skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite sure of the exact timing, but looks like the Philip Morris stock price went up with this news.
The catholic church is not evidence that the internet doesn't create pedophiles. It's evidence that the internet is not the solve source of pedophiles. If pedophiles are created and not only born that way (I suspect there's strong evidence from abuse studies that indicates this is true), then it's possible they can be created from multiple sources. Long-standing sexual abuse of children by the catholic church is not by nature of it's existence evidence the internet does or does not create pedophiles if you believe they can be created from other sources (is the catholic church responsible for every single pedophile?)

> Increase of photos of children on the internet just means that more people are using the internet.

That's too strong an assertion. It doesn't "just" mean anything, it indicates some relationship, not necessarily a complete explanation.

Personally, I don't know whether I think one way or the other on this, but I don't think it's nearly as cut and dry as people are presenting it. As I understand it, sexual behavior does not always follow the same patterns as other behavior, and people rushing to immediately assume it is or isn't related should probably step back and think a bit more critically, and gather a bit more verified information that directly applies.

To me, the fact that so many people are rushing in with arguments that I see as tenuous, if not outright fallacious, points towards an emotional response by people rather than a rational response. Given the subject matter, and that if the theory presented is true it's purely negative for all involved, as both the pedophiles created (or made worse) by exposure as well as their potential victims are worse off, it deserves some respect in how it is responded to. If it's false, it deserves to be clearly and obviously indicated as such with evidence, and if it's NOT, then we should really examine what that means.
Every time I read a comment like this, that seems to ignore the amount of space, noise, and danger cars bring to a city, I just can’t believe it was written in right faith.
archived link: https://archive.is/ekqAy
Thanks! That blog post was an interesting read, age adjusted mortality rates was something that hadn't occurred to me as someone unfamiliar with this type of data.
Looks to me like 2020/2021 has some wilder spikes that other years. I wonder if that's because people are much more focused on Twitter during the pandemic. The site certainly makes the world feel like an awful place with that stupid trending panel forcing it upon your eyes.
No, but it would make sense to put a health tax on salt. Make people bear their external costs. Like a carbon tax.

Just make sure you have a dividend that goes back to the poor to make up for the regressiveness of such taxes.
Probably important to note that this was being pushed for by a lot of Black health organizations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/16/civil-right...
Viruses aren't alive, and they certainly can't reproduce without host cells, so saying that they survive on their own doesn't seem like a terribly accurate statement. Trying to extend the metaphors of life "alive or dead, surviving" to viruses only generates misconceptions, instead "viable or inactivated" is a better way of looking at it.
actual link to official webpage about the game: http://caffeinewithdrawalgames.com/TRS/details.html
This is interesting, I'm used to "Acracia" (Spanish) as a synonym of Anarchy. E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81cratas

The spanish version of OP's article is not linked to it but here it is:
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acracia
And presents it more or less as a synonym of Anarchy without mention of "lack of will".
Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate
The Anarki forums have a similar feature, except choosing from a list of installed themes.
You are not forcing them. Say you post a gig to craiglist, I need someone to mow my lawn, with this law mower, at this time. Those are the details of the gig offer, take it or leave it, and complete it in any way that meets the requirements of the gig
Im not opposed to the use of proof assistant software for difficult theorems.
And if one foundation or another is more applicable to that software, then thats fine.

Its more the narrative of the grand unification of mathematics thats spun around 'foundational theories' that irks me. In reality its just various emulation schemes.

Rephrasing other mathematicians work and claiming fundamental status, while not producing many novel theorems... just strikes me as very distasteful.
Shills drawing in from every side. ITT watch someone post examples of contrary information presented as fact by the press, to be slandered as spreading misinformation.
How much do they pay the child commenters, or do they really do it because they drink the kool-aid?
> Do you want them to ban bacon ... Where's the line?

There's a factor 30 of leeway on where to draw the line:

> How many cancer cases every year can be attributed to consumption of processed meat and red meat?

> about 34 000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat.

> ...

> about 1 million cancer deaths per year globally due to tobacco smoking

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/cancer-carcinogenic...
Only time I had some was in vegan quesadillas in San jose. The cooking process caused some material change and the more astringent, chemical qualities came to the fore.

I've seen molten plastic with more cheese like qualities.

It was a 3/10 experience. I would try again, but there would have to be improvement.
I agree with your sentiment but I'm not sure it will be the same. The companies that make cigarettes are few and far between and are much more likely to obey government rules to make sure they stay in good graces of the government and can keep selling their other highly profitable products. With alcohol people could make it in stills in their basements and with pot it came from across the border - maybe menthols will too but I'm not sure it's a high value enough product to do so that I would consider it a 1:1 comparison to pot.
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Menthol enhances nicotine delivery by altering nicotine metabolism. Menthol also interact with nicotine nACh receptors in the brain in various ways[1].

