skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nicotine is fairly non-addictive (in gum and patch form. Vapes, may be slightly more addictive due to oral fixation -- but still nothing compared to actual tobacco).

You are somewhat mistaken. Natural tobacco is fairly non-addicting because it doesn't contain nearly the amount of nicotine than what is in cigarettes, and what is in cigarettes is not natural tobacco. Nicotine, itself, is highly addictive, and there are myriad reference of studies to back this up. The addictiveness of nicotine is often compared to that of heroin. Vaping with nicotine is most likely just as addictive as smoking national brand cigarettes only due to the amount of nicotine present, thus natural tobacco is most likely not as addictive as vaping nicotine. Nicotine gum, due to the difference in delivery system, is likely just as addicting as chewing tobacco (which is also not natural tobacco but highly manipulated tobacco product to increase addictiveness). But nicotine, itself, beyond it's addictiveness, is not all that bad to consume, it won't kill you (below the lethal dose of 30-60mg), thus, vaping nicotine or nicotine gum is not all that bad, maybe not bad at all (but, again, addiction is bad in and of itself, not due to killing you, but due to messing with your free will, making you a slave to the addiction).
and those powerful people like to smoke ... cigars for example.
Which is a real shame. I can definitely see some value in winepak, and flatpaks could be built from Lutris install scripts, etc.

I don't have much interest in windows apps, but I wouldn't mind donating a bit of money (as opposed to free time) to the project.

Edit: https://github.com/winepak/winepak/issues/23#issuecomment-64...

> The biggest issue with winepak, which is why I haven't been working on it, is that it all revolves around me building things instead of a remote server doing it and having people contribute. I really just need to get the buildbot & sdk in a place that it can auto build an push out. Then it can do all the signing and building again and this shouldn't happen. I just need to find the time.

Maybe a few PR around automation, and/or donated CI runtime could help a whole lot?
I love reading books in their native language, especially when there is no translation available. It's like having a key to an exclusive world that others can't access. It is, however, quite a bit of work to learn a new language simply to be able to read works in that language and I'm not sure if it provides much value aside from a smug sense of being educated and multilingual.
Can't they sue the advertisers too?
> Heads up, US Customs does not have to respect to GDPR.

Customs is part of a sovereign nation. What customs can and can't do has precious little bearing on what companies can and can't do. It's basically irrelevant.

> Neither does the walmart he shops at. Neither does Amazon if he orders something online.

Sure, if both are OK with not being able to operate in the EU _and_ believe the US government will take the political heat for refusing to enforce the EUs laws.

We also don't strictly _have_ to extradite criminals to other countries. But we usually do.

International law functions nothing like domestic law, because there is no higher power to say "no, you can't do that". If the EU can get the US to punish US companies through diplomacy, force or trades, then that's how things work. If they can't, then it's not how things work.

My guess is that the US won't shield them. It's not critical for US defense, largely redundant with data available from Facebook, and we're already fighting to keep our existing tech giants abroad. Clearview is more useful as a sacrificial pawn than trying to get it crowned a queen.
Talking of OG, that Gmail account... looks rare.
Great talk, thank you! David Hu talking about how animals repel water: 1. ant rafts, water-repellent surfaces, surface tension 2. mosquitos vs water drops, 3. mammals shaking off water. Covers a lot of fascinating ground. (It's not a great quality video but he shows a lot of videos too which are mostly visible enough.) David seems to have qualifications in biology, mathematics and engineering!
Sorry, that was overly provocative and arguably unjustifiably personal. I apologize. The point is that the statistics do not back up many fears.

> And why did you pick "Assault by sharp object: 1,805" instead of "Assault by firearm: 10,801" or just "Assault: 16,765"?

The example was a 'stabbing rampage', that was specifically to try and find the number of knife attacks in the US resulting in fatality, and out of those number where someone is randomly attacking people in public.

Overall, we are still dealing with pretty small numbers whether it's 1 vs 5 or 1 vs 50 (50x improved chance of winning the lottery is still nearly negligible odds). In the case of knife attack, based on these numbers, it would be at most 1 in 5.

The ultimate point is the statistics do not back up many of these fears. For example in response to an actual knife rampage I observed a lot of chatter about getting a concealed carry permit etc.

These same statistics show that assault by firearm is way more likely than by knife, and having more guns around is more likely to have examples where they are used. Hence, the irrational fear of a knife rampage is prompting people to carry a gun, which then dramatically increases the chance of an accidental shooting in their own household, suicide, and/or assault where that person gets into a confrontation they could have walked away from but instead had road rage and shot someone else.

