skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the kind response. Those pages are linked right on the homepage, I clicked on the Paris[0] one.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/7ey6spH.png
There are some cashew-based queso dips that are pretty darn tasty. Although, it's a bit easier for vegan to compete in that context since "real" queso dips are the whey stuff not cheese, per se.

Edit: to be clear, I'm commenting as a tangent to the ground nut suggestion. I'm not suggesting anyone put queso on pizza, unless that sounds good to you :)
Telescopes and microscopes are subjects of theory of optics, which studies the nature of light.

The "computer" in "computer science" is referring to turing machines, automata, etc, which are subjects of theory of computation, which studies the nature of computable functions.
I haven't seen this before, thanks for sharing. Do you know the original source?
Thankfully there are millions of people that prefer to use their phone for searching and booking travel and we've been able to build a business around it.

I feel your pain around filling in forms and managing context on mobile devices which is why we've tried to make the process simpler and deliver to customers what's actually important. This article was written by our head of design back in 2018 about why we chose the search parameters we chose for flight search: https://medium.com/life-at-hopper/users-dont-want-filters-th...

He's now leading design at a start-up called Fast trying to apply similar principles to paying for things online.
> I feel it would be so much easier for me to quit if I wasn't tempted by its availability at every corner store

Canadian bans on packaging and promotion are one solution. Another is to mandate tobacco products, or certain tobacco products, be mail ordered.
Amusing, but probably too subjective. It's not like the people making it are going to co-operate with you in making it actually taste bad.
upwards of 8 years old site but here's previous discussion from a couple years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705755
I think the ideal user-friendly system would switch between automatic and manual recomputation depending on expected time of recomputation and expected time until the user triggers another recomputation (and clearly indicate which cells need recomputation to make them reflect the latest state of the system). If you’re editing a file path, for example, you don’t want the system to read or, worse, write that file after every key you press. Similarly, if you change one cell and within a second start editing a second one, you don’t want to start recomputation.

So, if the system thinks it takes T seconds to compute a cell, it could only start recomputation after f(T) seconds without user input.

Finding a good function f is left as an exercise for the reader. That’s where good systems will add value. A good system likely would need a more complex f, which also has ideas about how much file and network I/O the steps take and whether steps can easily be cancelled.
> Is Krispy Kreme targeting fat people by offering free donuts for people that get COVID-19 vaccines?

LOL are they really doing that? That's funny considering that obesity and diabetes are both risk factors for poor COVID-19 outcomes.
I mean things probably will go that way as tracking of individual behaviors gets easier right? For example, I believe some healthcare providers will give free fitbits to users (I think the State of Nevada does) to get them to exercise more, so not a direct fee but they are incentivizing a certain behavior. Then you've got all the car insurers now that are looking at more details of your driving above and beyond the standard 1) how old are you 2) have you been in any accidents
the uber money is $30/mo. You can use it with Uber Eats. It's more than half of your $550/yr fee. $190 for all of the other benefits that the card provides is INSANELY CHEAP.

Most of the other programs you just sign up once. It's so easy, I don't understand what you're complaining about. If it's difficult for you to use the benefits, you probably aren't the target type of customer for that card.

The merchant discounts and event ticket presales/reserved seating are a massive boon. I get just shy of front row seating at many events because of AmEx. There's usually at least $50 in merchant discounts available each month that I'll use.
> We’ve known for over half a century the damage tobacco consumption does to a person’s body.

Sorta. We don’t have any randomized trials in people. Even harder to blind the participants for extra science.

We have tons of epidemiological evidence that it’s bad, but that’s piled with pesky cofounders.

Being the type of person that could become/does become dependent on tobacco does terrible things.

Being the type of person that can shake off that addiction does great things.
Reminds me of the original atlassian bamboo pipeline as code impl that had you write the pipeline as Java or Groovy, can’t remember specifically. They got dunked on for it not being a declarative file.

Now we’ve got a pipeline being defined by a declarative file being generated by code.
>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.

That only makes sense in places where the taxes go to healthcare organizations. In the American system, that doesn't happen - there's no way that a city will hand the proceeds of its tobacco taxes to insurance companies.
We're not talking about a single flu season, effectively we're talking about skipping an entire flu season.

Influenza is pretty promiscuous. In normal conditions, very few people aren't exposed to it: either their existing immune resistance (vaccinated or otherwise) is up to the job, or it isn't.

Mutation is therefore the primary driver of flu, year upon year. This is why vaccines are continually reformulated for a best-guess at what strains are going to be dominant.

We had just concluded a northern-hemisphere flu season when travel restrictions started to kick in. This was followed by at least a 90% reduction in international travel, and for most of what remained, it was mandated that new arrivals isolate for long enough to eliminate any influenza they might have carried.