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720998/
I'm not going to argue for or against the ban, but tobacco companies specifically targeted african-americans to use them and the civil rights movement to defend industry policy.

Mexicans like tequila because it's made from agave which is easy to grow in the desert. Mexicans have loved tequila since before europeans even landed in mexico.
Well, these are good points.

But still, I think if it became necessary, governments could offer a one time cash payment of 50,000 dollars per child and that would send birth rates up pretty fast. That’s not free though. I see what you’re saying about it being a different situation now, and you’re right, it is.

There are about 4,000,000 live births in the USA every year; paying 50,000 for each of them would cost 200 billion, which is less than a third of the military budget, not cheap, but doable.
12 floors is tiny if you're not used to it.

There's only ~75 buildings in Paris >6 floors because of the 37m height limit.

Cities either have to have faster transportation, build underground, build higher, or build out farther. Increasing costs by keeping transportation horrible or limiting supply for the rich squeezes money from the lowers and the middle classes.

Very fast transport from nearby satellite communities would be the most ideal solution because then locality doesn't matter as much to most people.
Invest, not spend. You'll see plenty of school districts which receive tons of money but at the classroom level teachers are barely paid and kids have no supplies.

Money is going somewhere but most of it isn't into the actual education.
I can see ways to represent lambda calculus constructs using CT and viceversa. I guess that 'systems of logic' includes lambda calculus, or systems with equivalent semantics; so yeah, I can believe there's a connection at some level.

The (one?) problem with CT is that it, by definition, puts too much importance on the relation between things via composition, which is a powerful paradigm in itself, but also quite restrictive. 'Structure' is not usually encoded like that in a natural way.

CT is just part of a larger framework that is currently being unveiled (!!!); but, to be quite frank, people who focus mostly on CT seem to be missing the forest for the trees.
The FDA Wants To Lower Nicotine in All Cigarettes, Which Will Make Smokers Smoke More:

https://reason.com/2021/04/29/the-fda-wants-to-lower-nicotin...
I have noticed Manjaro has worked with KDE upgrades every time actually, it seems to be the most stable. Maybe you are on to something.
Excellent!

So an enterprising Black entrepreneur can buy some loose tobacco, menthol flavor, some tubes, a rolling machine, and go sell "loosies" on the corner.

And then the police can choke him to death!
What do you find works best
I do wonder how hard it is to add menthol to existing cigarettes. Will we see Head Shops where you buy a pack of cigarettes and on the counter are menthol drops you can sprinkle on, and it's all technically legal since they're separate products?
You can list all system variables without having any explanation what so ever how this variables related with each other, and then build model without explicit explanation with sufficient performance.
Socialized medicine by definition increases healthcare costs because it divorces the person creating the cost from bearing the results. This applies in basically every socialist system not just socialized medicine.

It’s also worth mentioning that public health awareness campaigns frequently stretch the science in the quest to moralize more effectively. Case in point: saturated fats, pretending everyone is equally vulnerable to AIDS, etc
Backward compatibility doesn't mean that you write code with the latest features, then go back to a version that's a year old than expect it to work. No language or software does that.

The promise is that if you have code you didn't touch for a year, you can update Rust, and it will still compile.

You got it backwards.
> Alcohol can be safely consumed in moderation, and is less prone to addiction.

Tobacco can be consumed in moderation. I'll smoke a Wood Tip Wine Black and Mild about once a month, and my pipe on an occasional beautiful day.

The benefits are the extreme joy it brings me. It's one of my favorite things in life, and they're going to take it away.

Nicotine is amazingly pleasant and performance boosting unlike alternatives.

A good read:

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
I don't think your anecdata proves anything but your own experience.

1. I eat out a lot, including junk food every now and then.
2. Of course I hand wash, but i would not say "before touching face" per-se, but as often as you'd normally expect (restroom breaks, before preparing food and/or eating, after coming from outside).
3. I don't really run away from sick people. I simply am indifferent.

I still never get sick, i used to, but probably haven't for more than 7 years.
>The government has no authority to demand a software bill of materials (SBOM) from everyone who publishes software.

Speaking from US Gov perspective - if the company is part of a contract (and ~40% of the Gov are contractors), Gov certainly can.

They can put nearly anything (legal) into the RFP/Q. Even if they do not say "give us your BoM", they can wrap it in requirements that in essence delivers the same exact result.

