed nations keep track of deaths very well.
If you're moving at medium altitude, you're moving relatively slower (in angular change) for the same airspeed, so you don't need to fly as slow, and you don't need a low stall speed. You just need the ability to carry enough fuel to match your desired loiter time. Most CAS is performed by fighter aircraft at this time, indicating that your supposition that fighters can't do good CAS is false. Also, "supercruise" is a specific term indicating the ability to stay at supersonic speeds for a prolonged time. Most supersonic aircraft can't supercruise, as they don't have the fuel to do so.

The gun may be useful for strafing runs, but it's explicitly designed as an anti-armor weapon, and it fails at it for modern peer tanks. The JSF cannon is still a 25mm cannon, but it's much more optimized for explosive effect, which is more useful than the 30mm anti-armor cannon that the A-10 carries. There may be call for having more ammo (the A-10 carries ~6x more ammo than the F-35), but practically speaking, the A-10 has 9-18 bursts (1-2 second bursts), while the F-35 has 9-10 bursts (~20 round burst). But again, you're supposed to be doing CAS at medium altitude, which means your gun is more of an after thought.

Beyond that, the F-35 has more external mounting capability than an A-10. The F-35(A/C) has a listed external capacity of 15klbs on 6 external stations (5klbs on the inner stations, 2.5klbs on the middle stations, 300lbs on the outer), plus the 2 internal bomb stations (2.5klbs each), 18klbs total. The A-10 has 11 stations, but not all of them can be used at the same time. The outer stations are spec'd for the same as the F-35 (300lbs for AIM-9). But you can use either the side by side or the center station under the fuselage, and the wing stations aren't spec'd as high, for a total load of 16klbs, or 2000 lbs less than the F-35.

MANPADs are mostly IR, but newer ones are imaging IR sensors, and can attack from all aspects. The A-10's shrouding helps against older missiles, but not so much against new ones.
Googling for "effects of banning compared to ultra high taxation of products" produces useful results that answer your question.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151217165607.h...

tl;dr: they have different, but complementary effects.
So that's what 0.0000095%?

I'll take 5 nines success chance.
Just awful. Aren’t we adults here?
Not sure how much I can say, but it mostly comes down to engineering capacity. We're still a relatively small engineering team (100-200 engineers) and for a long time were more like 30-50 engineers. There's a lot of moving parts in travel and we chose to focus on iOS mainly since it's the has the biggest market share in the US for mobile.
>By that standard, basically no university meets your threshold.

The question then, is what to do about this much larger scale problem, not to simply assert the premise is wrong.
What you call "better" healthcare is considered basic healthcare in the rest of the world.

I understand that when you're a fish it's hard to understand what water is, but the fact that employment plays any part into this whatsoever is a problem. Nobody in Canada or the UK or Luxembourg (some countries i have some experience with) would ever factor in healthcare in a decision to start or leave a job. It is absolutely not a variable.
Covid transmits the same way as flu but is more infectious.

Measures against Covid work against flu.

It’s nice to know that our flu deaths are declining. But our Covid deaths are many times more.
It's because people are working with existing recipes they know and dishes they grew up on and have fond memories of. Thus having a good vegan version of those recipes often relies on having a reasonable ingredient substitution.
> “square” already had an established meaning

Wasn’t your straw man example ‘square-free’, not ‘square’...?
Realistically, if a UMN student submits a patch from their personal, non-.edu email address, will anyone notice or care?
"your freedom is restricted because..." because fragile flowers don't want to get offended or choose to get offended on behalf of other people.

All you see is "godwins law" and refuse to acknowledge the parallels scattered throughout history of how these modern day book burnings, witch hunts and mobs with pitch forks turn nasty... and SOMEHOW you are doing that when we live in a world where violent mobs swarm when someone does something that's Evil - so sayeth the religion of woke.

The Woke'saders (Modern day Crusaders) have no problem destroying lives - to the point of violence and death... so, yes, pardon me for equating the intolerance, bigotry and hate presented by the Intolerant Tolerant as leading towards similar atrocities that have existed throughout history.

Again... focus on godwin and ignore then facts in my messages. That way you can ignore the world around you and you'll be blameless when things continue down this path.

You can also join in the fun of destroying the freedom of others in the crusade to control what other people think, say and do.
Here's a NASA blog with slightly more detail:

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/296/mars-...

> An issue identified earlier this month showed a 15% chance for each time the helicopter attempts to fly that it would encounter a watchdog timer expiration and not transition to flight mode. Today’s delay is in line with that expectation and does not prevent future flights.
So now you know it's time to go, whether or not you care about WFH.
How do you handle the exponential growth of things you have to manage with these sort of things?

I hear Bandersnatch had a huge issue editing and filming due to the same issue.
It's almost universally accepted that covid-19 is separate from, and significantly more destructive than seasonal influenza viruses.

