skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the relationship between marijuana smoking and lung damange isn't so cut and dry bad as smoking nicotine is. Here's a blurb:

> Regular smoking of marijuana by itself causes visible and microscopic injury to the large airways that is consistently associated with an increased likelihood of symptoms of chronic bronchitis that subside after cessation of use. On the other hand, habitual use of marijuana alone does not appear to lead to significant abnormalities in lung function when assessed either cross-sectionally or longitudinally, except for possible increases in lung volumes and modest increases in airway resistance of unclear clinical significance. Therefore, no clear link to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has been established. Although marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens and cocarcinogens, findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway cancer from light or moderate use, although evidence is mixed concerning possible carcinogenic risks of heavy, long-term use.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23802821/
Who's responsible when it turns out that the anonymization of highly confidential patient data in the raw data is flawed, as it inevitably is?
> The government doesn't really have the authority to classify information generated by private entities like Pfizer barring specific legislation.

They can classify patents at will.
How is this any different than Plaid? How has Plaid managed to avoid a lawsuit like this?
Not much. Original creator just wanted more help on growing it and is busy with a full time job. I on the other hand love the idea of buying SAAS businesses. This is my 2nd one. 1st one I bought has grown to low 7 figures in revenue. Not sure if I can replicate the same success but hopefully that's the idea.
No, LIBOR is your borrowing cost, the rate at which you'd be able to borrow (ie the rate that others would offer to you to lend you money).

LIBID is the rate at which you'd be willing to borrow. So the difference between the two is like bid vs ask.
This link is behind a Google account wall so I can't access it. Is there a summary available, or an alternative link?
What technical restrictions can they do?

It can't be sandboxing, as the entitlements and/or existence of sandboxing for an app is enforced by the App Store, and we've just said we're not using that.

It also removes privacy protections: Facebook is required to ask permission to track you on iOS. It's only required to by platform policy in the App Store license agreement. They're not using that any more, so goodbye opt-in tracking.
Oh damn, I set my family domain up on google apps back when it was free, and am definitely not paying $X/user/month just for email.

I'd like to keep use my me@foo_family.com email address
I'd like to keep using gmail.

Is it possible to somehow migrate 10+ years of email from me@foo_family.com to me@gmail.com? From there, I just need to somehow point *@foo_family.com emails to something that forwards to the new individual gmail addresses.
The Democratic party has become dominated by illiberal authoritarians, as I'm sure you've noticed. If you criticize these people, you are the enemy. Just look at Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema.
This law does not prevent teaching that _individual_ white people or that _groups_ of white people were oppressors. It's aimed at those who are interested in painting the narrative that _all_ white people are/were oppressors.

You are deliberately misreading it to push your politics-du-jour.
> The government doesn't really have the authority to classify information generated by private entities

Pfizer is a defense contractor. It is pretty standard boilerplate that when you receive DoD funds the government can restrict access to information, even unrelated to the products or research directly attributable to that funding.

Not to say that I think the government would actually do that, just that they could.
It's hard to analyse the data from treatments, as treatments don't have a control group. Trials are designed with control groups, placebos and double-blind process to gather data and then analyse it.

We may have loads of data from real people being treated, but good luck trying to analyse it in a scientific way.

We need effective vaccines, and we need to be able to trust them. Just treating people with a vaccine doesn't always give that trust and confidence.

(I hope I got my medical terminology right, I'm not a clinician, but have been close to covid-19 related medical research)
You’re a living example of the profits to be made when your focus is delighting the customer
> Wasn't this the whole idea of "digital nomadism" which seemed to be popular in the 2000s? Now that remote work is popular, we'll probably see a resurgence.

Yeah, could be. That said, the same force that allows remote work (COVID) also prevents travel, or at least makes it less attractive. We'll have to see if the remote work stays after the COVID leaves.

Also, don't they all just go to Bali anyway? ;-)

There is also a question of -- are you actually becoming part of the community you're joining? For example, I hear a lot of guys (it seems to be mostly guys) who've gone to Puerto Rico have encountered a ton of resentment. It doesn't help that many fit a "crypto bro" stereotype (or is that just the media reports?).

One of the more positive versions of this (though not without problems) has been the "back to Africa" movement. Although there's sometimes resentment, mostly I get the impression that people are received well (also, there's a choice: racism here or resentment there?). And, the thing that makes me feel a little more positively about it than "nomadism" is that this is done with an intention to stay, integrate, and invest.