Lockdowns would mean less mutation to begin with, since it happens in human hosts. And such mutations as did present are going to have a tough time jumping oceans, and even when they do arrive, spreading through the populace is substantially inhibited.

Ironically, the universal mask mandates are likely to be more effective against flu than against COVID. Like it or not, masking has minimal effect on spreading aerosols, although using a "real" mask, and being pretty careful to wear it right, can mitigate inhaling those aerosols.

Influenza is believed to be spreadable through aerosols, but the primary vector is droplets, while the opposite appears to be true for SARS2. Bog-standard cloth masks are fairly good at keeping droplets off people and surfaces.
I heard a former tobacco marketer say once that the only thing that sells cigarettes is a sign that says "OPEN."

A more effective harm reduction strategy would be to make the things more expensive and inconvenient to purchase. But that's a harder sell than banning flavored tobacco products.

Meanwhile, alcohol comes in numerous pleasant and sweet varieties and you can buy cookies with enough THC to knock out an elephant. It's a bit of a double standard to go after tobacco products, even if they have fewer redeeming qualities and low potential for responsible use.
I am still happily running FreeNAS 11. I haven't updated to 12 and it's name change to TrueNAS. Anyway, the amount of janitoring I have to do with it is very minimal. Over the last year, less than 1 hour of time spent total.
Yes. This is a common misconception. It’s not that inhaling any kind of smoke is inherently dangerous. It’s specifically the oxidative damage that tobacco causes that makes it so uniquely deleterious. Reactive oxygen species are no joke.

By contrast cannabis is a natural anti-oxidant. Smoking cannabis might be correlated with more bronchitis but none of the cancer, heart disease, [insert every other tobacco harm]. BTW I seem to recall particle size is different between tobacco and cannabis smoke but I think the oxidative damage is the main reason
They both put tar in your lungs. A tobacco smoker generally smokes far more cigarettes than a cannabis smoker. Per-breath, cannabis seems to put more tar in your lungs, since it's generally unfiltered. But a tobacco smoker takes many more breaths of smoke.

Some information here:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...

As far as I can tell, vaping is far, far safer than inhaling smoke, for both tobacco and cannabis. The healthiest strategy is to avoid all of these things of course.
Sorry but where is the harm reduction for everyone else's race? Doesn't seem like it's a priority since the people in powerful also enjoy those vices. It's a bit coincidental that the races with less power also have the vices that they need to be protected by. My family is Mexican and they love tequila. I can guarantee you that if it was banned they'd all drink less alcohol and would be much less of a burden on our healthcare system. Somehow I'm yet to see a suggested ban of flavored Smirnoffs because it's turning our white college students into alcoholics.
> But man, “ban menthols because Black people like them” sure feels a little weird.

> Like, I get that’s not exactly what’s going on. But.. it’s a little bit what’s going on?

Like other flavors have been, they are banned because of the youth impact.

The racial skew, and whose youth regulators previously were and weren’t concerned about, is why menthols were previously excluded from the flavor ban, but its kind of weird to call out eliminating the racially-motivated discrepancy as a problem.
Flavors aren't effective at hooking young people, nicotine is. Nobody smokes because it tastes good, menthol or not. This is just another ban that makes some people feel good about themselves while pissing off the rest. I lean pretty far left, but this is the kind of meaningless ban that makes people hate Democrats.
I mostly follow K&R style but if the condition of an if or while spans multiple lines, I will put the opening brace on the following line.

In nearly all languages, I tend to find double indentation for continuation lines works best to keep continuation separate from nested structures. My biggest hate is code where continuation lines are variable because they've been lined up with the position following the first opening parenthesis on the first line - yuk.

Keeping things compact vertically allows more code to fit in a window. Double blank lines and single blanks between nearly every line of code also annoy me.
> People have demons and mental health challenges that make them vulnerable.

Maybe some small number of people do. But why should their problems result in everyone else being deprived of choice?
Yes, opt-in informed consent from maintainers and reviewers of the patches.
I don’t have a strong opinion either way, but you could just ban both things you know.
Who exactly would you like to go to war with? The martians?
Not hard to diy.
Time to invest in menthol spray companies?
But of how unsound a mind must someone be before we say "I know better than you?"

There are 10s of thousands of addicts on the street that the government does not feel it has the grounds to institutionalize. So we trust them to make every decision except which psychoactive chemicals that aren't alcohol they can consume?
Amount of money spent is a poor indicator of services received.

Can anyone go to University? Are down on luck individuals more likely to receive housing or being sent to prison? Can old folks live off of their pension or do they have to work as greeters?
I mean, the short answer is risk vs. reward. Smoking is insanely bad for you, very addictive, and the benefits are, uh, marginal.

