skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like tobacco/nicotine. I have a cigar collection, I love my pipes, I'll have an occasional (10 this year, so far) cigarette, and I vape on-and-off.

I despise big tobacco. They remove the craft from the product. A well-made cigar or a masterfully blended pipe tobacco is akin to a fine whiskey: meant to be enjoyed in moderation and with a mind for the experience that went into making it. Even a hand-rolled cigarette using locally-grown tobacco has a degree of craft involved.

Vapes are just a convenient, relatively harmless delivery mechanism, but they're removed so far from the tobacco plant that I can't bring myself to consider them in the same category. They're a separate vice.

Point is, tobacco is a wonderful plant that lends itself to being cultivated and artfully made into fine products. Marlboros are little cancer sticks, and I wish Big Tobacco all my worst. Thanks for ruining it.
The fees and inconvenience are only an issue for regular traders that are repeatedly buying and selling. For 6+ figure amounts it is even better to use 'over the counter' peer-to-peer services. Companies that are buying hundreds of millions worth are not using exchanges. I found it easy to do 5 figure trades even in 2014. There are significant fees and inconveniences when moving fiat to centralised exchanges so it evens out.
NZ Indigenous movement to reclaim ownership of their heritage through blockchain
Wise. Social smoking is a great experience, and I'm not sure why. Definitely hard to quantify.
It would be cool to imagine Dr Fauci speaking in Freddish!
[Thanks to all the brits for educating me! I did not realize there where bands of SWE pay that were relatively well compensated.

I have also learned a lot about perceptions of the U.S. Later tonight, when I don the armor I constructed from discarded soda bottles, and leave my home storage locker to scavenge the dumpster scraps from a Kardashian's birthday party, I will reflect on the downsides of Americans' societal choices.]
There is zero evidence -- I mean literally, none, go look for yourself -- that emissive screens are better for your eyes in any way than reflective one. Shining a lightbulb directly into your eyes isn't any worse than shining a lightbulb at a mirror with dark spots on it.
> M9 is 1000x more powerful than M6

I assume you're using moment magnitude [1] since it's the most common measure. In fact every 2 integers is a 1000 times increase [2] so M8 is 1000 times more powerful than M6.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude#Definition
Yes, it’s a no-brainer for you to not choose it.
Does the author ever explain why they aren't vaccinated? I only skimmed the very long post, looking for a reason. They claim a medical reason for their spouse, and then jump to saying they oppose mandates. They'd be more credible as someone who opposes mandates for reasons other than being an anti-vaxxer if they were vaccinated personally, or at least had some fig-leaf reason for not being vaccinated other than opposing mandates. Refuse to use the app if you wish to take a costly stand, but get vaccinated!
It seems like blogging is a hard thing for people to monetize, especially for some topics that aren't so "sponsor friendly"
Do you think most doctors are in it to stitch you up?
I'm not so sure. I went to existential therapy for some years. My therapist was fairly certain I wouldn't kill myself, and my ideation was just an open examination of the various options. I used to talk about being embarrassed after a social situation and wanting to walk into a plane propeller and be turned into red mist. She'd casually ask if I was going to do it and I was like, of course not. She said she wasn't worried about me.

My whole point in this thread is that suicide is always, fundamentally irrational. I keep getting downvoted for it, but I think it's an important point - especially for people who consider themselves rational beings but also include suicide in the list of things they'd consider as options.
I've made a habit of putting myself through nicotine withdrawal (I like the on-edge feeling, yes I'm weird), and smokers who quit deserve a lot of credit. It's hard, and I don't think anyone who hasn't been through it would understand how hard it is.
when they are no longer a public traded company

this sort of negative coverage and waning consumer demand should also trigger Apple to discount the new phone or prior models to hit volume targets for wall street
Personally I don’t agree with ‘journey before destination’ that much.

