skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I'm saying is that on net allowing juul to exist implies that the entirety of society is harmed including the people who pay taxes for the medical care required by people's vices as has been true of the industry to which they are heir.

I don't even know what to make of this. How many other things do humans do that are dangerous that we all have to pay for?

> They have clearly marketed themselves to young people who otherwise wouldn't have taken up smoking.

Why do you think this? Is it because of flavors? Do you not realize how many adults prefer flavored vape liquid? Or is it cause they ran commercials?

> I think the entire industry ought to be taxed out of existence like boiling a frog not because I want other people to "suffer" but because I don't want people to suffer.

So then you naturally try to force your opinion onto others. Why has society devolved into forcing others to do what we want? Do you think banning vapes will keep people from returning to cigarettes? Do you think addiction is just a switch one can easily turn on and off? You will cause more damage than good "taxing them out of existence like a boiling frog" (seriously wtf with that statement?) than realizing they are helping people and just minding your own business.
You can't compare india's situation with other countries.

SouthIndia has replacement rate below 2.
The hindi belt is still trending 2.3+

The above legislation is introduced in a Uttar Pradesh, which is still overpopulated when compared to other states.

The legislation wont work at country level, but i have susupicions if it works at state level.

Awaiting for more details.
incentivizing sterilisations seems like a slippery slope for a democracy.

next step is having more than 2 kids will wreck your credit score and this kid will be denied higher education. this is some text book china shit.
I don't understand why a population decrease should be resulting in "huge problems". I am sure it's possible to maintain or even increase happiness and relative wealth while growing smaller.

For earth in total, it would be great to see a smaller number of humans.
Or they could make it a multi-part name, like Bronze Kerberos. That way, they can keep the connotation they want, but _
Spotify barely pays musicians anything. It's basically legalized piracy for music.

This was even laid out explicitly in a recent leak from a former Spotify boss: https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-doesnt-need-str...

> The problem was this: piracy and music distribution. The problem was to get artists' music out there. The problem was not to pay people money.
I find it scary that preverbal children can use phones and tablets. You can train animals to do that too.
I think the silent, automatic updates and wide-reaching permissions that aren't communicated in an understandable way to end users are the real issues.
I have directly observed and interacted with quite a few people who went through that process. Those who stayed in the village, or kept a social network there despite moving to the city, more or less all speak it still despite having learned French in school and being told the patois was best forgotten. Those who despise it the most and don't speak it anymore are those who moved out, climbed the social ladder and became mid or upper class in a city. Schooling certainly favoured that outcome, but it was ultimately determined by economics. If France had followed a less radical path, Occitan, Breton and others would be declining instead of dying, but they'd still end dead soon enough.

On a side note, I find the whole victim mentality attached to that subject deplorable, in particular coming from young people who've never been through any sort of actual oppression. People have all the tools nowadays to perpetuate their language, but there's a lot more whining than actually putting the work into teaching it to their kids and actively speaking it.
> the burying/sinking of organic matter

Sure, if you bury wood in deep mines and seal them, you are removing carbon from the biosphere. But for that, it doesn't really matter if it was wood that you grew or an already existing forest. The mere act of planting is neutral, it's the burying that is important.

By that, you notice that it would be fairly idiotic to keep unearthing old carbon and burying new carbon at the same time. Thus, it is absolutely essential to stop unearthing million-year-old carbon and putting it in circulation.
> No. A reproducible build is a guarantee that two builders of the same codebase, or the same codebase built multiple times, will result in a bit-for-bit identical of all other builds of the same codebase, every time, guaranteed.

That's what I said :)

> Please educate yourself before dying on a hill for a topic you're misrepresenting entirely.

I'll say the same. I've only been doing this for near 30 years ;)

But here you go, here's one example:

1) copy source to destination directory
2) run private npm
3) use private npm repo
4) freeze private npm repo
5) use npm install like normal

here's another:

1) check all node_modules directories into version control
2) ensure no native packages are used
3) copy entire directory structure to destination dir

You are clearly inexperienced, or very focused on node.js only.
Man, that sounds like it would work, but what an annoying workaround for a stupid problem on their side - which I guess has to do with music licensing in different jurisdictions.