That said, it is Gov mistake to ask for the BoM. They will do little with it in a timely fashion, and lack the expertise to identify risks, and lack the resources to go after it. The best contracts are the ones where the rules and parameters are set for the contractor, (i.e. no untested software, no foreign influence, no this, no that, must have this and that), and auditing of the compliance.
- Split window (just use your window manager?)
- Thunar has Tabs, and I'm sure lots of other file managers do too
- That is a nice option, and others should copy it.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. At this point, if you start smoking that's on you. It's not like there's any shortage of proof that tobacco is bad for you at this point.
Fish have been swallowing microplastics since the 1950s
Urban sprawl is awful if there's only single-occupant vehicles, bad roads, and no reliable public transport anyone wants to use ... basically, you get Los Angeles. Terrible, crime-ridden, and horizontally dystopian.
I don’t buy into the ban having racist roots but I am concerned about the result of the ban increasing race problems. There was a famous case in the past few years of a big black guy being killed during a police interaction and the underlying reason for the interaction was that he was selling loose cigarettes on the street.

Prohibition and the failed drug war have shown us that making something illegal won’t stop demand or supply. So now a bunch of black people who are physically hooked on a specific product are going to have it taken away (I smoked, it was a nightmare fight to quit) and for sure people are going to start selling bootleg product (unless menthol can’t be bootlegged, I know nothing about the creation of this product) and most of them will be black since most of the menthol demand is in black communities.

Unless the police don’t intend to try and stop this we would expect it to increase the amount of police interactions and then naturally increase the number of violent interactions leading to death.
I mean who cares?
There is approximately 0% black people in my country. When menthols got banned some people who liked them got annoyed.

Just don't let the crazies make everything about race. About all policies are going affect some demographics more than other.

Banning menthol cigarettes is an easy choice if you accept some paternalistic policies. Big win for little cost.
What do you mean by that? Control in what way?
World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal
Cannabis in Massachusetts has to be sealed in child-proof containers before leaving the point of sale, too.
Downvotes on HN are capped at -4. Go to Reddit and notice it's unbounded.
I think ArgoCD is a good parallel to what Releasehub offers, so the question of what we offer is probably a bit of bias on our part. Objectively, though, what we offer is a fully integrated experience from a PR/git commit being built into a fully functioning environment every time. Sometimes the other side of that is just as important: when the PR is closed, we delete the environment!!

The other value add we offer, more subjectively, is the ease of use and reduced TCO of having someone else manage all the kubernetes, infrastructure, duct tape, and self-support required for open source solutions.
Metacrap
Maybe, if the title wan not so overblown the pushback againt the articles premise would not be so hard.
A historical exception isn't an acceptable excuse to muddy the otherwise precisely defined definition further. But that's just my opinion. I'd even wager that coconut liquid may lose its privilege in the near future. Good
> 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.

This may sound pedantic, but I think it's an important distinction: Society has saddled society with the costs of their choices. It's not the self-destructive choice maker's fault.

If a child in public school willfully refuses to practice cursive, they may require additional instruction and resources. I wouldn't say that child is "saddling society with the costs of their choices". They're just living the life they were born to, and society is obsessing over them.
Being incentivized by paying for your increased risk via decentralized market dynamics is fine. Being banned from consuming a substance because your body no longer belongs to you but rather is property of the state is not fine.

Unaware what countries have fully banned tobacco. Without looking it up at all...maybe singapore? They seem like the type.
Link with #Multi-process_QEMU added

https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.0#Multi-process_QEMU
I knew someone with a preexisting blood condition who got clotting after taking the vaccine. So for those people the chance is way higher. But the risks for clotting were not as well known at the time as they are now, and she didn't do her own research.
Writing a Postgres SQL Pretty Printer in Rust: Part 2
Lolwut. Who? Ne'er-do-wells, haters, or rent-seeking bastards?

(I'm in a 1400 sq ft / 130 m^2 2/2 apt in ATX.)
Does the entire paternalistic argument really rest on that? What if you believe humans are rarely entirely rational and it's a spectrum (e.g. If I was addicted to heroin but trying to quit I'd probably be less rational when I really wanted a fix than if I was a pack a day smoker doing the same)?
>> A coagulant is typically added to turn the milk proteins into solid curds — in many cheeses, that coagulant is an enzyme called rennet, which is traditionally taken from an unweaned calf’s stomach lining, although vegetarian rennet, derived from molds or plants, is used in some cases.

"Traditionally" rennet was taken from an unweaned milk animal's stomach (not just a calf's stomach. Some people make most of their cheese from ewe's and goat's milk).

