skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here’s the problem with tobacco. It becomes a public expense when the community has to pay the health bill.

Depending on how you measure it, New Zealand may well be taking in more tax than the use of tobacco is costing.

It all gets quite murky quite fast (eg how much tax would the dead person have paid if they had lived longer?).

Don’t get me wrong though, I’m somehow supportive of more restrictions on tobacco and alcohol while keen on more liberal drug policies. It would seem that I need to think this all through.

https://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releas...
You might enjoy this video which goes into that question:

https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10
Hard to judge but I would recommend to think nothing of it. Perhaps that is just their common demeanor. I would assume that he just tried to be polite and tried to smile. Some people do not look too sympathetic while doing so.

Never was asked such a question, but often these are meant to test your honesty. If that was the case you probably passed since you put it into perspective.
I get all the hesitancy in the comments here about the freedom of an adult to have a cigarette. However, smoking is a case where; if you're having a smoke at the same bus stop as me, I am inhaling that crap too.
I've actually implemented a few algorithms and containers in C, I agree with your advice on that front!

Were you referring to [Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach](https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Sedgewic...)?
It would be nice if there were better filtering options when searching the stores.

Open source would be nice, but some validation would be nice and not sure that is easy.
Each discussion I have, my arguments grow stronger. I see what works and doesn't work, and prepare for the same discussion to happen say... 2 or 3 months from now. Everyone else forgets about the discussion, and I hold onto my strengthened arguments to hit them again.

It takes a few years, but over the long term, my arguments evolve into a stronger form, and people start to listen.

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I've learned that while the Internet's memory is long, people's individual memories are short. You have plenty of opportunities to improve your arguments over time.

Its no different from what Elon is doing here: leveraging the shortness of the typical person's memory to make his marketing tricks work.
There's certainly an argument for it but I disagree that loss of liberties is prerequisite to socialized healthcare.
Not really. I'm often the only one that has a problem with a product feature or process, and my speaking up just results in more work (remaking my case multiple times) and no additional work for anyone else. It's better to clam up and let them discover the problems themselves.

Not that I am always right. Maybe they're not real problems? In that case being silent is still a clear win.
It is completely backwards. Letting government think that it's an institution that grants rights and tells how to live instead of helping people sort out conflicts while letting everyone decide how to live their lives is a sure way to destroy society. Because power-hungry sociopaths would be the first to play such game.

Good parents don't parent via restrictions, but by offering kids something better to do with their time. Restrictions are powerful if they are super-clear and super-limited ("do not kill", "do not steal"). Just making a pile of good-to-have "don'ts" diminishes the effect and risks brewing revolt.

If you manage society and worry that people smoke too much or drink too much, or don't do enough sports, or eat junk food, figure out a way to make a better alternative more available and more satisfying. Be a good parent who guides to a better way, not an annoying parent who simply barks "no" left and right.
That's an inapt slippery slope analogy. The supposed bastion of freedom, the US, still has states where books are banned. And abortion is functionally banned.

Not all freedoms are the same. Losing one doesn't equate with losing all of them. Equating the freedom to become addicted (or indebted perpetually) is not the same as the freedom to read or travel, etc.
Data Modeling Patterns for Cloud Firestore
It depends on your use case. The author first goes on talking generally about the rest of the drive being unusable, and only then mentions persistence. But Ventoy supports both, so either way the point is moot.
Unless you can eat those assets, build cars, computers or houses, all you have is just an alt economy that's indistinguishable from the dollar, except it has a different name.
That was not always true. In the early days tech. companies always considered Engineering as their Core and other depts. (eg. Marketing, Sales etc.) as Ancillary. It was only quite recently that the roles have been reversed (all in the name of "maximizing short term profits and shareholder value" BS) to the detriment of the entire Industry.

The best example i have on hand is the "Speech given by Dave Packard to HP Managers" - https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-... (they founded Silicon Valley).
I don't think you can prove that (forgive me if I don't sit through a 2h video). Those all are susceptible to the deadly triad, and AFAIK there are no convergence proofs of any kind for the big model-free DL algs, and it would've been big news if someone had proved that a real-world version of PPO/DQN/IMPALA does in fact converge in the limit. Sutton's book and earlier proofs only cover cases where you drop the nonlinear approximator or something.

(History stacking may turn POMDPs into MDPs, but I don't know if they handle the specially adversarial nature of games like poker. That's quite different from stacking ALE frames.)
Guessing allergen content sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Only today, that isn’t a statement they will still sell you a Model 3 for that nominal price in 4 or 40 years. Rather it’s a statement they will sell you for that price right now.