You may enjoy digging the ditch, but ultimately I would enjoy spending the same time on something more useful a lot better.
Why are they singling out Alabama to try and fit their narrative? Several US States [1] are in a similar position.

[1] https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/snapshot/2020-deaths-exce...
The use case for Bitcoin is a savings vehicle. The global financial system has reached a tipping point where it is incapable of providing a store of value for people who have accumulated capital without crashing the system and causing mass devastation. The fact that so many people still do not understand this tells me we have tremendous upside remaining.
My experience is people know the “good hospitals” and “bad hospitals”, much like they know “good schools” and “bad schools” or even the “good DMVs” and “bad DMVs”.

The problem is most people have no choice.

For ER care individual doctor ratings are unimportant, because you have no idea who the doctor will be.

What matters is the institution. And they absolutely do have reputations.

For example, Kaiser Permenante has a reputation so foul it’s known nationwide, despite only operating a few states.

Also, I’ve never had any difficulty getting an ambulance to take me to the ER of my choice (that is, my insurers choice), and I’ve done this many, many times.
Tighten the border. Hardcore drug trafficking is correlated to lax border enforcement. Same for sex trafficking. Cartels are international criminal enterprises. They are taking advantage of the situation to make tons of money in vice.
Couldn’t wasm be compiled down to either a stack or register based VM equally well?

The text version is basically an ast (with the binary form being a desugared version of that) so you could do whatever you want to transform into something executable.
Incremental changes are fine- i mean the phone works well and a lot of changes are in the software anyway.

I don't get why people keep expecting a radical change each year. it's like they're looking for an excuse to update their phones annually.

If I wanted a radically different car i would buy a different model (granted there is pretty much only one iphone type).
That explains it then. I never felt the need to make an account since I was just reading. They didn't make it clear that the service was incomplete without an account.
Remember when (now) vice president Harris and all of the other channels' pundits were loudly proclaiming that they wouldn't dare take the vaccine because the wrong political party championed it, and that the FDA and CDC couldn't be trusted?

Remember when we were told by the Director of NIAID that masks wouldnt help? Or that we only needed just so many people to reach herd immunity, but that was later revealed to be an intentional lie so he could later increase the number without it sounding as scary?

Remember when the mayors of DC, LA, SF and a dozen other cities, along with the governors of several states, mandated wearing face masks, then were, on multiple occasions, caught in public settings indoors not social distancing or wearing masks?

Remember when several members of congress were caught putting on face masks for a photo, then immediately removing them again?

Remember the Emmys where none of the stars wore masks but all of the "help" had to?

You reap what you sow indeed. It is amazing that anyone trusts anyone anymore.
Yeah, most hedge fund managers are also absolute trash though.
I've been meaning to use Manyverse for ages, but admittedly I've been delayed by procrastinating setting up my own SSSB pub node.

The DHT sounds nice, in theory, but I heard in practice it doesn't work well which is a shame.
I haven't seen Congress members doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)
> worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance

This should not matter as long as they also have a fully functional USB-C (which I'd guess they do).
I have already but I'm used to it. As I said in my reply, what matters most is concern for those who'll be infected next and those who are already dying.

If awkward language has to be used to rectify things/save lives then so be it (it may as well be me as anyone else). I have difficulty understanding why this is not the correct and proper thing to do. What's so wrong with stating the obvious truth?

It seems to me that these days sensibilities and what people think are more important than saving lives. If this is in fact so, then heaven help us.
Titanic wasn’t even the biggest maritime disaster
Oh, neat. It's `echo hel$\x70` in my shell, but I didn't know bash had a similar mechanism.
ECC DRAM (not parity but at least SECDED) has been the norm in servers for 40 years, and memory mirroring and other RAID-like schemes that add additional redundancy to entire chips or word lines etc has been a thing for decades too.

