skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers here do not add up. Here (https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/index.htm) CDC says the US spends $225 billion/year on treating tobacco related disease.

In the article the authors claim US tobacco tax revenue is $2.81 billion. But here )https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-fact/federal-tobacco-...) the number is about $12 billion.

Nevertheless, tobacco is a very large, very bad problem, but it also seems like patches and vapes for delivering nicotine could put a big dent in tobacco use, and cut a lot of the ill effects, maybe in the amount of tens of billions each year. I would guess if there was a reduced harm form of alcohol health experts would be all over it. Yet I see no PSAs that overtly tell smokers to vape or use nicotine gum. Such a message could be placed on every pack of cigarettes.

Because there is a low cost alternative to cigarettes, why not tax cigarettes even more than they are taxed now, offer vapes as an alternative, and see how much progress can be made using simple, obvious measures.
You can explain coding in a half hour without a book. Just walk through the steps to accomplish some everyday task, like making a cup of tea.

Programming is just steps to do a task and a computer is a thing that can repeat those steps - you don't need a book to explain it - I just did it in a few sentences.

The only proper way to learn something is for it to be useful in your life. If there are games or opportunities to modify games using some scripting languages - kids will want to learn it.

Books are not fun for most kids, so you're going about it wrong - if you can't make it fun for them without books, you've already failed.

Books are good for additional information and a reference, after you've been taught something by a good teacher. They are a bad tool for learning just about everything.
> ultra-rich are grossly (I'd argue an order of magnitude) undertaxed right now

Couldn't agree more on that point. I don't however think earmarking 1.7T for a very select 12% of Americans that have a far higher than average earning potential fixes the problem with the policy though. That 1.7T could be used in far broader more equal ways.
Surprised to see this posted again, I wrote this, feel free to ask me anything!
I suspect this has a lot to do with apple raising awareness of tracking capabilities. I'd love to know if other forms of this attack increase as a result.
You can learn the basics of FPGA development on your own (I did), but you need to go to a company that uses them to actually get good.[0] Which probably means a defense contractor or maybe a telecom company. A finance firm isn't going to hire some random person who knows FPGA dev unless they have done real world projects.

[0]: I'm sure there are exceptions of people who self taught themselves and are great, but it is significantly harder to break into than software.
No, just that it can end up that way if you are avoiding other parts of your life. :)

I will say that the overall concept of a "successful career" that is pushed is very, very overrated. You get the sense it is a message meant for a specific type of person that needs that void filled, and it is sent by that same type of person. To which I say: don't be that person, so you're not unduly manipulated by the messaging.
It's always nice to have more alternatives to traditional unix tools/commands, especially these new tools written in Rust that are popping up.

The website claims exa is a "modern replacement for ls", but unlike ls it doesn't seem to follow the "do one thing" unix concept - the git integration is one reason why. I'm not sure the git integration is a good idea.
France, like everyone else, has all the communications channels it needs with Taiwan, and does business with Taiwan as it sees fit, but I was not specifically referring to that but rather to closing the embassy in China and other actions against China.
You’re advocating for a position on China’s 2 child policy that, in America, would most certainly would be deemed unconstitutional under a disparate impact framework. I know we’re talking about China here, but most Western countries have recognized that you can target a subgroup without saying you’re targeting a subgroup. You’re basically arguing that the Holocaust would not be a genocide as long as Germany was universally applying its no [insert Jewish characteristic] policy.

Just to underscore my point here, almost every aspect of your viewpoint on the genocide China is committing is abhorrent and untenable if you believe in human rights.
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> this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car and they found it stuck on the underside of my front passenger wheel well. I wish he took pics before he threw it away but it looks like this:'

Didn't take pictures?

Didn't leave it where it was and call police?

Didn't happen.

Made up for attention.

Here's more proof it was fake as hell:

> thanks for all the support everyone. Pleading faceSunflower I’m fine and doing okay! Muting that thread, got super overwhelming really quickly and even more weird people in my DMs. Face with rolling eyes I have absolutely nothing to promote but if I have any updates I’ll let you all know!
So your application needs privileged access (to create tables, triggers, etc) to the database in order to run? That's an anti-pattern. Your deployed application should only need least privileges possible. If you need to do extra things to your database, it should be done in migrations, which should be more privileged, but now you've decoupled the creation of these extra db objects from the library itself, meaning if the library changes, your migrations will not be in sync.
I would love to acquire power and label a bunch of things I dislike as “vices” so I can control opposition.

Posting too much on social media is a vice. It releases dopamine according to my experts and can be harmful to others. It shouldn’t be done often. So now your “vice license” needs to have this “badge”.