I don't think mainstream virologists and epidemiologists have changed their minds after the past year.
For those that are put off byt the "weird" cell execution behavior there is also https://github.com/compleathorseplayer/Neptune.jl A non reactive fork of Pluto that has basically all the benefits of pluto and multi-line cell execution without begin without the reactive behaviour. Also running code blocks with inline results in vscode also has some notebook feel to me.
LOL, how often do you want your entire notebook to recompute just because you change something somewhere? Have you never tried pursuing a little side experiment in an existing notebook, or have ten abandoned false starts leading to one good result? I have many extremely long notebooks that would almost certainly crash if you tried to recompute the whole thing, and many of the cells won't work at all because the inputs are long gone. Some of these notebooks are years old. The datasets they have in memory aren't saved anywhere else. What possible motivation do I have to lose all of this precious state?

If I wanted a software-grade, rock-solid data pipeline, I would just copy-paste some code from an existing notebook and run it on Papermill.
Well, that's the same Libertarian argument whether black people are involved or not. Every vice is something that people like. That's what the concept of a vice means, as opposed to diseases, crimes, or tragedies. The "is it paternalistic to change other people's willful behavior" question is one that has dogged every prohibition debate since time immemorial.
That would depend on the price.
It's not so much the distance, but which trains you take, how fully booked they normally are, and how much in advance you book. Sometimes a detour is cheaper than the direct route.

If you don't mind sitting in the train a bit longer, one possible trick (of many) with the German system is to book most of your trip using regional (non-long-distance) trains, and only a small bit in an IC or ICE. That way you can usually get across the entire country for 39 EUR (or less with a Bahncard) even if booked a few days in advance. Extensions into neighbouring countries often come for (almost) free.
People will rationalize the choice (since it's still available) and end up spending more on the same item, which doesn't reduce usage - it just means the people using this item now have less money than before.

So, if the goal is to remove the item entirely, it has to be banned from production/import rather than highly taxed.

I don't really think bans are great either - we're all adults and can make our own choices. Provide better education about the effects/impacts of the choice, then let the informed adults make their own decision.
How about requiring the flavour to taste bad
Interesting....but no mention of wombat's cube poop? [0] Surely that didn't go unnoticed.

[0] e.g. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/its-the-wombats-stra...
In your reply I see a theme common in most defences of Uber, it boils down to "without X, the business would not work"

Uber has no inherent right to exist and do business. If the existing laws preclude your prefered business model, you need to get the law changed BEFORE you go into business.
This actually is one of the benefits of being a mobile only product! It makes it a lot harder to scrape the data that we produce (prediction and such). I don't think that's ever been the main reason though, just a side benefit.
What are your thoughts on a retail cigarette sale system such as in Canada, where they may be available in every convenience store, but there can be absolutely no signage or advertising, and they're kept in an opaque cabinet with no labels on it?

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/keeping-bc-healthy...

https://www.ontario.ca/page/tobacco-vendor-fact-sheet
If you're interested in climate modeling, you should really check out Clima.jl. it's an international collaboration on building a next gen climate model in Julia that uses some cool tricks like heavy usage of surrogate models that would be really hard to do in Fortran
There's a difference between sneaking through App Store review and not enforcing anything at all. People still shoplift even though theft is a crime, that's not an argument against having laws.
> Los Angeles’ KISS 106. You heard Cerrone, Cameo, Toto, Grandmaster Flash, Prince, Teena Marie, Kool and the Gang, Black Russian, EWF—-the least formatted format on the market. It was a Cambrian explosion of dance music, much of which became the basis of techno styles.

That sounds a lot like the Electrifying Mojo, mentioned in the article. Mojo played rock and other stuff too.
The key to extracting value from airline loyalty programs is not being the one paying for the flights. Many programs now don’t care as much for the number of flight miles as the dollars spent.

Business travelers are much less price discriminatory and so airlines get fatter margins. They loyalty programs end up transferring value from your firm to you.
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity failed to lift off – will be tried again
yes. also, a bunch of times cold pitches i've ignored went on to do huge things.
Health care
Pages of PhD rationalizations! Hahahaha!
According to Wikipedia taxes make up 42.5% of the cost of a pack of cigarettes in the US. In New Zealand it is as best I can work it out, around 72% (including both excise tax and sale tax). One cigarette costs US$0.96 in New Zealand. Menthol is still allowed.

This, along with bans on smoking inside public buildings including restaurants and bars, ban on advertising (they can't even be displayed in stores), and marketing has lead to significant falls in smoking.

The downside is there is a growing blackmarket and robberies of convenient stores because they are worth so much and easily converted to cash.

