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> But this is the whole point, they do attract non-smokers. They should explicitly detract them instead.

This is magical thinking. Do we apply this requirement to healthier alternatives in any other market?

For example: I really like McDonalds fries, but I mostly don't eat them because they're unhealthy. However anecdotally some "heavy users" eat them 3 to 5 times a week.

Imagine if McDonalds introduced "Beyond Fries" tomorrow, equivalent in every salient way, but less unhealthy (say, baked potato-level healthy). Would anyone apply the standard above, calling for it to be _only_ a "fry cessation product" for heavy users, and expecting it to explicitly repel the abstaining-for-health-reasons users like me?

I can't see how it's even possible to achieve both goals at once. A healthier alternative to _anything_ is going to draw some former abstainers-for-health-reasons into the market. And smoking has a _lot_ of abstainers-for-health-reasons.

By all means let's call vaping a smoking cessation product, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to assume that we can have our cake and eat it too here.

Edit: sense
Wouldn't we have seen a massive spike in head / mouth / throat cancer, though, even if the overall cancer rates had gone down?
> Is it Novel? Is it Non-Obvious?

Those questions for patents are barely more clear-cut than copyright fair use tests, there is lots of room for disagreement.

It's definitely true that a fair use defense against copyright infringement varies a lot by the field of work and norms can develop which are relevant to court cases. The music field is a mess, the "Blurred Lines" judgement was total bullshit. But the software field is not without its own copyright history and norms so there's no reason to expect everything to go to hell.
> The entire point is to make it impossible to block ads at the network level.

The entire point is to make DNS secure. For every 1 person who uses DNS to block ads, there are many thousands who just use their ISP's DNS servers, and thus remain subject to surveillance, ads, redirects, and other malice. You can't possibly believe in good faith that the entire point or even the primary point of DoH is to hurt the small fraction of people who use DNS to block ads, rather than to protect the much larger set of people who are subject to the whims and financial interests of their ISP.
I’m not sure how this is significantly worse than the DNS status quo despite being more centralized.

Traditional DNS is very easy for everybody and anybody to snoop and tamper with, including your ISP, the government, the resolver and anybody else with a chunk of network infrastructure on your path. DoH is very hard for anybody but the resolver to snoop or tamper with. The resolvers commit to not selling data and not retaining logs for more than 24h. Of course a court order will take precedence, but we’ve gone from “anybody who cares can see and tamper with your DNS queries” to “just your resolver can see and tamper with your DNS queries, and they’re audited so that'll probably only happen under court order”.

All else held equal the increased centralization would make DoH a step backwards - but all else isn’t held equal, and traditional DNS is such a bad protocol that most of the advantages of its decentralization don’t actually manifest. And it’s not like the DNS protocol weaknesses are hypothetical - they’re used en masse by regimes and corporations around the world. With that in mind, I’d say default-on is a reasonable decision.
>Our main takeaway from the current review is that approximately 1,000 hours of lifetime cellphone use, or about 17 minutes per day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60% increase in brain cancer.

Sanity check:

If that study would be correct, it should show up national statistics. Brain cancers rates have decreased from the 90s. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
For the majority it cuts down legitimate activities and a healthy social life, though.
A similar argument could have been made for solar power in the 1980s - just a PR tool distracting from the only economically viable energy choices of nuclear or oil.

But we have cheap and viable solar energy today because of decades of work to make it economically viable. So tarring carbon removal or any other technology that could feasibly improve or stabilize a damaged climate could be strangling future pillars of climate response.
Yeah, it does seem pretty easy to use!

What inspired you to make this, by the way?
There are many other feedback effects too, for example plants grow more massive faster in warmer temperatures and with higher fractions of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Despite many hysterical media reports conflating global climate change with regional droughts this can not be a global effect, higher temperatures, instead, lead to greater percipation from greater water vapour production. Thus higher temperatures at lower lattitudes could result in icecap growth in polar regions increasing albedo and thermal inertia. These are just a few of the countervailing feedback effects. The bottom line is the that the climate system as whole is extremely complicated and has been self-rebalancing for literally billions of years. I seriously doubt that a few 10s of decades of burning fossils will result in an earth that was uninhabitable.

Chixculub impactor in Yucatan 65 million years ago vaporised a huge amount of carbonate rock (eg limestone) due to the particular geology of where it hit. I wonder how that compared to the amount of carbon humans have emmited over the past several hundred years from coal and burning marine algae fossils carbon (oil, natural gas).

