skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"smoking indoors is illegal because smoking is less 'socially acceptable'"

>No - this is false.

>It's illegal because it's harmful to others - and - it's generally a nuisance i.e. it really smells quite a lot.

And it was less harmful or a nuisance before it became illegal? And it smelled less too? Please.

Smoking indoors was banned because of the effort to make it less socially acceptable.

If it were otherwise, those bans would have been in place 40 years ago. We knew it was harmful in the 1960s (actually, even before that, but various societies didn't start trying to make it less socially acceptable until the 1970s).

It wasn't until the 1990s/2000s when such bans went into effect. Why? Because smoking had become less socially acceptable -- through conscious efforts[0][1] over decades to make it so.

>Chewing tobacco is completely legal 'indoors' and it has many of the same negative effects. It's not even up for consideration in terms of banning. You can chew it on the Subway, at the Office.

So what? I was (and explicitly said so) talking about smoking, not chew.

You are apparently ignorant of history. Which makes it hard to have a conversation that, for obvious reasons, needs to take that history into account. So let's not.

[0] https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/tobacco-indus...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_nicotine_marketi...
3-axis mills are the most common configuration for commercial mills (probably by a wide margin).
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> Imagine as a programmer you have a bunch of specialized skills, have worked at a bunch of FAANGs and the interviewer is just like, "Oh you can program when you can you start and BTW here's $X". The number is probably too low and you'd be pissed at your time being wasted.

That's not really the same.

What you described is a Michelin Starred chef applying at McDonalds...
That's interesting they don't seem to be running a functioning main web page, but their docs do work. https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/stable/
Life is not binary, just because the president isn’t an absolute monarch doesn’t make him powerless

The USA system was designed to balance powers between the three branches of government.

Turns out there is a fourth branch: Bureaucracy
Because paper record absolutely sucks to retrieve/interpret later, and billing/coding would be even more arduous from paper than it already is with EMRs.
I agree. youtube-dl was another example of them turning a vulnerable moment into a win: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1328365679473426432
Classic prisoners dilemma. The lanes are blocked because the people up ahead are thinking the same thing.
I feel you. Father of 3 here. My two year old always just runs as far as fast as he can pretty much whenever he gets a chance. Won't stay in the stroller either. Putting him in a carseat is much easier. Just went on a flight the other day with the kids and chasing him around the airport wasn't easy, although in the end it was somewhat manageable.

Car travel with kids is way easier compared to other methods.

We took the kids to Paris a while back and carting the stroller up and down the stairs to the metro was a huge pain.
My expectations may be colored by having a pretty good default implementation of a shared mutex in our codebase :) (folly::SharedMutex)

I've had to resort to seqlocks + async reclamation (either RCU or hazard pointers, depending on the case) only in a handful of very very specific cases.
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Genes to turn off development of the nipples would cost more. The same body plan is used until sex hormones cause sex characteristics to develop.

Many females also find male nipples attractive.
Both solar and wind are simultaneously underperforming in Europe at the moment because of weather phenomena that reduce wind and increase cloud cover, plus of course winter. There is no solution outside of nuclear, coal, and nat gas. And Europe, save for France, doesn't have enough nuclear to go around.
Not that it's HN's fault

In a way, it is.

A lot of people joined HN searching for a higher level of discussion and thought. And HN is powered by submissions from its users.

What would be nice is if we could get more high-quality submissions to drown out the bots and other low-grade content.

Perhaps if users could filter out submissions by domain. For example, I don't mind seeing nytimes.com submissions, but I don't want to see anything from youtube.com.

But then we're just back to building yet another social media echo chamber. Yuck. Life is hard.
Survival rate is not the only measure. COVID survivors exhibit numerous lingering problems including myocarditis. The aim of the vaccine is more than just keeping people from dying.
I wouldn't be surprised if self driving cars just never go on most roads and only stay on a handful of well mapped and easy to interpret routes. Like how trucks follow certain routes through cities too.
It's theatre, so it won't help actual security. Having said that, even quite small firms I've known have decided they needed it in order to get customers.

A fair few large customers require it and won't bother talking to you if you don't have it, so if you can otherwise do the sale there's a good reason to get it.