Even the next consumer DRAM specification (DDR5) will have an internal ECC for the memory arrays. Reliability and yields quite likely mean that even for cheap consumer grade devices it will probably become cheaper to manufacture cells with reliability but covered with redundancy at higher levels (this has been the case for NAND almost since the beginning).

For the past several decades, ECC on consumer DRAM hasn't really been required. It's cheaper and "good enough". I'm guessing software and disks (HDDs, removable media, even early SSDs) were almost certainly the biggest cause of reliability and data loss and corruption issues.
Harris never said she didn’t trust the CDC or FDA. She specifically said she didn’t trust Trump, and would take a vaccine when it was recommended by CDC and FDA.
Prices are from NewEgg (except case)

Xtia Xproto-N $118
ASUS ROG Strix X570-I $268
Ryzen 9 5950X $750
2x Samsung 980 Pro 1TB 2x $180
Team T-Force XTREEM ARGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) $290
Corsair SF 600W $130
LIAN LI GALAHAD AIO 240 $117
2x Cooler Master MasterFan MF120 HALO 2x $ 17
AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 $200

Total: $2267.

Intel Mac Mini with cheap CPU, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD is $2699.
Thanks for considering it. my email address is derek _at_ 3qin.us. Shoot me an email if you want; I may have more ideas.
Just clarifying - does this mean matchmaking for League had geographic affinity (for Valorant this is true I believe)? And was that driven by a desire to ensure tight matchmaking performance latency guarantees or in-game latency goals?
Yesss. Pipe tobacco is an art form, and even if it does shorten your life (certainly less than cigarettes!), the pleasure derived from it is immense.

Plum Pudding is a great blend, too. I'd give Captain Black — Dark a try if I were you. One of the best blends I've had the pleasure of trying, and my wife swears by it.
In Germany there is a term called social insurance mandatory employment. This covers basically every non self employed situation. Where you can live from your capital alone you also do not apply.

At soon as you have an employment you will have to pay a bit up to about 800€ for higher salary levels for public health insurance - half of which you never see in any calculation, payed silently by the employer and the other half reduced from your pay check.

Additionally you pay mandatory retirement insurance, loss of work insurance and old age care taking insurance plus tax. (not sure about translations)

So from 7500€ a month you will end up with about 4900€ after all this, if you are married otherwise you pay a bit more tax. If you cannot find work and cannot pay you have all the same benefits, except the retirement will be minimal.

To sum up have social security with this. Every treatment is payed (sometimes you have to pay a little in top, let's say you want plastic instead of metal teeth fixes, basically for everything not mandatory in the eyes of the doctor you have do pay the difference).

But mandatory stuff is completely covered, up to brain tumor removal with the particle accelerator in Heidelberg or so.

Some fine print:

If you and your wife work both pay for family insurance (so up to 1600 together if both earn very well). If one works alone and pays there is only one payment.

Actually you can opt out op the public health insurance as soon as you reach the maximum. Then you can opt for a private insurance.

To sum up again: with all this Germany is certainly not the place to become filthy rich by saving money from your income as employee. But for about third of your salary you get a a) good infrastructure (tax), b) mediocre but ok, bancruptcy protected retirement, 3) no need to fear health issues from financial side, d) job loss insurance for a year (pays on about 60% after that social security... much less like a flat for the family and 500€) and e) care of a certain degree when of old age.

Quite a good deal for me. Still it's better to save also several 100k for retirement. To become rich here you need to start a business, be very creative or become a top manager or politican like everywhere else.

P.S. 5AM here sorry for bad grammar, typos and information gaps =)
Huh I didn’t think Australia had earthquakes
Do you have links to any of these?
you may enjoy some coverage of the revolving door politics, although this (predictably) hasn't gotten much traction https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/business/accounting-firms...
This might have some ideas, but it looked like no particularly good solutions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817219
From Brisbane: my right eyebrow was raised when I heard about it.
How would you go about doing something like that? Are RFID chips that insecure?
I think you can have both. During those 8 hours you are passionate sometimes about some project you are spearheading. Transferring that to your homelige is the problem. Go home at 5pm.
https://www.rentagoat.com Not kidding.
I like Mac OS and apple products ecosystem. For me, those things plus the nice premium build quality are key and worth the extra costs.