Makes me think of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyVZFm7P0CQ

I was just going to make this comment, but it's funny how stuff "in the cloud" has jurisdictions. I'm reminded of a Saudi Arabian guy I sat next to on a plane from Austria to Turkey. He couldn't get iTunes on his iPad to play stuff because... he was in the wrong region. Serves him (and his girlfriend) right, they came on board the plane as the last 2 people carrying six large shopping bags as carry-ons.
* R scales to big data, runs on servers
* Excel is full of foot guns - e.g. errors in ranges are hidden unless you dig in
* R you can write test suite and run it in CI
* R integrates nicely with cloud services via reticulate
* R’s Shiny is great for interactivity and deploys to the web
* R and git support you to collaborate - PR reviews etc
* automatable - run analysis in a pipeline when data arrives and publish results on the web
* white box / transparency - who knows what Excel does exactly in some of its functions
* data science - Excel doesn’t do machine learning, NLP
Agreed, My bad.
Two thoughts,

1) educating women must take at least ten years to show up in birth rates

2) women with fewer children might have an easier time educating themselves & getting the snowball going
Contemptible humour, they know they could deliver ML soundalikes if they tried! Harumph!
Follow up:

"Rust after the Honeymoon"

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeym...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24747492
Zuck fuck youerberg
Dr. Richard Hipp responds to a bug report (2012)
Heh, then it’s no accident your username references Snow Crash.
Or they could make it a multi-part name, like Bronze Kerberos. That way, they can keep the connotation they want, but avoid the problems of squatting on a used name.
Space might loose that virginity status regardless the size.
The 80km line can actually be measured objectively by physical properties and the FAI is considering making that their definition.

https://www.fai.org/news/statement-about-karman-line

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651...

etc
Not all programming is art, just as not all painting is art.

And some math formulas are considered beautiful, and art is in the eye of the beholder, so even the optimal solutions might be art to some.
An ideal "code view" of Excel could be a declarative programming language that states the relations that hold between cells, for example a logic programming language such as Prolog or Datalog, using constraints to express the relations.
For "R" substitute any modern programming language. Python with numpy, for example.
Because R has a million scientific libraries to enable very specialized research workflows and excel doesn't.
FDA’s ban on the use of electric shock devices overturned
so you agree then?
Pfffff!! In Argentina you could go to brick and mortar computer stores with your box of blank floppies and ask them to copy whatever game you wanted from a long dot-matrix printed list in a binder.

Years later, with CD writers, there was a website called “Ed Sullivan and his Cambodian slaves” [sic] with a long list of movies and TV shows you could have delivered home in a couple of days. Or just stroll to the park in the center of town where several stalls offered copies of all types of computer software, MP3 collections, games, movies, etc.

… There were also guys on trains, carrying a portable CD player, speakers and a battery, who sold music and movies.
They allow you to give it away but you can't be signed up to the kdp program.
You won’t be running modded minecraft on a Pi.

I feel like most people on this site could afford a small gaming machine, though.
All of the "recommended" addons for Firefox (and maybe the most popular ones too?) are regularly reviewed by Mozilla for malicious code. I haven't heard of any problems with those ( probably because most problems are caught before they get pushed to users)
full title: FDA’s ban on the use of electric shock devices used at Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts overturned, truncated due to HN title length limit
Igloo Stay in Manali: All You Need to Know
Some people also have a biphasic sleep pattern rather than a monophasic one. For them sleeping 6 hours at night and one in the afternoon might be better.
>Just don't have ...

"Idiocracy"(2006) scenario :-)
Thanks again for all the feedback. Short update:
I'm using DELETE now, since it feels a bit more accurate. As a side effect, the page is way more responsive. :)

Have fun sharing secrets. C.
For me, it comes down to the right tool for the job. Excel (strictly speaking, spreadsheets) is very powerful. It is a grid-based visual programing environment that has an interface simple enough to be groked by its original target audience: accountants and file clerks.

What that means to me is that I use excel for "toys" (small data set analysis, rough charts) and ephemeral-yet-shared lists where it is easier to say "evening batch tab, line 3" to communicate which job needs to be updated than try to communicate the same thing in a written request or pull a database table report.

I use R where I need more power: automated reports, automated statistics, and more complex analysis where the paradigm of textual code fits better than the paradigm of a 2D grid. I teach R (or python) when I want to give someone more reproduceable tools than a "magic" spreadsheet that, under the covers, is really a contraption held together with sticky tape and positive thinking.

We can, and should, teach both. Ideally side-by-side with a constant stream of "why are you doing task X this way?" that is largely missing from formal education.
IDK, a lot of other countries actually experienced a baby boom immediately after end of a war. There are pro-natality effects to a war->peace transition. Men coming back and wanting to leave the bad experience behind by founding families. End of rationing system for food and other life necessities. Real estate demand decreasing because a lot of young people were killed.
Subjectivity is mostly an aspect of fine art (and some coarser ones, depending on your definition of 'fine'.) Originally, art was a more general concept, making something artificial by using skills that don't just come naturally.
MD Party – A lightweight library to generate a website from Markdown files
Superficially agree, but I would like to point out that while a tree is neutral, a forest is more of a sink, because as trees die new ones germinate. Thus the forest can retain carbon indefinitely.
who pays for all the old people?
If you need to do something once, use a GUI (Excel).