Your real problem as a small vendor is deciding when this is necessary, because you might be getting customers just fine when you're small and dealing with people who care about actual security, not paper security. At some point you are gonna have to pull a few people out to get all this paperwork done. I spent last summer doing a whole pile of "Information Security" policies for a friend I was helping. Luckily there are consultants who can get you most of the way there.
GitHub’s acquisition cost was close to $24B (dividend and stock value today). Gitlab being far smaller are closing in on $20B valuation. Even if Microsoft is worth $2.5T, GitHub being worth $50B-75B still means a lot. Especially for the synergies they gain with Azure and the good publicity they get from being current stewards of GitHub.
AFAIK Netlify uses Apache Traffic Server for their 'CDN'

(Vercel uses nginx)
Tangential, but from the cutter website:

> No Java involved.

What an odd thing to advertise as a feature.
>I don't know what you mean about an "informal spec", the the full formal specification of Python (the language)

I think GP meant "informal" in the sense that python wasn't originally meant to be a multi-implementation language. Though the oldest alternative implementation goes back to 1997, alternatives were always, until relativel recently, second class. I don't have the tools or the time to quantify what I mean by "recently" or "second class", but I hope you know what I mean.

The single biggest marker of being "second class" that I do know of is how the new features always gets introduced first by Cpython, then every other implementation plays catch up. This is unheard of in true multi-implementation languages, what I have in mind is C, C++, Java and Javascript. I'm sure there are plenty more, but those just, off the top of my head, are the most prominent languages whose features are introduced first in completely implementation-agnostic way, then all implementations start racing to get it complete.

I don't mean to say that Cpython maintainers just wake up in the morning and decide to add new syntax or semantics to the language, PEP documents are quite formal and implementation-agnostic, but I always had the impression it's something by Cpython devs for Cpython devs, and supporting that is how a Cpython implementation always appear first and other implementations lag behind by a varying amounts.
This.

For a while, I had a 9:30 meeting. It existed as a direct result of people hating the previous 9am meeting - no big deal, a few team members complained, I moved it, and everybody was happy.
Trade protection?
Can you please copy a quote from that article that states "Github(company org chart) now reports to Microsoft Visual Studio"? This is not a snark, I genuinely trying to figure out what I am missing.

I glanced through the article - it mostly deals with dotnet watch fuckup. This article is 2 weeks old, nothing was known about Nat's decision to leave at that time.

Edited for clarity.
That is what I do the overwhelming majority of the time. But some things work better with the pointing and the clicking. After that I would like my fingers back on the home row, and with a TrackPoint they already are.
This is not true. 5 axis mills and 9+ DOF CNC mill/turn centers exist, and they are becoming more common, however 3 axis vertical mills are still the backbone of most machine shops.
Why "cd ~ && mkdir -p nat/next" instead of just "mkdir -p ~/nat/next"?
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Whenever I hear about the end of the cold war, I think the Polish contribution to the fall of the USSR is mostly unknown, under appreciated and under valued.

Also obviously with the end of the cold war, what most of this articles miss, the US lost Europe. Before e.g. Germanys establishment pushed US nuclear weapons ("Jump!" "How high?") into Germany against a large part of it's polutation, after 1990 no country in Europe jumps anymore when the US says "Jump!", because the Soviet scare is gone.
>Yes, you're missing the fact that we already do heavy suppression of Meth/Heroin i.e. teaching kids how terrible it is, featuring it in films as extremely negative, positioning it as 'totally socially taboo and unacceptable behaviour'.

>Selling it in stores legally is both an increase in availability, and a significant reduction in social taboo.

Who, exactly are you responding to here? Because it isn't me.

I never even implied that such drugs should be fully legalized/commercialized.

Go and build, then knock down your straw man somewhere else. I'm not interested.
For a framer, 1/8” is precise enough. For a finish carpenter, 1/32” is precise enough. For a 3D printer, 0.004” is precise enough. For a machinist, 0.0005” is precise enough.
>Sometimes you roll up to an intersection, and every time the light turns green, the direction you're trying to go already has all lanes filled by another approaching direction. Every time.

The only time I can imagine this happening is when trying to turn left, at which point the solution is to go past the turn, double back, and approach the intersection so you can make the turn from the right.
Well, I think the point is that in rigid body dynamics, the configuration and phase spaces naturally form a manifold and then the equations of motion are in terms of differential forms on the cotangent bundle of the these manifolds. This is commonly expressed in terms of the language of exterior algebras, hodge duals, etc. That's what is driving all of this, and is usually covered in a good class on mathematical physics. Again, there is nothing new here except marketing, but marketing plays an important and useful role.

I remember for a long time, people coming from the math end of things would look down a bit on physicists laboriously working everything out in complex tensor notation when there are these elegant canonical descriptions arising from differential geometry that look very simple and beautiful and are completely coordinate-invariant.