I don’t use windows and not really a fan of spending like 24 hours a year just dealing with Linux driver issues and other headaches only to have a worse user experience.

That’s just my preference though so I’m probably never getting the foundation laptop but think it’s a cool product.
This article is a little frustrating; like a lot of Doctorow's writing it kinda comes from a place of superiority. How are we supposed to know the difference between healthy skepticism and "epistemological chaos" (literally the most ridiculous way of saying that)? It seems like the article's suggestion is "just trust the people who are right". Mmhmm. It also implies that anyone arguing against "what's correct" is doing it knowing they are wrong, or because they have been misled by someone who knew _they_ were wrong -- like the tobacco companies promoting smoking. I don't think that's the case? That's a pretty bleak perspective, but I mean I guess it could be true.

The piece that most resonated with me was "The pandemic revealed the high price [...] of *replacing informed debate with cynical doubt*". Informed debate feels like an absolute lost art thanks to the internet. You can't fit informed debate into a tweet. Or into a Facebook post. And when everyone speaks with absolute confidence on their opinion, how can people distinguish informed opinions from uninformed opinions? This is I believe one of the core problems of the internet today.

Regardless, congrats on the many laptop-full and cigarette-free years :)
I was cooking pancake before my stand up meeting, then the floor was just shuffling at the apartment. Everyone ran off outside the building. It was pretty frightening for first time feeling, apparently the affected areas spread out so far from west to eastern suburbs.
I would recommend relationship counseling to open up communication a bit. She need to learn why her spending triggers your anxiety. You also need to learn why fear shouldn’t drive your decisions. Most importantly, resentment is cancer. End it at all costs.
this is what bureaucracy and red tape looks like.

you have multiple chain of commands and grunts at the lower levels with minimal authority (or incentive) to show initiative- leading to a lot of frustration and hair pulling by the customer.
From the headline ("A Grim First For The State"), Alabama is highlighted because it's the first time this has happened in that state. Several states in that map also had births exceed deaths in 2019.
I've seen something like this used in Vic, Australia. Apparently goats love Blackberries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9yiclBCxMo&t=577s
I get you: It would take another 20+ years to test any new hypothesis. So, publishing yours, even if you think you're right, doesn't feel too urgent, and wouldn't advance your career anytime soon. The Nobel would come at best 40 years later, and then only if you were right and they were generous.

So to fire anybody up, we need to be able to test hypotheses in a lot less than 20 years.
Any tech can be abused, but the tech itself is generic for both good and bad usage.
Even though we talk about "the" vaccine, there isn't only one; there are half a dozen different vaccines being administered world-wide, using different methods of production. We're talking about all these independently-developed vaccines failing catastrophically in a way no other vaccine has ever failed before -- reactions after two weeks are incredibly rare. We're thousands of times more likely to be wiped out by a meteor.
That's incredible. Many people say we need free or heavily subsidized healthcare. I disagree, we need to remove legislation from healthcare entirely and let the free market figure things out.
Good for you that you like clickbait headlines.
The last time I checked, there was only one manufacturer with patents on e-ink tech, all the models on the market use the same screens.
Even e-ink is more like a brand, not a technology name
Remind me how "you need to google something" became a synonym to "you need to search something."

And from the discussion you posted, I was probably right about the market state at the moment.
Damn, what a shame, another monopolized market without real competition.
The "Bypass paywalls" plugin and Ublock origin, works fine for now.
Wasn't sure if the earth moved or my stomach grumbled
> We haven't reached any kind of semblance that Autopilot or similar systems are capable of that.