He said they would sell at 35k and they did, briefly.
The live reloading side panel for web development in Brackets was ahead of its time.
Or modular learning? I'm trying to advance the idea that there's a better word that better defines a decentralized approach to education which is not school at home, but school out in the world, drawing on the best resources available for each child's individual education https://manisharoses.medium.com/not-school-or-homeschooling-...
it is so awful that there are real reasons not to pass the material around in public.. plenty of people here in the USA protested this extensively .. Your good-looking world leader and mine, Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, was the executive in charge here
My chief problem with learning from videos is... videos progress at a linear rate, but I don't absorb concepts at a linear rate. And even when delivery_rate/absorption_rate is a constant, it's rarely 1. I often have to stop, reverse, flip pages back and forth to compare precedents with consequents -- none of which is feasible with video.

With books I can also stop and take notes or reflect on what I've learned. That's harder with video.

And of course fewer words are spoken on video than are written in a book with fewer concepts and fewer illustrations, and with more verbal miscues -- errors or omissions.

I also rely heavily on the index of a book to look up related topics and terms, as used by the author.

In subjects that are precise (like math or algorithms) I've found learning from books to be far superior to video.

That said, some videos are great, especially those that animate or visualize, like 3Blue1Brown and Khan Academy.
Looks like that was only within the Amazon Game Studios org. I've never heard of any policy like that within AWS or the retail side of things.
Not a narcotic in any sense of the word.
Hardware on the Switch seems standard:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#Hardware

I wonder if his comments mean their Switch OS is emulating antiquated calls that have lineage to the original NES hardware.
But in many industrial control systems, there is inherent adaptation required to deal with exogenous shocks or noise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_control_system

see also the last few chapters here; http://lavalle.pl/planning/book.html

i would say relative to classical control, fast gpus have replaced the need to have certain closed form solutions that are easily analyzable.
Surely kids below the age threshold will love to break the rules and try it out.

There is one upside though, which is that enforcement becomes progressively easier. At some point every young person that smokes is breaking the law.

I think they could just make the product worse (e.g. banning filters; adding supplements to make it more bitter) and then individuals will naturally opt to avoid smoking.
Rishi Bommasani on Foundation Models
> Im really not sure what you are getting at?

To be quite clear, in the context of ImageMagick, claiming early Linux image processing with ImageMagick is irrelevant, also, not exactly true. What much does alleged Linux inclusion of any application (/usr/local/*) whatsoever have to do with that application? You're apparently promoting Linux by claiming it's a feat few had considered, or otherwise saying "I am cool," which is fine I guess and I don't doubt it, but also irrelevant.

As I pointed out, ImageMagick was developed in 1987, and I should have gone on to specify that most digital image manipulation techniques were developed in the 1960's. So assuming your Yggdrasil installation was processing images with it in early 1993, that it was "before most had considered it" is hardly knowable. I'm reading it similarly to saying your Chevy wipers were wiping your windshield before most had considered it when modern wipers were invented 50 years ago and all the techniques for doing so were worked out around the turn of the century. Chevy's are great and all, but there are other things.
Not as an FOI officer. Who decides who is nutty?

Some well documented stories:

https://www.propublica.org/article/delayed-denied-dismissed-...
The first sentence in the article compares 2021 to 2020 and reflects a 4% increase in jailed journalists. This is 4x larger than the typical 1% population growth.

Sure, more numbers would help. I'm not sure what sort of mindset would make someone immediately jump to defending the jailing of journalists though.

> The article's framing of the problem (increased authoritarianism, decreased tolerance for reporting) leaves a lot to be desired without more evidence.

I think democratic backslide / the rise of authoritarianism globally is broadly recognized at this point. It's not my area of expertise though.
I found them extremely accessible, and I was a high-school dropout. (Admittedly a very late dropout, but a dropout nonetheless.) That was back when volume 4 didn't even exist as listicles yet. And, let's face it, the sheer size (and cost) of the thing, even then, was a bit intimidating, but there's nothing in it that can't be followed with a bit of algebra and the barest hint of what the kids these days call "pre-calculus". While it may be a bit of a slog to listen to Knuth, his writing is about as clear as it ever gets, things are laid out in a clear progression, and nothing jumps out at you suddenly without a clear buildup and foundation.
It can make everything safer for everyone, both cars and pedestrians. If all cars redundantly detect everything around them, including approaching other vehicles _and_ pedestrians, and relay that data to other nearby vehicles, why would it be a nightmare for pedestrians?
The metrics form the basis of a successful strategy for your SaaS business. Check these 16 customer success metrics to measure whether your team efforts are working or not: https://bit.ly/2ZiKTdt
Go look for 'lung cancer' statistics post ~2007. It's going to be quite difficult to find this data and when you do... Why are lung cancer rates WAY WAY up?