But then when you want to actually calculate something, you end up doing all the painful tensor contractions anyway, so the physicists would likewise often lookdown on the mathematicians for writing these simple one liners that described all of mechanics but not really understanding how to calculate stuff.

So if repackaging some of the basic facts of differential geometry as "Geometric Algebra" gets physicists to be excited about it, then that's a good thing. Just like repackaging some of the laborious tensor calculus computations into differential geometry has gotten a lot of mathematicians excited about physics. It really is much more pleasant to work in a coordinate-free manner using differential structures associated to the natural manifold suggested by the problem, rather than being stuck in euclidean space and needing to deal with lots of fictional forces and complex change of basis formulas.

For example, look at this text:
https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/bitstream/11303/2482/1/Doku...
Don’t know if it’s available on Android, but on iOS Authenticator by Matt Rubin is a tiny app that properly backs up your codes if you use (as documented) iOS’ encrypted backups.

Where Google Authenticator just doesn’t backup half your codes, leaving you in for a surprise if you lose your phone.
So honest question, when I'm stuck behind one of these fucking things refusing to take a turn correctly, because it means crossing the white line, what do I do?

With a human driver, I can blare the horn, or, god forbid, get out of the car to talk to them.

But with a driverless car, what do I do? Honk at an empty vehicle that literally has no ears?
> This entirely defeats the purpose of shelf-stable media; if I can't buy newly manufactured drives for old tape formats then who cares if the tapes themselves can sit in a box for 20 years?

Why can't you buy new drives for old tape formats? What new features are these new formats providing?
That's because so much of the US is built around suburban sprawl and is incredibly hostile to anyone not in a car.

I'd recommend the youtube channel "Not Just Bikes", a guy who moved from Canada to the Netherlands. It's perfectly normal over there to do everything you said is unrealistic.

Imagine not having to chaperone your kids around until they're old enough to drive. In much of the US, this is unthinkable, and it takes a large mental toll on parents, but in the Netherlands, it's not uncommon for elementary schoolers to bike to and from school, friends houses, even riding public transit on their own.

In much of the US, your kids can be taken by social services for this, even if it was perfectly safe for them to do so. And even if it's legal to let your kids be fairly independent, it doesn't matter when you have to fight to get them back (very much "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride").

It's depressing just how far we've fallen under the guise of "protect the children".
Excel is incredibly powerful. Watch an accountant or financial expert in a mid to large company use it. They'll use functions you've never heard of...and don't require writing Python.

Or watch this video and level-up your Excel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNuC6ayrNKQ

Note: Joel Spolsky (co-founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, FogBugz, more) was a program manager for Excel in 90's.
Drivers in Boston are definitely more aggressive than those in NYC but the built environment in NYC is 5x more intense / insane.
dude (m/f), i guess EVERYONE would respect you being late if they knew you had a condition..
Yes, I've had to explain the bit about Volcker to a few people over the years. People older than me that should know better.

Another fascinating chapter from that era, if you're interested in the revolution in Iran and resulting US election, is covered in the book "October Surprise," by Gary Sick. While the author states soberly that we don't have all the details, those we do point in an unfortunate direction. That many in the Reagan admin would be behind bars and implicated with the Iran arms scandal less than a decade later has also largely been forgotten. The two events are thought to be unconnected.

At the time Reagan often said he "didn't recall…" Back then I thought he was omitting the truth, but then we found he had Alzheimer's a few years later, and turned out it was probably true he didn't remember a thing. Can't make this stuff up, folks.

There was also a good Frontline episode on the subject, but I've not been able to find it due to PBS' shenanigans. Maybe they lost the tape.
Envisioning a "keep summer safe" approach…
Instagram is likely the greatest acquisition of all time in terms of synergy and mainly financial gains.

Instagram is worth hundreds of billions now. Bought for $1B. It is an actual unicorn situation of being incredibly rare.

There’s no point bringing up something so rare.

For example, the only other [tech?] acquisition that I can think of even sniffing IG is Priceline (now Bookings Holdings) acquiring Bookings.com for a couple hundred million. Now being the core of the business.

—

Beyond that. Just to be geeky about this stuff. The only other general financial deals in this ballpark are SoftBank, Yahoo, and Naspers investments. Copy pasting previous comment:

SoftBank and Yahoo bought around 40% stakes each in Alibaba. SoftBank spent $20M in 1999, the year Alibaba was founded. Alibaba owned 34% as of the mid 2010s. Now own 26%. Yahoo, because of Jerry Yang, invested $1B in 2005.