Fast-forward a couple thousand years and in modern times, most rennet in commercial cheeses is the product of fermentation by cute little bacteria cultured in cute little bacteria incubators:

... Because of the above imperfections of microbial and animal rennets, many producers sought other replacements of rennet. With genetic engineering it became possible to isolate rennet genes from animals and introduce them into certain bacteria, fungi, or yeasts to make them produce recombinant chymosin during fermentation. The genetically modified microorganism is killed after fermentation and chymosin isolated from the fermentation broth, so that the fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC) used by cheese producers does not contain a GMO or any GMO DNA. FPC is identical to chymosin made by an animal, but is produced in a more efficient way. FPC products have been on the market since 1990 and, because the quantity needed per unit of milk can be standardized, are commercially viable alternatives to crude animal or plant rennets, as well as generally preferred to them in industrial production.[12] ...

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet#Fermentation-produced_c...

But, somehow, everytime I read an article about vegan cheese it seems to lead with the outdated information that rennet is, like, normally, made with the stomach lininig of unweaned calves.
Part of the argument for this is that Menthol actually makes it less harsh on your throat, so it's easier for new smokers to start with Menthols.
So are you saying the Labor Secretary should classify them as independent contractors?

In terms of scale the Department of Labor classifies all workers. Should Congress classify each worker individually?

Were previous Labor Secretaries out of line for classifying the workers as contractors?
To quell discussions of no/low testing.

Looking at two weeks:

- Week of December 5, 2020: 40/22,474 flu tests were positive

- Week of December 7, 2019: 631/1,508 flu tests were positive

Cumulative #s:

- Cumulative through Week 14 2021: 1,739/891,717

- Cumulative through Week 14 2019: 37,155/69,291

So we've been testing wayyy more often with wayyy fewer positives.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/pastreports.htm
You could probably use an iPad in kiosk mode (single app always shown) mounted with an always-connected charger.
Make the tax high enough and you just create illegal markets. We should have learned from Prohibition and the War on Drugs that if people want to get high, they will find a way, and other people will be happy to provide what they are looking for.
Automate finding and busting constraints with smart simulations
This confuses the heck out of me. I saw my comment as the more inclusive.

> using a reactionary talking point

???
You are not forcing them if it's mentioned in the gig description before the offer is taken: I need someone to mow my lawn, with this lawn mower, at this time. Those are the details of the gig offer, take it or leave it, and complete it in anyway that meets the requirements of the gig. No different then I need someone to walk my dog, with this leash collar, at this time, and use this biodegradable bag. Or should the dog walker bring his own leash...
What I'm saying is there's always something wrong with the taste of dairy cheese. Although, it's subtle, and you get used to it if you eat it enough.
That it wasn't predictable or obvious flu cases would go to near zero. These news stories are not about how if we do X then flu cases will go to near zero, and most operate under the assumption flu season is coming and will likely be a "twindemic" that needs to be mitigated/lessened. It didn't come and now we are pretending it was clear it was never coming.

Just tired of people using selective memories to pretend that the last year wasn't chaotic and full of many wrong predictions, from experts and novices alike. Some humility would be appreciated.
This guy, Bartosz Ciechanowski, does the most well described and understandable blog posts on science and engineering that I've come across online.
I've had my ads completely shut down twice for months at a time "for investigation" due to invalid traffic. I don't click on my own ads. I don't know, it's a little worrying.
It's a stretch to call it a neural network. It was already well-known that the Fourier transform can be seen as a matrix multiply which minimizes some least squares problem.

This can be found somewhere in S.M. Kay's Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing: Estimation Theory (Vol 1), Detection Theory (Vol 2).
These are usually small aggregates and summaries, so I just display them in notebook output. It does make it take a bit longer to scroll through the notebook to find something, but that's what being disciplined with organization is for.
Why did XMLHttpRequest.send() ever allow for synchronous execution
This is a question about the history of the api.

I was discussing async in JS with a few devs at work and I was reminded in my early web dev days (JQuery, IE6 woes, etc)

I had remembered that XMLHttpRequest had a flag 'async' which if set to false would trigger the call to be synchronous.

I remember this has a hack that would simply break your site because it would block the thread of execution.

Calling this outside of a webworker is deprecated now. But, what was the intended usecase for this back in the day? The best answer I have is that pre gmail it was very common for sites with JS to simply not have much ajax going on and blocking was just acceptable.

Is that just it? Were there other use cases in mind? Is there something i'm misremembering here? Did anyone out there use this in production systems?

thanks!
I completely quit smoking tobacco.

By switching to flavored vape cartridges, which the FDA then helpfully made illegal in a fit of moral panic.

Pity, because as far as anyone can tell, vaping is at least two orders of magnitude less deleterious to health than smoking.

So these days I refill my old cartridges and nurse a grudge against FDA. I haven't backslid to smoking, but if they ban high-nicotine salt juice entirely, I don't know what I'm going to do.
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I guess this was mostly priced in already, because they smashed the street estimates but still only gained 3% after hours.
CircleCI launches dynamic config generation