It is clear to me that what is really driving the "climate crisis" is rent seeking by politicians, media, scientists. Special interests always love a crisis they can benefit from.
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I have had problems all my life, worst is diving into water and impacting wax and water leading to all sorts of issues including fungal ones that are hard to treat. Doctor said I "make a lot of wax, probably genetic". One ear is very narrow due to swimmers ear.

Then I discovered the use of hydrogen peroxide - it just eats and softens the wax, my 16 year old pulled out an enormous wad this way and all of sudden could hear properly.

Now I am sure the ear doctors will freak, but I put hydrogen peroxide that my wife uses for her hair on a cotton bud and put it in my ear/s.

After a while you will hear hissing and popping as it starts to work. You may need to repeat quite a few times to get thru it enough to lodge or loosen it, but this worked for me a number of times after multiple failed syringing's.
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> forcing the company to hire government-approved executives seems like a slippery slope.

Think is this closer to the GDPR requiring the Data Protection Officer role. I don't it needs to be govt-approved. Not in favour of the overreach by the govt here, but it's not quite as bad as that. They want a single point of contact they can put pressure on.
Lapland (Finland) has had record heat of 34 C this year. UK is regularly getting well into the 30s now. Hit a record of 38.7 C in Cambridge a couple years back. Not quite the current N America heat dome temps, but given that hardly anyone living in Seattle in the 2000 would've ever imagined they'd see 42C just 21 yrs later, I think the lesson is nowhere is immune.
I've had similar emotional reactions to hearing about Europeans censoring/surveilling their citizens (openly, unlike in the US where it still happens but it's "secret" and illegal.)
Curfews prevent important positive social behaviour and incubate a fearful mindset that increases anxiety and depression. Animals are happiest when they are free even if it means risk. Take a look at caged animals, they lose their shit. Locking people inside is a net negative experience and detrimental to a healthy society.
It was soooo cringy and I think that's why i liked it.

Going to the old BTC or crypto meetups was like going to a warhammer turny. No one showered, everyone smelled like shit and you always had those wannabe prophets preaching about a 'New World Order'. Everyone laughed along and never took it too seriously. Same thing now but people act like those prophets have something interesting to say because they are in a $10k suit and screaming "Fuck Elon" on stages haha.
So the landlords just make the rent more expensive to account for having to pay the broker, what changed?
I'm pretty excited for the Linux kernel to take three weeks to build.
There's a lot of lament that this bypasses the operating system level config, but I feel like we wouldn't be here if the operating system had stepped up their DNS any time in the last several years.

This is a workaround for the fact that many networks are hostile to DNS lookups (injecting ads, tracking, captive portals), and operating systems continue to just default to the ISPs DNS provider, which is often hostile.

OS's could have switched to running their own local caching resolver ala unbound years ago, could have integrated DNSCrypt or DoT years ago. But instead the defaults are still horribly unsecure for the average user.

For the techie user who's running PiHole or some custom local DNS, yeah this will be annoying, but for the average user who's just delegating to their ISP that is then tracking their DNS lookups and injecting ads if they mistype a domain, this is a win.
Two possible concerns with "radiation":

a) individual rays/particles have enough energy to knock electrons off ("ionizing radiation"). This is dependent on wavelength/frequency, not the amount of radiation, so even small amounts can be possibly problematic.

b) quantity of radiation brings enough energy to heat things up, cause damage through heating.

Cell phones have neither problem.
You can point Firefox to any DoH provider you like, but there is no setting to set multiple DoH providers. If you are concerned about DoH providers tracking you, it seems like using two DoH providers would give each of them half your browsing history, which probably covers all the same sites as your full browsing history.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
I don't understand what you're trying to say. What are you contradicting with "Not really"? The claim above you is "by this definition, program incorrectness isn't semidecidable either". You're saying that it is?
Landlords being able to require proof of no evictions in rent history makes sense (even though it absolutely makes life worse for people who fell on any form of hardship), but why are landlords even allowed to demand proof of no felonies?!
> 97+% of climate scientists

People should understand what that 97% number means. It means that from the papers that addressed the global warming or any effect AND made a position on it, 97% acknowledged that at least to some degree that humans do indeed contribute to global warming. That is the bar for the 97% number.

97% does not address:
- how much humans contribute to global warming

- how large the positive feedback effects are (without these, there is little warming from CO2 alone)

- how bad global warming will be

- what are the right policies to address it

What happens in public discourse is that people just dangle the 97% to justify anything, literally anything they say.

You don't want diesel engines? but 97%....why do you hate polar bears?

You don't want to ban plastic straws? 97% of scientists want to ban them

You don't want to live in a small house? but 97%...why do you hate the planet?