Household, accidental shootings are relatively common, and suicide is exceptionally common, yet all that seems like less risks for firearm possession compared to needing the firearm to actually protect yourself from a knife attack, which is at most 5 times more likely than slipping and drowning in your own bathtub.

In the case of a bathtub, it's common and does not have the same confirmation bias we get from headlines of rampages, yet it poses a fairly similar danger to you as someone going on a knife rampage.
Robotics supply helping hand to speedy order fulfilment
Hmm, it's missing Ogre[1].

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/6/ogre
I agree there are many in China that feel ready to fight. But I don’t judge all Chinese people like so. Just like I don’t judge all Americans act like their Republican politicians either. Imagine if someone called all Americans are loud, obnoxious, fat, and dumb. Something that is frequently claimed by most Europeans about Americans. This wouldn’t be fair to regular Americans, would it? What OP is doing is pre-labeling an entire country’s population. And it is wrong. If readers here can’t see how this is problematic, then I am simply disappointed how low HN has fallen over the years.
These are good points. I especially relate with the lack of extra curricular activities. I would just say that I think these effects are negligible compared to keeping kids at home with virtual learning.
Is this somehow a flow on effect of more commonly cited papers having more reproduction attempts?
I can’t see a compelling reason to spend $2000 on a phone that ships with broken audio.

$200 for a Pinephone is okay if you’re okay with the idea it will be hard to use.
The important part of the Darmok episode is that the language is just catchphrases from longer stories, not that it contains some examples of that.
Seems the evidence bar for bad news is quite low, but the bar for good news is unbelievably high. Is there a good source for variant circulation? As a layperson how can I find what percentage of cases in a given area are from omicron vs delta?
This is not Omicron. As far as I'm aware, main infections in the UK are currently from Delta.

Edit: @downvoters. How do you know hospital cases are currently Omicron? As far as i know there is a delay between new cases and hospitalized cases of multiple days. And the difference isn't shown in the article.

A hospitalized case of delta is averaged at ~ 8,5 days of hospitalization. So we have to wait at least another week.
We're actually in agreement I think. I think I just wasn't sufficiently clear what I meant by "principles". I am not in any way condoning China's national principles, nor did I mean to even suggest they were ethical. (My personal belief there is quite the antithesis.) ....but rather that they are willing to play hardball even if it harms Chinese companies over the issues they care about as a nation. Many of those principles are humanitarian disasters, but that's not the point.
The find my network is designed to ensure that apple - or any malicious actor will complete access to apple's internal networks - cannot track any device
> The US removed troops as part of the One Child Policy.

Say what?

Can you give some background (and, especially, evidence or documentation) for this? Because that sounds completely insane.
I can’t agree more with the OP about free will and stuff. The main problem of superdeternimism though is that it both explains everything and nothing. It’s like giving up.
Surimi already exists & is quite common for ground fish
More than likely Johnny Got His Gun, although The Fly or Predator could apply.
Fish sausages have been created before. They are pretty common here. I live in the Northeastern US, and big regional grocer here carries a couple different types. Most of the local sausage shops have an offering or two as well. Fish sausage is big in Asia too, they have all sorts of fish balls and even NOODLES. Both are essentially a firm fish sausage without a casing.
> Many important discoveries are found by chance. And a lot of extremely important basic research is not obviously important until some flashy result is achieved, if ever. Funding this is almost a lottery...

I do not find this persuasive. Is the argument really "we have no idea how to fund science, so we might as well use it as a social justice tool?" While many salient discoveries are found by chance, most science is done deliberately, not at random. We did not get to the moon, split the atom, or develop electric cars by chance. Even chance results are often found by very good scientists, because fortune favours the prepared mind.

I'm also unconvinced by "Forcing diversity in funding may be a way to disrupt endogamous tendencies". Frankly, from my POV, this is about as credible as "joining the Jonestown cult may be a way to cure suicidal ideation". See also https://cspicenter.org/reports/increasing-politicization-and....
I can't believe any of that is controversial. All political systems have been extremely captured and are very polarized and focused on short term thinking to make us miss the forest and focus on tiny divisive details.

I would never vote for anything but democrats in the current form, but I think they are deeply corrupt and not really working for the people. Sadly easily the best we have right now. Especially in California we could do with competition from good republicans. And from better democrats.
Are you comparing the cost of learning kubernetes to the cost of learning heroku? Or even AppEngine? Those are totally different leagues.

Also, with heroku, AppEngine, etc you have tons of documentation (official and unofficial) and resources. It is well tested and the exact same service runs thousands of businesses.