I don’t want any part of the nanny state you describe.
Same, but I have friends who have gotten royally screwed on this :(
> It's become extremely clear that "adults" are not very good at being rational and self-controling.

Consequence of several generations of "self-esteem-oriented" child rearing. If people are not taught self-control when they are young, why will they suddenly exhibit it when they are adults?
Equating Burqa bans in France and what China is doing to Uighurs is maybe not as extreme as what you're disagreeing with but is also very distasteful.
I recently did an embedded project using rust (https://yager.io/vumeter/vu.html). It was great, and I'm planning to use Rust for embedded projects in the future. There are a few pain points, especially around rust's relatively limited polymorphism, mutable refs, and the constraints imposed on async/await by type system limitations, but it was still super nice compared to using C(++). I'm also optimistic these pain points can be mostly fixed with improvements to the type system. I think they might already have improved length polymorphism - I think I saw something about that recently.
> This is actually an explicit requirement if you want to get a PhD, which I've found to be a valuable way of opening up fulfilling career opportunities that would otherwise not be available to me.

As someone who’s considering getting a PhD, how do you know if you’re capable of completing it. I hear a lot that academia is a lot of bullshit and that you don’t have to be particularly competent to get one.

But at the same time, contributing novel research to a field just seems so foreign to my own abilities. Particularly when I haven’t historically been very academically gifted in some of the areas I’d need to be to succeee in the fields I’m interested (to be fair though, the last time I was in school was high school, where I was much less mature and there were many things other than just intelligence that negatively affected my performance)
> Maybe they are one reason cognitive decline in children isn’t dramatically worse.

What's your household income?
The most notable difference between TV and computers of various sizes is it's interactive vs. passive, so the "reducing screen time" needs more nuance to the discussion - likewise Roblox etc together as a family sounds lovely vs. isolated dopamine hits from Instagram potentially allowing your peers/strangers dictate how you should feel about yourself (wrongly in either direction).
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> 4 years of education, with a lot of the material being superfluous to what you end up doing.

Not sure that is the problem of universities though. Look at computer science, I wish I would be able to apply my bsc/msc education in my job but that simply is not the case.

Sure, university taught me how to think in a different way but the actual course work is not so helpful. I would not fault the university for this.

It sounds like what you want is an apprenticeship-system and not a university.
Because of how each state handles education separately, and the presence of private schools, in the US you have a wide variety of high school outcomes. From kids that aren’t literate, to kids who could probably earn a bachelors in less than a year, if their high school education was considered in a more holistic fashion. Therefore, university programs that are set up to cater to the largest population possible necessarily aim for the lowest common denominator. And of course there is always the perverse incentive that colleges and universities are paid by the credit, so reducing course loads would probably never make it past the bean counters.
Thank you so much for this. I mean, it sounds obvious to state it like this - set the goal first. And yet it is actually something I didn't do.
The French are on their fifth attempt at a republic. Some of them ended...badly.

The Germans are on their second or third (depending on how you count... I don't consider DDR to have been a real republic). The first one ended...badly.

The United States is still on its first republic. If it weren't for some degree of independence for the individual states the United States would never have been formed in the first place, and, if it had been, there would likely have been many civil wars, not just one.

It's almost like a bunch of highly educated and intelligent individuals spent several years studying the failure modes of previous republics and then designing a system that would be robust against those failure modes.
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No, I think such concerns are stupid. I also don't think the Uyghurs are "replacing the Han."

But I do find it interesting that China is apparently conducting the first genocide in history where the population being genocided is increasing rather than decreasing.
So what is your suggestion, just let bad situations happen to you? Regardless of if the police actually do anything, it's important to have a paper trail of things so that you point to them if you ever have to end up in court.
Do people go to university to become "educated" or to get a job?

The answer to that question should motivate the shape of the education system. The answer is implied, of course, but pretty obvious people go into debt for hopes of better employment opportunities.
It's part of the App Store upload process, and a legacy/holdover from using WebObjects 5 as part of the back-end for the original iTunes Music Store. WO5 was a full Java rewrite of WebObjects (which was originall Objective-C back when it was started at NeXT), because in around 2000 that seemed like a sensible choice given where the mindshare was in their target market (pretty enterprise - it was like $50k for a full deployment license at the time).
My DIY projects for the last 3 years
Parents of infants have high rates of heart diseases? I found following estimate about covid:

> approximately 1 out of 500 children in the United States has experienced COVID-19-associated orphanhood or death of a grandparent caregiver