You don't think *this* hurricane is caused by global warming? 97% of scientists disagree

Thermometer shows 100F today in Arizona, it's because of global warming, 97% of scientists agree.

It's getting ridiculous, to be honest. It's the pinnacle of appeal to authority.
>these findings never come from physicists or engineers working on wireless technologies

nor would I expect them to. if we are talking about cell damage, i'm not wanting to hear from an electrical engineer. i want to hear from a medical professional specializing in cellular activity. a cancer doctor, some sort of micro biologist, or something in that realm would be much more credible when discussing the damage of cells due to whatever cause.

Show me studies where these doctors are working with physicists to setup the RF in controlled environments to study the effects of the radio waves on cellular activity, then I'll be much more interested. There's just too much fringe people pushing this that my natrual inclinations is to not believe it. However, that's not to say that I am unwilling to change my mind if shown actual evidence versus what's there now. I'm just saying I haven't seen any.
I don't know much about Botswana (I've been to other nearby countries in Africa, but not there), but just from looking at things like it's Gini index I'm skeptical. It definitely appears much better off than its neighbors though and seems to be on a good trajectory.
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I don't think defaulting to or depending on recruiters is good advice.

The only time I would suggest that is if the place you want to be hired at only hires through recruiters. Otherwise you should find a way to apply directly to the company.
True, except in this case NY is one of the few places in the world that requires such nonsense.
There are a lot of posts here debating if licenses still apply when copilot generates verbatim code. The answer is yes.

Copilot is currently a technical preview. Github has already said they intend to detect verbatim code and notify the user and present the correct license. That'll be in the final release.

Don't use the technical preview for anything except demoing a cool concept. It's not ready for that yet because it will reproduce licensed code and not tell you.
I think it would be pretty easy to stake opinions on those "boolean questions."

Is (was?) a swipe gesture novel? Is it non-obvious?
I think it's important to consider climate restoration. Future people likely won't appreciate the climate they'll inherit, and will deserve the technologies to remediate our poor choices.
Sure, but these radio waves don't get very far in atmosphere. So the sun's radio waves barely reach us.
A more realistic and positive solution is to just give parents the societal support they need to be productive and also raise children.
We started Seam (YC S20) a year ago to take on the problem of programmatic access to physical spaces (apartments, single-family homes, commercial buildings...etc).

Basically one API that can open any door (smart locks, elevators, commercial buildings...etc). We're still in private beta but feel free to reach out if you're struggling with programmatic access.

tbh, it's baffling that in 2021, this problem is still so difficult to solve. As a last point, we generally recommend against key-exhange solutions. From our experience at Sonder, people forget to return the keys and it creates a lot logistical headaches. You then have to re-key the doors...etc.
> The fda has put all the good vape shops out of business and extortionate taxes are killing the rest as people revert back to cigarettes

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'll just point out the observation that there are a lot of perverse incentives to keep the tobacco money flowing, public health be damned. Hell, remember back 2019 public health officials were running made-up 'e-cigarettes are causing lung injury' scare which turned out to be entirely caused by contaminated black market THC cartriges? SF still hasn't walked back their e-cigarette ban that led to a doubling of tobacco use by high schoolers[1].

To give an idea of where priorities are, the state of California does 10x the number of checks to make sure stores are paying their cigarette taxes as they do to make sure stores aren't selling to minors.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
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Let's be specific. The Government requested the takedown of the hashtag, #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide

This seems reasonable.
Not sure whether this proves turing completeness of the preprocessor or not(probably not) but Simon Tatham has a great(and somewhat disturbing) write-up[1] on creating arbitrary control structures using macros in C. He even goes as far as providing a library of helper macros for doing things like making gensyms, etc.

If nothing else, it does demonstrate that you can do a lot more in the preprocessor than you might think, and this is at least a significant subset of what true MP macros are used for in Lisp most of the time. Except much gnarlier...

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/mp/
Where are you going to find a control group that hasn't had exposure to man made emf? This really can't be studied now days.
No, they are not.

The consumer price depends only on supply and demand. Fees don't influence none of it, only the cost of the selling party and thus his profit.
This article triggers my nostalgia. I like it.

Very similar to how we methodology-philes talked back in the 90s. Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, Luke Hohmann's Journey of the Software Professional, etc.

Thanks for posting. IISM.org is a great find. More like this, please.
I believe it's this one: https://www.aaflalo.me/2018/10/dns-over-https-with-pi-hole/
But this comes from “electromagnetic field scientists”.
Yes, because basically every retail chain a) can dump a lot of externalities on society at large, b) is or wants to be publicly traded and evaluated on very short-term metrics, and c) is run by believers in the managerialist ideology that dominates American business culture.