Naspers invested $32M for almost 50% of Tencent in 2001. Probably the best investment ever. Naspers split into two companies. Prosus owns the remaining close to 30% stake now. Though Naspers and Prosus both own around one half of one another.

All three investing companies have had issues with their own valuations. They’ve all had their own market caps be undervalued. Their one investment alone usually was close to or even exceeded the entire market cap of the company. Still the case for SoftBank and Prosus.
Yeah, the manual way is certainly the long way around, though there are (or used to be, anyway) addons for Firefox to directly send Youtube and friends to mpv. Another snag is that you can't directly switch between video qualities, though you can put --ytdl-format into the config with the appropriate formats for your screen size.
If I am guessing correctly, this is hitting the StackOverflow API and grabbing just the code bits of the answers? The SO upvotes seem to match the star count.

Ex:

1. https://justshowmethecode.com/code-example/ruby-on-rails/1k9...

2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2369744/rails-postgres-d...
The big isssue with lane merging is that you have to be assertive and risky in cities or you are just going to be trapped and no one will let you in. You have to almost dare cars to hit you in order to force yourself to have space. I can't imagine a self driving car ever doing that well. It's an entire dance.
You can interpret its MIR (mid-level intermediate representation) like Miri or const evaluation does
I wonder how much the efficiency loss from a laptop car charger would compare to just using something like a NUC -- IIRC some of their models have really wide input voltage ranges (12v-20v or something like that, depends on the model). The laptop is really just bringing a battery, compared to a NUC, for this application, and they are going panel->regulator->battery->converter anyway so the laptop battery seems redundant.
Imagine in the world, there are 105 million programmer jobs and 100 million programmers. Companies can raise wages, but theyre only poaching from other companies.
I didn't meant subsidizing rent. I meant subsidizing housing - as in, using that money to build more of it.
An alternative to not allowing cars at all is simply eliminating on street parking.

At least in NYC.

Get rid of on street parking and traffic will plummet. More importantly, a LOT of space will open up.

This is probably true of most American downtowns.
While your points are well articulated, I think our perspectives are irreconcilable. Based on your arguments, health inspections, environmental impact reports, and laws against child labor would not exist. If the government did not intervene, we would still have slave markets in this country because, as these last few years have shown, many people still see others as nothing more than stock.

Adam Smith emphasized the limiting of government intervention, not the complete removal of it. He also believed the government to be responsible for the education and defense of a country. While we can argue over what sectors are in fact 'essential', and about the government's execution, but it is reasonable to assume that preventing physical harm and death during the pandemic is a valid function of a country's government, according to the father of modern economics.

Going further, he argued in favor of 'institutions that promote free and fair competition'. So, I would contend that payments to prevent citizens from starving, and from subjugating themselves to the enrichment of others for scraps while in fear of bodily harm, are not only in line with Smith's ideals, but those payments create fairer competition.

If anything hurts the average business, it is entrenched conglomerates and chains, especially those with huge cash piles, that can easily raise wages to meet labor's demands. And that situation exists specifically because of a lack of government action to discourage the hoarding of capital.
So what if it is proprietary, there are other alternatives if you don't like to pay for tooling.

As for the rest, I really don't get the point, given the plethora of such tooling for C and C++, both as free beer and commercial for the last 25 years.
It's a good way to hide the fact that your thesis is pretty sketchy. Say you have one result that has replication issues, but don't want to appear too crackpotty or dishonest while emphasizing that brilliant result. So you do a little song and dance beforehand.
Stop the FUD please.
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I'm not seeing much mention of diet and gut biome in these comments, over the last decade they're linking satisfactorily the gut to so many different ailments in later life, including Alzheimer's and dementia. Additionally studies are linking diet/gut Flora to stuff like autism, some inflammatory diseases, etc.

If I was born 15 years later I'd probably have gone into that field of study as it probably makes the most fiscal sense - from a national medicine standpoint - to combat these disorders and diseases at the actual source.

I wonder if there's been a metastudy on the median lifespan going up and incidence of these cognitive or neurological disorders. That is, now that humans on average are living longer, perhaps our diets are more important; and with his knowledge we can get some enhancements on regulations from the FDA or something.
1. 1Password requires a secret key[1] in addition to the master password to gain access on a new device - specifically to protect against weak/reused/leaked master passwords

2. You can add 2FA (well, technically 3FA if you need the secret key, master password, AND a rotating token) to your 1Password signin as well (I auth Authy for that purpose)

[1] https://support.1password.com/secret-key/
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