While kubernetes is like the react of the infrastructure world: you won't find two similar implementations. You need thousand tools configured around it to make it usable, and of course you might have docs about the individual pieces but you never have it for the big picture.
EU commission wanted free market. It will lower energy prices, they said. That worked quite well isn't ?
Here is a more recent link from the CDC that puts it at 75% started and 58% complete for adolescents.[1]

This isn't surprising because the CDC shows adoption going up a few percent per year. This year over year increase is more or less what you would expect given we are still in the adoption phase of this new medicine.[2] Eventually this increase will stall out with some people refusing to use it, but we aren't there yet.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035a1.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db354.htm
Rocket scientists and brain surgeons not necessarily smarter than public
China to introduce new 'patriotism', 'morality' guidelines for arts, culture
> What I mean is: there is a person on an adjacent team who truly believes he is very competent in nearly all technologies. He is able to deploy a k3s cluster no problem.

Aren't you confusing two roles, Kubernetes application developer and Kubernetes administrator? The Kubernetes application developer should focus on their application, NodeJS, Java, DotNET, whatever. Helm install (actually helm update --install) is all they should know/care when it comes to Kubernetes.

K3s deploy and local storage providers? Let those be the Kubernetes administrator's headaches.
I don't see how parallelism could work with stat() in general, since the OS has to keep the FS structures consistent and ultimately there is only one disk to read from, unless you have RAID.
> These other ‘sins’, however, have at least some benefit. ..., alcohol in moderation has benefits and gambling in moderation is entertaining for some.

The author is an idiot ... what is this "rethoric" manipulation called btw? I bet it has a Wikipedia article.
It was one way. A lot of software was also written in Pascal, but the APIs were at the same basic level of abstraction.

This is a bit before 486s AFAIK though, he's using a Mac Plus from 1986. Software-wise, System 7 came out in 1991 and was a big update.

I don't think Macs were every famous for being developer-friendly, though, but I'm curious what features Turbo C have that you're not seeing here?
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By design AirTags don't provide any information that is useable by apple
On second thoughts, maybe Chapter 1's tabulating income data wouldn't be the most exciting thing for a kid.. But, well, AWK is such a useful tool, it's never too early to learn!
Infrastructure in enterprises is usually completely uninteresting, to be fair. You need like eight different people on a call in order to stand up a VM, install a service, and configure a database connection.
Sort of. Microsoft’s goal was to funnel you into a minimally viable browser and funnel you into grownup apps.

Once they killed Netscape, they literally disbanded the IE team. They also did anti-competitive shit like buy and slow-roll Hotmail to protect the golden goose. (enterprise EAs of windows and office + oem licensing.)

They are doing the same thing today with identity and security for enterprises.

Chrome is Google’s attempt at a first party solution stack. It’s weird though as chrome is owned by different teams in Google than other user facing products.
As an SRE, I’m starting to think the misunderstanding of SRE tradecraft is probably more pronounced than the misunderstandings of Devops tradecraft. The risks definitely feel higher.

I’m six months into a new SRE role and it really feels like instead of doing any kind of engineering I’m instead just getting “overflow pipeline work from the rest of engineering that the Devops team was too busy for” and I’m already looking for the door.
Tell them what you want, tell them you have another offer, if they say no - Walk away. It really is pretty simple.
Exactly. Just call it the platform/tool team.

Realistically though, I'm 100% sure that absolutely nothing will stand in the way of the DevOps job title being denigrated.

Companies have for a very long time used title inflation to bait and switch the unwary software engineer into editing enterprise software configs, and will continue to do so for all of time..
This is incredibly detailed, which is impressive. But in the first two minutes of reading it, the conclusion is basically, neither phone is ready to use as a daily driver.
I hate when a product landing page doesn't answer the biggest question everyone is going to have. How is this different from Wine?
Otherwise Lithuanian actions would seem somewhat irrational, wouldn't they?
But will people value these knock offs the same as the one approved by the artists themselves? If I put a signed picture through a scanner would you pay for the scanned image even though you knew it was a copy? I would think it logical to assume there would at least be a big discount between the two showing there is value outside of it just being scarce, artificial or otherwise.
I'm OK with not being in career heaven, so long as I'm not in career hell.
There’s a straight up conversion tool iirc, and you can do things like include hcl as well I believe. Cdktf is just terraform at the bottom.
> if you give it a much better life than its biological parents would have been able to give it?

Because you have no right to kidnap someone else’s child. Because the human rights of the parents to raise their child and the rights of the child to be raised by their parents both determine that you shouldn’t. Because you have no authority to determine what is better for the child. Because the ends don’t justify the means. Take your pick.
I agree that they should, but that doesn't actually address my point.
You have to decide whether you want the keys to be accessible to other people (such as your bank), or just to you.