Those are all caregivers , not just any grandparent.
$250k. Wow. I'd have to say you'd need multiple doctorates, you'd written at least one book that every programmer regards as "The" reference manual, and gotten a Nobel Prize for something. I've been writing software professionally since 1979 and I'm at not quite 3/4 of your goal. Maybe location and choice of tool set has something to do with it. Good luck.
Your description matches American labour camps / private prisons. So, what happens?
We can't, we have exposed ourselves way too big with China over the last decades. Especially us Germans are a major part of the problem, given that our car industry has their only growth market in China - Europe and the US are saturated, South America, large parts of Asia and Africa are too poor (corrupt elites aside), and Arabia wants luxury cars that our car makers don't have - so the amount of influence from the car lobby on our politics is what has kept the CDU (the Conservative party that lost out end of September in the elections) to go against China.
> Sure, but you can't seriously fault the college for not declaring "Our $LiberalArtsMajor majors are usually unemployed."

Why not? We expect homeopathic medications to include "Not an FDA approved treatment for X" on the label.
It's the tree feature that made me investigate the speed of exa (see my other comment in this thread) because it was very slow. Otherwise I agree, exa is neat.
Because it never happened.
Slip it into a young child’s backpack, they rarely have iPhones. Wait for them to get out of school…

Do you see the danger
For example faang salaries of the similar roles i’m currently in. Not to mention that i’ve overgrown it.
You're missing the point. NK/Iran aggressiveness isn't remotely similar to Lithuania letting Taiwan open an office.

As for how real the threat is - I'm not an expert, and I don't know you calculate threat, but NK does have nuclear weapon and it's probably the only reason why the are allowed to starve millions of human beings. They also literally, well, threatened to use it. Iran doesn't have one yet, but are lying about their status of development, enriching way more then required for civil purposes, and kicking out international watchers. Oh, and at the same time threatening to wipe Israel off the map. Saying there's no threat sounds like nitpicking to me.
There is a cohort of “replacements” to traditional tools.

Check here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

Some of them are great, some are opinionated.
The 90v(?) AC that comes through the phone line to make it ring was intended to be powerful enough to ring a physical bell. Back before the exchange was automated, home telephones had a hand-cranked generator to produce that signal. According to my dad, kids used to take those out of old phones and use them for all kinds of shenanigans. (Like shocking their friends, siblings, and the dog, I'm guessing.)
I think also that developing software has no health benefits, none, but only as a counterpoint I do not wish to argue. The better argument is that something is deadly, not that something has no health benefits.

What I do wish to argue is that the author failed to recognize the difference between tobacco, and what is in nearly all manufactured cigarettes, that is killing people. What is killing people is that most smokers are not smoking tobacco, but half-tobacco, half recorrugated garbage off the floor made into a paper before shredding and infused with additives like 300 carcinogenic chemicals intended to increase the addictiveness of nicotine and smoking.

Pipe tobacco is just plain old tobacco, with no additives but water. Pipe smokers don't seem to suffer the fates of cigarette smokers.

Death rates for current pipe smokers were little if at all higher than for non-smokers, even with men smoking 10 pipefuls per day and with men who had smoked pipes for more than 30 years. [1]

Among the pipe smokers.... The US mortality ratios are 0.8 for non-inhalers and 1.0 for inhalers. [2]

This means pipe smokers who inhale live as long as nonsmokers, and pipe smokers that don’t inhale live longer than non-smokers.

I don't really want to criticize the author, who is merely expressing frustration and compassion and attempting to persuade smokers to quit and non-smokers to never start. But his beef is not really with natural tobacco. Big Tobacco (with their chemical death sticks) is the enemy here.

[1] https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/tobacco/nnbbmq.pdf No. 1103, p.112

[2] ibid., No. 1103, page 92
This leaves higher education for the rich which isn't a real solution.

Real solutions would be cost control or changing our economy so that useless degrees are no longer a requirement/advantage
> It won't warn you of an AirTag someone attached to your car, unless you make it a habit to constantly press "scan" all day.

Wouldn't you only need to scan whenever you return to your car?
I have a friend who was always the best in his class at Uni and has become a lead doctor in a major hospital. He once told me that he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day when he was a kid because his parents needed to work all the time. He turned out just fine.

I remember back in the day television was the bad guy in town. I wonder if iPads aren’t much better since they foster interaction and not just dull watching.
If the forgiveness-plan is done, how do you feel that you are now behind on the real estate market compared to someone 10 years your junior? Why not forgive (past and current) tuition rather than debt? At least that would equal the playing field and would acknowledge that tuition was horrible, rather than empahsing the debt aspect of it.
I think they can be, although I'd like to see specific numbers on that. Killing roughly half a million Americans a year is a high bar to clear in terms of harmful social policy changes.