Oh, I was not suggesting that AP would more intelligent overall than humans, rather the vision stack might (or might not) be more sensitive to such pedestrian/background contrast at night than human eyes, simply due to the sensory differences.
But how much do those type of performance benefits matter to JS tools like a linter?

The only positive they’re getting out of a native compiler language is unnoticeable performance boosts.
Yes. But I am a n00b and the obvious way was CRA.

In contrast, when I tried sveltejs, the 'official' way using degit worked sewmlessly, standard dependencies were also much smaller than when I used react.

But I will give a try to Vite, thanks for recommendation!
This is fine if the person saying it is the only one involved. Unfortunately, there are many in that community - for example children not yet of age - who have absolutely no say in the matter. Thus it's incumbent on people like us to at least try to help them. QED.
> "Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: 'It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk'"

So they pitch this project to both DARPA and NIH... and DARPA says no citing community risk.
What you want is the manhattan model: a huge park surrounded by extremely high density residential towers. You'd have near-immediate access to needed free outdoor fields.

The manhattan model is so strikingly effective that the rich have basically monopolized it. What needs to happen in many urban areas is to replicate this. Of course that would mean huge numbers of buybacks of individually owned blocks of city, an almost impossibility in US legal system practically speaking, even with eminent domain.
Alternatively, Alex Jones could be right, and they're sophisticated tools to sterilize the vast majority of people.

This is obviously ridiculous, but it's why you should always have a control group.
That's the goal of autonomous vehicles. Not autopilot. Surprisingly, not "full self driving" either. In both of those you have to be fully alert because the car can do something very dumb any moment.

FSD and autopilot on highways are still bad enough that sober people are mostly going to be paying attention. I think this approach is doomed though, there is going to be a dangerous time where it's too good to pay sustained attention but not good enough that you don't have to pay attention. the way Cruise and Waymo are doing it seems much much safer.
Antidote Developed for Nerve Agent Poisoning – SciTechDaily
>“If the public health professionals, if Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it. Absolutely,” Harris said during the live debate in Salt Lake City, when she was asked if Americans should take a vaccine, if the Trump administration were to approve one either before or after the election. “But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it. I’m not taking it.”

That seems like a perfectly reasonable stance. If Biden was promoting some other medical treatment against the advice of the FDA, I'd be skeptical of that too.

https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-says-she-wont-take-covi...
Eh, do you think I could make some statement of yours sound weird if I were to substitute "ebola" for some other word you used? Is this useful?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

These unforced errors are the exact reason people don’t trust the government and won’t get vaccinated. We’re doing this to ourselves.

P.S. - please get vaccinated. I am. My wife and I both got COVID and while she (unvaccinated) got dangerously close to going to the hospital, I recovered almost fully in 36 hours. It works - even if you get sick it works.
Also comes from a company that does its best to make products irreparable, irrespective of the environmental damage it causes, to pad their bottom line.

If we don't vote with our wallet, for the right thing, we deserve the worse future that we are going to get.
>> I can never condone terrorism but can understand the powerlessness and pain behind it, the lack of agency, and the need to matter and have a voice that drive some of its acts.

>> So stopping terrorism has to do with addressing oppression etc.

This sounds so much like my former teacher and mentor - who was also an erstwhile member of the weathermen in the 60s. I do think that addressing oppression is half of the problem. But if you consider the problem to be humans killing other humans while taking their own lives in service of a belief ("right" or not), then it really can't be addressed without also giving individual humans the sense that their own individuality is wonderful and unique and worth preserving, even in the face of oppression or injustice. It goes deeper than whether the belief is wrong or right. It requires a form of self-respect and respect for life that can't come from a group identity. That overrides group identity and comes to its own conclusions. That is the basis of morality - the decision to refuse a wrongful order. It requires an internal moral compass and a desire for self-preservation and a sense of one's own life being valuable. And that's something that no organization or ideology will ever try to inculcate in its disciples, and which can't be achieved by e.g. America addressing oppression.