To walk down your list:

- Alcohol can be safely consumed in moderation, and is less prone to addiction. This comes the closest, though.

- Cars have lots of places where they can be safely operated above that speed, and fast travel has lots of benefits.

- The potential benefits of the stock market are fairly obvious. The risks are extremely, immediately obvious, including to the person doing the money-losing.
Black people couldn't possibly make their own decisions on whether they want to smoke, or what flavor of cigarettes they prefer. They need the white people running the FDA to protect them.
> Nicotine is potentially harmful in a few ways

Not least of which is it's incredibly addictive. Meaning that tobacco smokers often smoke a lot.
I think there's a couple of issues at play here.

Firstly there's the information asymmetry for non-technical users - they don't think of themselves as buying security, they think of themselves as buying a remote access solution. They therefore don't see this as a process, but instead as a product or solution. That means they're surprised and caught unaware when something goes wrong.

The second issue is that people creating the software aren't themselves thinking about security, because the customer isn't buying security, or comparing security. And how do you measure or quantify or observe security? There's no commercial incentive to invest a month in hardening a product against attack, unless that month of engineering effort sees more sales and revenues. And since the people who buy are satisfied by slideware and specification sheets for security, nothing changes.

I think we need a whole change to how we buy software, hardware, and solutions in general, to see this change. The underlying economics don't incentivise secure products, in fact they actively discourage them.
The original harm was caused by tobacco corps targeting a particular demographic. Rectifying this wrong requires targeting that demographic, but it's not unsettling. Moreover, they have banned all the other flavors, so might as well finish the job with this one.
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I'm perplexed why anyone would downvote this comment; it seems very interesting and insightful to me.
More like 0-days, unless you really think they're going to be so forthcoming.
Synology on the other hand just remove file systems that you may be using https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800062
https://jag.journalagent.com/tkd/pdfs/TKDA_37_4_234_240.pdf

From the paper:

Its cooling effect may contribute to the intensity of smoking (deeper inhalation and/or more prolonged breath holding) resulting in greater exposure to tobacco smoke toxins. The effect of menthol through increasing the permeability of cell membranes results in a greater absorption of smoked toxins [2,3] Ahijevych and Garrett[2] reported higher cotinine levels in mentholated cigarettes compared to nonmentholated cigarettes, suggesting greater nicotine absorption per cigarette. Clarke et al.[3] found that mentholated cigarette smoking was associated with higher serum cotinine and carbon monoxide levels per cigarette.
If someone near you is smoking, when you go home you aren't at risk of an ER visit in the next week. If someone near you has Covid, you are.
really wanted to post this one again eh

is this an april fool's joke?
Afaik smokers and alcoholics are a blessing for most states. What is additionally spent on them due to healthcare costs is far less than the taxes they pay + the retirement payments they don't receive due to premature death.

Funny clip from Yes, Prime Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWxukctTlsY

I think choice is good, and taxing appropriately a good measure. Not sure about today's health and safety obsession in general. Wonder if in today's world (hypothetically given the same technological means as back then) we would ever try something like a lunar landing. And one wonders what we will forbid in 20, 30 or 40 years. Prohibition again? All those "poor people, suffering from alcoholism, disproportionately those who can't afford therapies (esp with regards to long term alcoholism), people on the fringes of society, who we must help, and who can't be trusted to make their own choices, because _we_ know better"?
I'll live where ever I want to thanks. I have ZERO desire to life close to anything and I can you do a great job at home. If you can't that's on you not me.
it's entirely possible that smokers have lower lifetime healthcare costs due to living significantly shorter lives on average. they certainly draw less social security.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22449823/
Ha, I hear this argument all the time and it’s actually completely wrong. All social behaviors are contagious. They do spread exponentially. Especially drug consumption / smoking.

Note: it’s not relevant but to be clear I oppose all drug bans (incl tobacco) and all the COVID restrictions. So don’t interpret my pointing out that social behaviors are contagious to be justifying the menthol ban.
1. I'm skeptical as the age of retirement keeps going up. Have a source?
2. Agreed that's an issue in contexts with low rule of law but I think that's less of an issue here than say Ukraine/Russia/DRC where there is serious smuggling
All of these things are okay in moderation and have some driving principle that weighs cost versus benefit. Same with cigarettes. Hugely harmful with a long tail of harmfulness and external effects on society with little or no gain. Seems like a good risk analysis to me in this case.
What I want to know is whether the researchers had ever privately asked anyone in the chain of the kernel whether they would be willing to participate as a filter.

Bad example for obvious reasons, but if Linus was given the usernames that would be submitting bad patches and forewarning of which ones were valid and which ones weren't, it could have been done such that the experiment was valid and the commits were not included in the final tree.