Broken systems product broken systems.
It would be helpful to include your location so as to get replies that ideally take into account your state/province/country's labour laws/HR regulations per your rights and how much, when and best way to disclose to your employer.
>PoW undermines our attempts to fight climate change, there's tons of examples of fossil fuel power plants being used for the sole purpose of running "crypto" "currencies".

No. There's literally one single concrete example of this happening [0] and a lot of moral busybodies wasting time with rounding errors instead of focusing on the big global climate disasters going on right now.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l...
No, I think they're looking for people who are intrinsically motivated by the drive to do a professional job applying their craft, rather than to use a project as an opportunity to experiment with technology that they want to learn for their own curiosity or career trajectory.

In the same way, when you hire a contractor build you a garage, you look for someone who will use their experience to build a good garage with the best materials and techniques keeping in mind the priorities of the owner, like maintainance, cost, appearance, resalability, etc. You don't want someone showing up who just views your garage primarily as an opportunity to learn about this new construction material they've heard about that doesn't help you.
> This was really well written, such a good read.

The author's extreme user empathy, attention to detail, and willingness to do whatever it takes to reach a standard makes this a comforting read. You know it's going to end without disappointment, because he does whatever it takes to get good results for all stakeholders.
• No clue.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation

• No clue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_activity doesn't apply. (This is a crank warning sign.)

• This is too generic to answer out of context.

• Same as the above, perhaps with the naturalistic fallacy thrown in (also a crank warning sign).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging

Of your six quotes, only two (maybe three) of them are crank warning signs, and two have clear, well-defined meanings.
i.e. "I got a better offer at Twitter"
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I don't know your situation but is it possible to quit and then apply for unemployment under medical reasons, friend?

"When Can You Quit Your Job and Still Receive Unemployment Benefits?"
"Medical reasons. In many states, an employee who quits because of an illness, injury, or disability may remain eligible for unemployment. Some states require that the medical condition be linked to the job. In other words, the employee is covered only if the work caused or aggravated the medical condition."
People like OP actually scares me, the fact they cannot understand that is "exactly the same" makes me think chauvinism has taken over the rational part of the brain and anything, no matter how horrible, could be justified if done by "the right people".
Yep! There's a lot of .unwrap() and .expect() in the codebase, so it panics. Since it's Rust, you get a line number and an error message rather than a segfault.

I will tidy it up at some point, but I spend too much time throwing away ideas that don't work. Defensive code is silly if you delete it after!
This implies lower effective dose per antenna, correct? Meaning it's conceivable to have a higher effective dose per person if there is a high enough increase in antenna exposure (wherever that antenna count threshold is)?

I'm not saying that means it's dangerous, just trying to clarify.
continuous wave

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_wave
>the entire point is to make it impossible to block ads

the entire point is to make it impossible to modify DNS requests at the network level. this has a lot more serious consequences than just blocking ads. especially for the parties involved with this, none of whom are advertising companies. phishing and data security are actual big issues with financial implications that companies want to prevent. just because blocking ads is the consequence that will most immediately impact you personally, doesn't make it the whole point.

this accusation is especially rich on an article about mozilla, one of the few companies fighting to make sure that advertisers don't control the application level.
Google is a threat to democracy around the planet. That much power in the hands of a few people puts us in a serf like position where the peoples voice is drowned out. What google wants google gets and if you stand in their way.....You already know.
I'm so glad to hear that. It should be very simple to implement a plugin. Once I'm able to, I'll create it and let you know! :)
> If licensing still apply when copilot generates the code. The answer is yes.

Please provide a source for this.
Like all metrics, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

As others have said, the marine bio systems contains organisms from unicellular to whale scale. For most purposes a count is meaningless.

For a headline, you need a heart-tugging number.
same as Mac vs Windows today. Cheapest Mac Laptop $999. Cheapest Windows laptop $199, $299?

https://www.amazon.com/Laptops-Under-500-Computers-Tablets/s...

posted from a mac
Assuming that copilot is a violation of copyright on GPL works, it would also be a violation of non-GPL copyrighted works, including public but, but fully copyrighted works. Therefor relicensing others source code under GPL would violate even more copyright.
Consider HN.

What do you think the main feed and discussion might look like if moderation was not allowed?

Likewise for any special-interest sub-reddit you might subscribe to.

I think these things will be very substantially changed, for the worse, if content moderation isn't allowed.
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The rent price depends on supply and demand, not on landlords costs.
Related : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328404 ( 1 month ago, 139 comments )

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