Tobacco smoking is way down in part due to 'education' and tremendous taxes. The reason they dont really show the post 2007 data is that it's really bad. It destroys the correlation that tobacco is even involved in lung cancer. In fact, it now looks like tobacco's toxicity might have been kind of a chemotherapy poison holding back lung cancer.

Worse yet, all the 'education' means nobody at all is looking into it. Everyone just blames tobacco still. I'm not saying go buy a pack of cigarettes, but creating a black market like NZ is about to do is the wrong choice.
I agree. But if you are smoking next to me, now I am too.
I think people are too used to huge projects. this one is 125 lines of C, in that space, you can express yourself shortly.
I went down this rabbit hole as it is easy to get sucked in, the thing is I am not a super smart political science expert yet somehow I managed to find these stories that were supposedly being quashed by an evil cabal of leftist tech corps and socialist media.

The truth is the majority of people don't care and are succeeding in life while conspiracy theorists draw more and more victims into their bent views of the world and desperately desire them to obsess over these same issues to justify their wasted lives. This hurts generally good people with impressionable minds by implying that the rest of the world is crazy.

Unless You are directly involved in politics and or media, I feel You are far better off to focus on your own issues before You get left behind. You risk ending up watching all the "sheep" build successful lives while You end up blaming the world for all your problems in life and eventually become one of the conspiracists drawing more people in to a vicious self fulfilling cycle(Very similar to a drug addicts self destructive spiral).

Good luck
Ask HN: How do you praise an open source project?
After using a particular feature of an open source project today I found myself wanting to offer some public praise to the project maintainers saying how useful that feature is.

The only option I could think of to do that was to open an issue in their issue queue which seems a little off, so how do people here offer praise?
Very helpful, thanks for sharing! I'm installing it now.
Why should that be teslas problem? It's up to the driver to follow the rules of the road. Unless the games themselves encourage dangerous driving, this is nothing more then a potential distraction. It's the manufacters job to make sure their cars don't get in the way of safe driving, it's entirely the drivers responsibility not to distract himself. The regulator must trust the driver to be responsible.
Ye probably they want to manipulate the "feed" like Facebook. Google Play have no way to filter on permissions, ads or price ... has to be on purposely, as it is so user hostile.
My problem is that I spend too much time on HN. :)
> It would be cool to decide on a framework where FSD is tested/approved to be not perfect but better than the average human

Even if this was true, there is still the problem that the failure mode of a ML is even less predictable than that of a average human. I.e. only the most intoxicated humans are likely to drive their cars into white walls, but that may happen any day with computer vision on the most well-maintained car, and you may never know what confused it. Or a traffic sign can be defaced in a way that is obviously detectable for a human (up to the point maintenance does not even consider to clean it), but confuses a car in a deadly way.

I.e. even if humans fail, at least they fail in ways that are relatable to us humans. The ways "FSD" fail are incomprehensible and exasperating.
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth.
Because of a bug in Android? Great suggestion.
Website only lists a subset of prices and they go back and forth on this over time.

It wasn’t until February 2019 that the $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range became available. Less than two months later, Tesla announced that the Standard Range model would no longer be available for order on its website, though buyers could still order it “off-menu,” either in a Tesla store or over the phone.

https://www.carfax.com/blog/cheapest-tesla

Which is kind of messed up IMO, but that’s different from saying it’s never sold.
What if mathematical theorems are described by executable code instead of just symbols then ? Currently it seems impossible for reader to verify all theorems in a math paper.
> We are all on the same team after all.

We're really, really not. Read up on the history of policing (in particular, in the UK and the US), come back to me, and then try to say that with a straight face.

A good source (ignore the inflammatory title and focus on the quality of references) is "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" by Kristian Williams.
>If you have sufficient saving in society , then you hardly need to tax at all - as Japan demonstrates.

... do you think Japan has particularly low taxes or something? Because they don't, according to this:

https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/setting_up/section3/page7....
They die earlier, but I'm no sure if this outweighs the substantial treatments many need before they die.
They could have just banned it in public or put it under offensive behaviour. This will only drive tobacco underground. People already buy contraband tobacco products and drugs.
I completely agree that the problems originate in the broader culture within which these organizations exist. However, I would use a different emphasis: I would like individuals to be more supportive of other individuals, and to be more skeptical of concentration of power in both private and public organizations.

In this context, that means treating whistleblowers, specifically, better.
Unlike most drugs, people don't tend to consume cigarettes medically or "recreationally" (i.e. for their experiential effects.) Instead, cigarette use is caused initially by 1. a viral meme of "coolness" driven by corporations, followed by 2. addiction. There's no upside for an individual in consuming their first cigarette. The only upside is to the corporations making the cigarettes. (And doubly bad, from a government's perspective, these manufacturers are probably international conglomerates, where all the money they make from the inelastic demand of addicted locals, gets funnelled out of the country.)