I think it is a rather mild restriction to the experiment that a single person must be able to find an excuse to recuse themselves - as simple as "I don't have time to look at this, can someone else" would have worked.
Because when they legalize marijuana they'll also pass a bunch of anti privacy laws. Watch here in Canada, since we can smoke marijuana legally they can arrest you without any probable cause.
Not at all, giving that kind instructions to the plumber is like telling the Uber driver not to hit and run women and children. You don't give instructions on the core job competences, if you do, you are a teacher not a client or employer.
How is it 2021 and people still treat other people like livestock…
The difference is that the bug bounties are being collected from an endorsed bug bounty program.

Fake and malicious packages jam public collections regularly, and are not part of white hat research. It's a trash fire which seemingly only gets better with exploits forcing people to change.
Just to be clear: are you coding in nano all the time in that 24/7 terminal session? But there is no syntax highlightning etc? To edit config files, sure. But most of the time spent?

I prefer nano too; trying to learn vim. But my coding happens in either Qt Creator or VS Code.
The usual approach for managing complexity is to chop it up into storylets. Emily Short has written a lot about it on her blog [1]

[1] https://emshort.blog
> Consequently, vice taxes are always either ineffectual, or a ban that only applies to the poor.

A 10% increase in tobacco price results in a 4% decrease in tobacco demand: https://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/taxation/en/

I don't know if that counts as "ineffectual" in your book, but its not nothing.
While that saying applies for things like social media and such, it isn't the case for Hopper because you still have to pay for travel. The app is free, but you still have to pay for any flights or hotels that you book. Usually when an app or online service is free, then you'll see ads serving you content associated with your search behavior because that's the only way that service could monetize itself. Hopper's founder has been pretty adamant that we'll never serve advertisements in the app and we wouldn't be selling user data to 3rd parties and at least in my 4 years at the company that promise has been kept.

I would hand in my resignation if we started serving ads in the app.
Damn I wish I had your immune system. Pre-covid I would get sick every September and probably 2 other times in the year (I would have the flu jab every November too!). I'm a germaphobe so wash my hands before eating, etc. I also try and stay fit, don't smoke and hardly drink alcohol.

Unless there's a trick I'm missing here?
A lot of these problems stem from healthcare being tied to jobs, which makes zero sense.
What is inconsistent is not banning alcohol, since it by far causes more harm than marijuana or menthol.
In the C++ world there is no such problem. You can usually compile most projects using compilers found in stable distros. Maybe not all projects with LTS distros, but at least the ones which are released once or twice per year. In debian, the rust compiler is updated more often than other programs and it's still not enough.
I've got the complete opposite experience. Maybe the kind of stuff I work on is just different but that sounds like a lot of work that could have been avoided by cobbling together some reference designs and carefully reading PCB layout documentation.

With all the different reference designs, parts libraries, and open source projects available these days, spinning up a PCB design has never been faster and easier (I use Altium). My record for a nontrivial design is less than 12 hours from idea to fab+assembly order with an FPGA + Wifi referenced design grafted onto a gutted STM32F4discovery followed by ~30 hours troubleshooting the bringup and sending out a second revision. I don't think I've ever written and tested nontrivial firmware in that time frame.

Even in complex microprocessor boards where routing high speed signals (DDR3/4, MIPI2/3, etc) takes up 90% of the design time, the time spent faffing with BSPs and device drivers far outweighs design time.
Food is very highly regulated. And for good reason.

It seems totally feasible to require a new product to have a new name, even if it's kind of like an existing product. Think: ice cream. Ice cream is a regulated product with a formal legal definition. Places making cheaper ice cream substitutes were forced to come up with names to distinguish their products: soft serve, Frosty, FroYo, etc.

It takes the consumer all of 10 seconds to get the gist.

Everyone should be okay with truth in food. Especially vegan, who certainly would NOT be okay with products that mislead them into believing a product is vegan when it is not.
Freedoms are fine until companies are doing whatever they can to make something so addictive it's near impossible for someone to quit without suffering or spending lots of money.

It's not just a someone choses to smoke. It's they got hooked, usually by deceptive advertising or peer pressure.

Are you also against seatbelts? The police? Building codes?
Except a smoker cost way less over the course of its like than someone living to be 90 years old. It costs way more to keep old people alive.
We don’t trust them, we gave up on them.
Honestly the secondhand smoke research is very sketchy. Actually anything that becomes a public health issue ends up getting distorted by the public health establishment. Case in point: flu vaccines. They’re so ineffective that no rational person would ever waste time taking them, yet many of us do: https://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-prevent-influ... (note: the “no rational person” is slight hyperbole)

The better argument is that the actual social behavior of smoking is contagious, as any social behavior is.