(I don't smoke and prices may have changed since I last read about it)

Edit: Typo fixed.
Yeah, I'm sympathetic to the government wanting to protect the health of folks (or if you're a cynic like me, making sure that citizens are productive for longer and don't use as many healthcare resources) but this feels super paternalistic. Why not just dramatically increase the taxes so people can still choose to pay a high price if they want to?
>Why do we

Because this is as much a political statement, and battle, as it is a personal dietary choice.

As crazy as it sounds, a certain segment of people love to change the definition of words. It is not enough to not want to eat animal products themselves, they also are not content to allow others to have these things to themselves unmolested by grotesque artificial imitations.

They want their non-thing to become the thing, replace it, and to the degree it disgusts and frustrates the normal crowd and impinges on their enjoyment of the normal version, the happier they are.
They're not going away but you can pick something else, unlike with any proprietary system where the client is not a choice.
The inventor was not generalizing, but when it starts moving from his one-off to a product idea (as lots of folks are asking for him to productize it) that where my argument comes in. Most likely this won't be a real product anyway, so I suppose I'm just trying to draw attention to this meme that does happen a lot.
Because our tax dollars pay for Medicare/Medicaid, so for those people who don't have private insurance, they're saddling society with the costs of their choices.

In general I lean libertarian and agree that banning things isn't great, but if you want to make your own choices, you have to bear the costs of those choices. If you want to waive your right to government funded healthcare, then you ought to be able to make whatever unhealthy choices you want.
The plans for plasma 6 and kde frameworks 6 are mostly around removing old deprecated features, simplify our dependency tree and porting to qt6. And there is no plans of adding any big features.
To me this seems like an improvement in the direction that you want, in particular that notebooks are reactive. All too often I get a Jupyter notebook from someone else and try to run it on my machine only to find that some intermediate step does not work any more, because the original developer ran something out of order or removed a critical step. A reactive notebook seems more likely to still work after a lot of changes are made while experimenting.
Scientists have sequenced the RNA for both covid and influenza, we know for a fact that they are completely different species of viruses.
Aren't humans omnivores? I don't think we've been coerced into animal consumption so much as that is the default state (if available).
The question that should have been asked is "how can we make menthols less attractive to smokers?"

Because this is how you make them more attractive to smokers.
To clarify a bit these market insights don't just come from comparisons to medicare but by comparing patient care costs to similarly developed nations and trying to account for factors like the obesity epidemic - the US just pays a lot more for a patient to get treatment than similar countries.
Eric Garner was choked to death by the NY police for selling loose cigarettes. That was 7 years ago.
Yes. They didn't just stop testing for flu when someone shows up with influenza-like illness (i.e. flu, covid). Maybe in some places where medical systems were already struggling in normal times, but not in developed nations certainly.
Lawyer won't be able to make those basic decisions for you. They'll be able to help write it in a way that has chance of being enforceable, but if you don't know where you want to draw the line, they also won't
Politicians have shown themselves throughout this pandemic to be opportunistic authoritarians who obviously don't believe in their mandates since they break them themselves so frequently. There's no reason to expect that these sociopaths won't jump at the opportunity to drink more from the fountain of power again given the chance. Since they've gotten away with so much this time, they might even be tempted to go even further next time.
but only as root in a production machine
I don't see any data by age there. I searched around the site a bit. What we need is facebook use by age for western and other countries, e.g. USA vs India. I can't see that.

I don't debate that countries like India have large Facebook usage, but the question I asked was - is there growth coming from the young users in countries like India? Because that goes against my experience, albeit limited to Western countries.

If it's coming from young users in India and similar countries, that's really interesting to me because it shows that teenage trends are not as universal as I'd expect.

If that's not the case, then where is the growth coming from?

Genuine question (unsure why downvoted) and want to get to the bottom of it.
Now that ReadyNAS (Netgear bought them years ago, but the hardware and software was still decent up until recently when they stopped releasing updates) seems to have given up in the (pro)consumer space (4+ drives), is Synology the only option now?

Asustor and WD seem to be making more advanced and larger drives, maybe they're options...
The point isn’t just to tax, but to use the funds to create things that are significantly cheaper and reverse the effect.

Taxing obviously affects the demand and cost of consumption but that money should go somewhere useful, ideally not into the ether that is government spending.
Can be represented as a neural network is not the same as is a neural network??
Final RCA: https://cdn.auth0.com/blog/Detailed_Root_Cause_Analysis_(RCA...

TL;DR feature flag service was to blame
I'm not sure the source of that chart. The viruses contained in the Coronavirus category aren't even the SARS-CoV-2 that we call COVID. They list 4 strains, all of which are the regular circulating strains of coronavirus. I'd say this is not accurate at all.
Just tax cigarettes to the equivalent or greater than the amount of dollars of burden they place on the healthcare system. Make smokers pay for their own choices.

Externalized costs are the root of many seemingly insurmountable societal problems, and most can be fixed by simply accounting for the costs appropriately.