If you need to do something ten times, use hotkeys and shortcuts.

If you need to do something a hundred times, write a script (R).

I usually use the command line as the example for why writing code and scripts are better than the more intuitive and lower-learning-curve GUIs.

If I want to move a file from one folder to another then I just drag it across. Easy.

If I want to move a thousand files from one folder to another, I will benefit from learning `CTRL-A` or shift-clicking (slightly more obscure than the 'intuitive' drag each file across individually or drag a large box around them all to select them).

If I want to move a thousand files beginning with 'UTR-77' and ending with '.csv' then I would benefit from learning `mv UTR-77*.csv $folder`, but I could still do it manually if I didn't know that was an option.

If I want to move a thousand files beginning with 'URT-77' to another folder at a moment's notice or at Thursday 1am, then the only options I really have are scripting.

I almost feel like before people learn the 'basic' stuff as outlined at the beginning of the article, they should be shown some 'magic' that is only really possible with scripting so that it's clear from the outset why you wouldn't 'just use excel'.
I highly recommend anybody getting into R to skip the base language (which indeed is ancient and full of gotchas) and go straight for the Tidyverse[1]. You can always go back in and learn how to do things the old way later.

Over the last decade, the R community has largely standardized around tools like dplyr, ggplot, tibble, purrr, and so on that make doing data science work way easier to reason about. Much more ergonomic. At my company we switched from using Python to using R for most analytical data science work because the Tidyverse tools make it so much easier to avoid bugs and weird join issues than you get in a more imperative programming environment.

[1] https://www.tidyverse.org/
Half the worlds population lives on less than $5.50 per day. If you offered them 20 EUR they wouldn’t use it on a vaccine for a highly survivable disease (Compared to HIV, Malaria, and TB), they’d use it to buy food and water.
Forests in steady state are carbon neutral. This is an important insight not widely spread. They're also oxygen neutral.

But a new forest will be a large carbon sink if allowed to remain.

Individual trees are also great carbon sinks, as long as the resulting wood is not consumed.

I wonder about just growing trees/bamboo and storing the logs on big piles as a carbon sink.

Or what if we GMO some algae that grabs carbon through photosynthesis, and then sinks to the ocean floor?
I find it weird to say that not taking care of yorself is accepting the ageing process. I like to think that doing everything you can is the 'normal' behavior.
Climate change and population growth are separate issues.
Promptly censored here on HN.
The joke about R is that it is great because it was written by statisticians for statisticians and that R is terrible because it was written by statisticians for statisticians.

The two best reasons to use R, IMO, are that many statisticians write up their new methods in R, so it is a window into current statistical research and practice [0], and that R is home to ggplot and the rest of the tidyverse (or Hadley-verse), a systematic approach to common data analysis tasks.

[0] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_b...

[1] https://www.tidyverse.org/
Issue is resolved. Using DELETE request now, which feels a bit more accurate. Blocking crawlers is no longer needed, which also benefits page speed! Thanks again for the input. C.
DeepMind just published a paper "Reward is enough":
Furthermore, we suggest that agents that learn through trial and error experience to maximise reward could learn behaviour that exhibits most if not all of these abilities, and therefore that powerful reinforcement learning agents could constitute a solution to artificial general intelligence.
In the case of a fork in the chain the network decides the winner based on which fork ends up being longer. If blocks are being mined too quickly then forks become more likely and the state of the chain is more volatile as the current "winner" keeps flipping around.

Blocks being mined too slowly is a more obvious problem: less transaction throughput.
That's not very challenging to set up. Especially if the PC happens to be a laptop.
So many of these genres are applied to works long after they have been completed. For example, The Flintstones are labeled as stonepunk, even though it originally aired in the early 60s.
Isn't it a classic rate equation? If all young people die immediately, sure, we're in deep shit. But with increasing productivity and improved health care a graceful decrease should be possible.
> claiming Assad never used chemical weapons

You mean the assertion made by western governments without any actual evidence and which was later confirmed to be politically motivated by OPCW whistleblowers? Where have I seen this script before? Oh right, it's because it was the same one used in Iraq.
Unless you need the frontier of statistical methods and are unable to code them yourself, I highly recommend not engaging R.

While Hadley Wickham has done amazing things to make the R language actually useful, Python and Julia are better for data applications. Also, bindings to the R language exist, obviating the need to be tied into it completely. Thus, even if you need the frontier, you have it available to you.
rstudio is an excellent gui for R. So you can already start with R.
There seems to be a range of different experiences.

My eigengrau is not completely uniform: there are subtle variations in monochrome intensity. If I concentrate on the eigengrau, interesting patterns can appear. I have some indirect conscious control over the patterns. For example, if I concentrate and ask for a red spot to appear, usually some shade of dim red will appear forming some pattern, but I don't have control over the details. I lost this ability some number of years ago, then practiced until I got it back.