If you can accept the keys being accessible to your bank, then just print them out and put a copy in your safe deposit box, or maybe more than one box for decentralization. You do have to label it "this is my bitcoin wallet key" that your heirs can figure out what it is in the event something happens to you, but that means the bank can get to it too. My bank broke open my safe deposit box due to idiocy on their part. I didn't have anything super secret in it and I didn't notice anything missing after the break-in, but who knows whether they copied my backups and whatnot.

If it has to be accessible only to you, then 1) the location(s) are now a secret you have to remember, just like a password; 2) if something happens to you, the wallet key is now gone forever, which might not be ideal if the amount was substantial and you had someone to leave it to.

If you have a family lawyer then maybe you can give him or her a sealed envelope with the secrets in it. You'd direct them to keep the envelope in a safe place until you ask for it back, or (if you die first), to open it and follow the instructions inside at the reading of your will.

Basically you are looking for a techno solution to a human problem. The data involved is a few hundred bytes at most. It technologically suffices to print out some hex numbers (maybe with an error correction code or even as a QR code) and arrange to store the paper safely. Secret sharing across a few different pieces might or might not be worthwhile. You probably don't use secret sharing for your bank account credentials, so maybe you don't need it for your bitcoin wallet either, depending on what you are trying to protect against.

Of course there are intermediate solutions involving private conversations with your family during your lifetime, whose details you can work out for yourself.
BMW Facing $5M Lawsuit for Design Flaw Involving Cupholders
None of that works. Covid is here to stay. You're just saying that these kids should hide their face and stay away from their friends for their whole life
No Agenda Show 1409: “Viral Blizzard” with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak
My 2021 Goals Review
Making a magical TypeScript cheat sheet
Pretty bold. I don't know much about Amsterdam, but I've heard burglars in the USA are usually very careful not to break into a house when people are home, as the consequences are much more severe compared to burglarizing an unoccupied house.
Likely FOMO, and being hyped into it by shills.
The Mimetic Theory of Desire
It sounds odd but I believe sometimes creating that obligation can hurt people's efforts. Anecdotally, I've seen many people sign up with a personal trainer, planning to go regularly, find the first few training sessions hard and then not want to go again as they know the trainer will push them. I try to give people the advice of going routinely even if they don't have a routine once they're there. Associate it as a place you go before you associate it with any other feelings and you might find yourself having a workout just because you're there.
I find that if there is even a hint of latency with these types of tools it puts me in a foul mood
Move somewhere more expensive :) There are a places in the world where 7.5 million euros won’t get you far.

It really sounds ridiculous, but having something to aspire to goes a long way toward bringing that drive back.
After reading the whole thing, I got the distinct impression that the author probably strongly dislikes readers who want (or are used to!) an argument presented in the first 5 paragraphs.
The find my network is designed so that it does not directly or indirectly reveal location of the primary device or any intermediaries to apple
London is primarily Omicron at this point - it was 50% of infections 4 days ago and spreading much quicker.
> What's the endgame plan?

How about unification, under the government of Taiwan? Is everybody down with that? No? Oh, then maybe the mainland could see why Taiwan isn't down with unification on the mainland's terms.

But that's the problem. Neither side is willing to be unified "under" the other. That's not unification; that's subordination. Neither is willing to be subordinated. So no non-violent unification is currently possible.
I think the YAML issues center around a simple fact, few are taking e.g. 1000+ line YAML (or YAML for X) dev seriously. Complex YAML becomes code, and requires as much e.g. refactoring, idioms, reuse, static checking. At least it's not terribly hard to make a script output it as a format
If good news happens, you don't need to do anything. If bad things happen, you need to do something fast. I don't think this is unreasonable.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately.

Also, it looks like your account has swerved into using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of ideology, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for. I had to go all the way back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190538 to see a comment that wasn't like this.

That's not ok. I don't want to ban you, so if you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the intended use of the site, we'd appreciate it.
The latest data released on Friday by the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that 54% of positive tests in England taken on Tuesday and Wednesday were of Omicron, and more than 80% of cases in London.
YouTube TV Reaches Deal to Bring Back Disney-Owned Channels Including ESPN
It's not just climate change, which is a runaway effect that is unlikely to be effectively mitigated by geoengineering without even worse side effects. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.

It's global ecosystem collapse: grandparents, and eventually parents, will gladly die so that the children can eat.

There is no point in having savings or a pension, because the system that connects money to value is a dead man walking.

I live in The Netherlands and I have a child. I'm trying to figure out how to waterproof the bottom half of my house.
Actually, toddlers will all have great super social skills, because they will not believe that "smiling = you're happy", which is totally wrong. They'll need to figure out emotions using tone of voice and the look of the person's eyes and maybe upper cheeks.

So I disagree with your point entirely. And I've provided even more reasoning than you did about why today's children will be even better at social conduct than their predecessors.