> What makes the government the best entity to decide what’s good for one’s self?

Why do entities the FDA exist, you mean?

Imagine if instead of cigarettes, a cartel of corporations decided to try to make a chewing gum containing a tiny amount of cyanide "cool."

You'd want someone to stop them, right? Mostly everyone would.

But no individual has the power to stop a cartel of corporations. You'd need the collective use-of-force of an entire country to stop them.

And no individual's whims should dictate the use of that collective force in these cases. You can't trust your neighbour to know what cyanide even is. You'd want some kind of ...objective standard, or maybe a consensus of scientific experts. Perhaps a requirement for scientific studies showing safety and efficacy.
yes, 81. i'd say 2-3 years before the average age of someone's death constitutes "old age", surprised to see this has spawned such a debate.
I'm in my late 20's and practically grew up with YouTube. I can't stand watching tutorial videos for anything technical. The content is not searchable and not even close to as fast as text.
"Worth noting that this "dollar short squeeze" is the exact opposite of the most common conspiracy theory about the dollar:"

No, it's not an "exact opposite". If one accepts the premise that players in the economy do not always yell out all their motivations and fears on the most public channels they can find, which when examined directly seems obvious but people seem to forget about it a few seconds later and resume acting as if the news is in fact full of everyone's private motivations and fears, then one can easily harmonize these two theories into one by wondering if the reason the Fed is printing money like crazy is that they fear horrifying deflation brought on by a dollar squeeze, so they're trying to get ahead of it. Certainly once it starts happening it's too late to react.

It's not my personal first guess as to the Fed's primary motivation, but neither is it an idea too crazy to take seriously, and I could easily accept it as a secondary motivation.
Civil rights under the Constitution are largely about protecting freedom from government action. The US does not have laws that prohibit liberties disparately among adults. The NZ law would be a non-starter in the US.
1. Smartphones allow video games while driving.

2. Isn't the intention to allow passengers to use the screen?

3. Idiots who don't pay attention to the road already don't pay attention to the road. They are text messaging, checking notifications, putting on makeup, playing candy crush on their phone, watching netflix on their phone, scrolling twitter, reading email, looking for podcasts and on and on.
> Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store's listing - not the title.

Well yeah, the theory is easy. I'd say "Yes" to what you say, IFF the metadata is usable as a search filter. Otherwise, it's of no use, thus not a better solution in practice.
You can post here, Reddit, Discord, or other social media you find useful.
Additionally, if you like what they do, star them on GitHub.
because it's (arguably) incompatible with socialised healthcare. a counter-question might be: why should non smokers pay for smokers healthcare? no, the tax doesn't usually cover it.
In distillation, the whole input liquid is evaporated by heating, then condensed by cooling and collected.
Ahh, interesting. I’ll have to listen to that again.
I've seen that definition of Ponzi schemes a lot and it doesn't really explain how they work - you could say the same about, say, most of the stock market where the only way to exit your position is through funds from new investors. The defining feature of Ponzi schemes is that they pay out interest using the funds of new investors. It's important to understand this carefully because it's the reason Ponzis have to fail - the actual paper amount investors have in their acounts and can withdraw is backed by a pool of money that's slowly eaten away by the fraudulent interest payments, until one day the scheme can't meet withdrawals and the whole thing implodes. Ordinary cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum don't have this underlying mechanism and so it doesn't make sense to call them a Ponzi scheme. That doesn't mean that they're a good investment, but they don't work anything like a Ponzi. This lending scheme, on the other hand, has most of the usual Ponzi warning signs.
Apropos long-form read about TEL:

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth
Experienced devs can make much more than that. Does that surprise you?
It's also completely facile. There's already crypto banks, facades after facades hindering true valuations.

They're basically proving that the real problem people have with fiat currency is that it doesn't make them naturally rich via inheritance.
It's certainly unfair that the older generation end up with worse health because they aren't protected by this law, it's true.
>But what's up with Jacinda? Is she afraid of Maori adults, why not just ban tobacco entirely?

Kind of side line question. Jacinda got a huge result in the election. Their majority and nearly majority popular vote effectively authorizes them do whatever they please.

So why not go all the way on all their efforts?
I’ve always found mean life expectancy an odd metric. Median life expectancy seems more useful to answer “how long am I expected to live?” and appears to be 3-4 years higher in the US.
Learn Haskell. Most of Haskell concepts have root in CS and mathematics.
ChainLink is an Oracle that provides real-world data to the blockchain. They're used by smart contracts like AAVE and Compound, things a hn reader might describe as "ponzi lending stuff".