I can only do this in perfect darkness with a lot of concentration, and I need practice to maintain and improve the ability. I think it's like this article titled "Direct Control of the Visual Field", where you teach yourself to control the Eigengrau: <https://zenodo.org/record/1429102>

The article on Visual Snow shows an actively animated noise field, and I don't see any animation unless I'm really in the groove. The Visual Snow article also implies that it causes distress, and that sufferers seek medical treatment to make it go away. That doesn't apply to me. I have never used hallucinogens, I've never had a migraine, etc. I consider myself creative, so that might be correlated.
> Software Development by contrast has no standards

That's not true in the context of medical and car software. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262
Thanks my guy
The fertility rate of the state in question might be more relevant here which seems to be about 3.0 [0].

These conversations miss the fact that the actual distribution of the people in the country is very relevant. If you have ever been to UP, you would know how it is overflowing with people.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
T&D must be sized for the peak of usage, meaning that most of the capacity sits idle, except for the extreme situations. If that peak is reduced, T&D upgrades and expansions are delayed as our energy demand grows, and all the equipment is used more efficiently. (And just as transmission has been neglected in the US for a long time, so has distribution, and we are going to need a ton of upgrades as energy demand grows while we electrify our energy usage.)

In nearly every market, energy use peaks at mid-day, just as solar is peaking. So distributed solar is a peak-shaving system, whereas centralized utility solar still requires the same big peak.

Distributed storage reduces both troughs and peaks, and makes T&D even more efficient.
I consider software development an engineering discipline.

In my weird, crazy world, engineering is all about discipline (sound of a riding crop slapping a leather-clad thigh), and follow-through. It's a lot less about slide rules and differential equations.

I believe that the Romans that built aqueducts (often using coerced labor -otherwise known as "slaves") were engineers. They had a lousy numbering system, no concept of trig (although a few had heard of Pythagorus), and not even a slide rule; yet they were able to build massive, well-designed structures that still stand, to this day, nearly three millenia later.

I can't use some Web sites that are just over a year old, because their components went belly-up.

But I also consider software development to be a craft. That's really my approach.

When I write software, I make a personal level of investment into the outcome. The project must complete. Even when I'm working with a test harness, on a project that is nothing more than an experimental platform, I treat it as if it were a shipping product, that I plan to display in the store window. In fact, I often revisit truncated experimental efforts, in order to scrounge snippets. Since they are already "ship" quality, those snippets tend to be quite useful.

A basic habit of mine, is that all of my code "ships," even when it doesn't. That's a craftsman attitude. Getting the project to "ship" state is an engineering effort.

But that's just me. YMMV.
She wanted some metoo spotlight.

You will find the people who you think believe in your cause actually believe in their own cause which might be fame, power, money. They will quickly leave a cause that is fading in popularity to jump on the next bandwagon.
Yes! nicotine by itself at normal dosage is a fairly mild nootropic (with cognitive 'benefits') similar in ways to caffiene or theobromine (in chocolate).. I don't think anyone should have to explain why they might use any of these things as part of their daily life. (Apologies! I'm just automatically defensive about this coz I live in Australia where the law is still "a bit slow" (ie still quite backwards) regarding nicotine).

Nicotine currently has a very negative reputation globally because of humanity's recent past emphatuation with igniting and inhaling tobacco smoke, (which certainly can cause lung-trouble!) but I think the general stigma is currently too strong around nicotine itself.. it's just not that potent (psychoactiveness-wise), nor has much if any overdose-potential, nor toxicity (compared to other common things even!) "So what" if ppl want to ingest it, I say!

And surely no surprise at all to see that people with the best-functioning brains in old age were still seeking out these nootropic levers! I'd bet they probably also had ethanol, tea, coffee, chocolate, etc (etc!) too.. (whichever ones worked for them) to keep things interesting!

Maybe consciousness has some kind of self-existence validity-check built into it, the output of which fundamentally affects the physical outcome, beyond lifestyle, or genes?
Here, take this for-profit, inelastic demand service you need right now without seeing the prices. Trust us. You won't be bankrupt soon. Like, what are you going to do? Get up from the ER gurney and comparison shop at another hospital?
"Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel"

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...

"Align numerical precision Excel 2013 and R"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39531655/align-numerical...

"Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft...
I think a fairer question today would be "Why do we use R rather than M?"

https://www.howtoexcel.org/power-query/m-code/
Locking down channels on TV is trivial. Decent set-top boxes have parental controls options, so you can lock out those types of channels with a PIN.
I wonder if contacting Apple to adjust the age might work
He is still upset by that Gini deal... #privateJoke