But there's also a trend against long term damage here: smoking rates have been declining for decades, and the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that higher taxes and civil penalties (like fines for smoking in parks) do reduce smoking across all ages and demographics. Fewer people smoking overall means fewer people who are subject to any sort of systemic abuse. That feels like a decent tradeoff to me, especially when we consider the knock-on effects of smoking itself (individual and community health, pollution, dental outcomes, &c).
It's only an open question because the government has inserted itself into the healthcare delivery business. If "we" were not paying for other people's health care, "we" would not need to care what they did or didn't do with regards to their own bodies.
> there isn't much more to what the government should subsidize, for the same reason the government shouldn't provide universal free yacht moorings

Let's be aware of our bias toward our own knowledge and work.

Knowledge of humanities and social sciences is not a luxury; it addresses almost all the critical issues in society - freedom, peace, war, prosperity, politics, economics, human nature through which it all happens, communication, conflict, power, democracy, capitalism, communism, etc. etc. All things more important than whatever most of us do.
There is the world of Hello Ruby [0], book(s) and other learning material translated into 20 languages. I think they are for younger kids. There is also some material for teachers.

[0]:https://www.helloruby.com/
Emotional regulation issues are generally caused by childhood abuse. Mainland China is a society suffering from untreated PTSD and inter generational abuse.
We also burned coal for decades before people stared learning about how bad it was for our planet. How does modern awareness change the ethics of a perpetual ethnic slaughter?
You're arguing against claims I didn't make. Liberal Arts is perfectly valuable, but burying yourself financially to get a degree in one of the subjects, which is what will happen to most people who complete one of those degrees from NYU, isn't a smart move and that's where my lack of sympathy lies.

No offense but you're arguing against some thought you have of me in your head not any of my actual stances on liberal arts. My only point is that if you're going to go to an expensive college then the trade off better be worth it otherwise there are far cheaper alternatives (reading is free mostly!) to get that value.
I believe schools should only earn based on percentage of post education wages.

Need to think through the exact mechanism, but at least public schools should operate this way. Once college has skin in the game, education would change so fast for the better your head would spin
The polonium being bound in a ceramic matrix protects it from accidental release, but it's easy enough to extract it deliberately.
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> Does freedom have inherent value, or does it have to lead to something else in order to be valuable?

If you assume the first then you're a fundamentalist. In order to compare different moral values, we need to look at what they lead to in practice, and weigh that. So the abstract "freedom" doesn't cut it, you need to be able to say, what is the practical benefit of such freedom? So that we could compare it with practical disadvantages of the freedom, in case of smoking, things like people getting addicted and less healthy, and Philip Morris shares decreasing in value.
The most important argument is that not all programming is systems programming.

A lot of projects choose C, C++ or Rust only because they need performance:

* Backend services

* Numerical computation

* Game development

* Rendering engines, e.g., browser engines

System programming is usually needed for what we consider Operating Systems, e.g. kernel, system libraries, and shell.

In my career as a C++ programmer I have worked on a lot of projects that I would otherwise write in C#, Java, Julia, or Go.
What makes people think a bureaucracy deserves that kind of control over individuals?
It would be interesting to see what would happen if the blue areas stopped sending the red areas simulated pieces of green paper and the red areas stopped sending the blue areas food, water, and energy.

I say "areas" because there aren't really any "blue states". Just islands of blue in a sea of red.

Interesting in theory, that is. I would recommend against running this experiment in real life. Strongly.
This reminds me of all the screen time I had as a kid with my parents, taking turns on single player games (a life or a race). A lot of time spent thinking about how the next turn would go, who would be better at this level (my mom was great at some Zelda temples and I was better at others). Way more thinking happened than any other TV activity.
You seem to love to trot out the "1 in 3" statistic, and have done it several times in this thread. Maybe time to look behind this catchy headline:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/06/...
I think some day there is a possibility of going without the glass. And the whole display is simply a Plastic OLED but with a scratch resistance layer on top. Unfortunately it make the screen "feels" a little less luxurious.
I like how HN switched from "kids are better off with stay at home parent" to "infants need to be in childcare".

Cause these are year and half or so old at max.
So you are saying that having lots of children is intrinsic to being Uyghur? It's a Uyghur "characteristic"?

The US law around this issue is in flux, see for instance [0], where policies that were neutrally applied but impacted people a specific religion were ruled constitutional. This specific case was later rendered moot by congressional action.

Regardless, is the claim that China is conducting a genocide, or that its actions would be in violation of the Civil Rights Act if it were a US state? Are we enforcing the Civil Rights Act globally now?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Division_v._Smith
I see the creepy potential. I don't see the danger.