(I also think some of the negative reaction comes from negative perceptions of Western culture. When the arrivals turn out to be chaste respectful people who are not on drugs, I suspect opinions change. That was certainly the case in India for a while, where it was unfairly assumed that Americans were worthless hippies who slept around too much. Well, India did get its share of hippies, so I can understand...)

I guess you also do see these things happen in an idiosyncratic way, usually as a result of marriage. For example, a European web developer who meets a Jamaican and moves there to be closer to her family, stuff like that.

> Not to mention the impact on prices in those countries.

...but yeah, it only works if it isn't popular.
The article references that existing contracts will stay on LIBOR. It’s only dead for new deals.
sure go for it :).
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

Crossing into personal attack and snark, besides being against HN's rules, has the effect of discrediting your own point of view. That is a poor trade to make in exchange for a momentary bit of venting. Not only that, but if your view happens to actually be correct, then it has the side effect of discrediting the truth, which is not in any of our interests. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Can you please not create accounts to break the HN guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you talking law here, or ethics? Your talk about how employees are "resources" with a "duty" to "care" about the business sounds a lot more morality play and less legalistic than you're suddenly switching too now that the shoe is on the other foot.
I was a Google Play Music user on iOS. I switched to Apple Music after Play moved to Youtube Music. Compared to Google Play Music, I found the entire experience to be worse in Youtube Music and got zero benefit from the switch. After using Youtube Music for a few months I did a 3 month trial for Apple Music and just never went back.

Also does Youtube Music premium remove Youtube ads? That was a thing with Google Play Music for years, but I thought they removed the benefit with the switch? Looking at the subscription page [1], they only mention ad-free music.

[1]: https://music.youtube.com/music_premium/musicfeed
Speculation is made either way without datapoints. What's the harm in being transparent if at worst some spurious (but provably spurious) correlations mislead a few people already prone to mistrust? Higher transparency would also dissolve a lot of the claims that the pharmaceutical companies are "hiding" something regarding the actual effectiveness of their vaccines and therapeutics.
#nohello is about "hello" being the only message when you have a direct ask, not about not saying hello to peers on chat, ever. You can be friendly and direct.
> Because it's not

That is misleading at best. It absolutely is part of an ongoing clinical trial regardless us if it is authorized for emergency use.

How many people who were given the vaccine were told that it is part of an ongoing clinical trial, authorized for emergency use, and the data from the trial won’t be available for years? I suspect a very small percent.
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
Ok - it's possible that I was commenting outside the guidelines[1], which would be a fair reason to downvote.

If that wasn't the case, then please instead ask for clarification next time - people are generally fairly forthcoming as long as you're not dismissive or intimidating (although it can be hard to tell what random strangers on the internet will perceive as such).

As to the explanation: I don't think anyone can claim to be perfect, and we all have to go through various learning phases (in various learning dimensions) throughout life.

Increasingly that process is on record, for most of us -- as it is in the linked article here. It's risky and could stunt growth to call people out for their failures; especially on platforms that have a wide audience. There are often ways to find more constructive, positive and healthy personal development.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you for that. Much appreciated.
What's your desired outcome of a program like this? The purpose of antitrust is to encourage competition for the benefit of consumers. Improving competition is a necessary, but not sufficient outcome. Creating competition for competition's sake, irrespective of the consumer effect, is against the spirit of antitrust.
The total amount of new weaponry to Ukraine is not significant given the scale of the invasion he is preparing. ...and I don't think Putin really cares about the additional few Russian soldiers that die.

> When I went there some years ago I was surprised everybody was speaking Russian

This is true for most of Ukraine. The western rural areas do still speak Ukrainian and there's been some push to keep that culture alive, but the entire east and south are very Russian, and it's by far the most common language used - even among ethnic Ukrainians - even in Kiev.

> ...if Putin invades, they will be slaves forever.

They probably expect the setup of a puppet Russian client state, similar to Belarus. "Slavery" is a bit hyperbolic. My point is that I'm not sure how many soldiers are willing to die over what seems like an unlikely victory.

One of the main problems with Ukrainian defense is that the largest cities, and hence the majority of the population, lives of the population lives in one of a hand full of cities that is within 50-100 miles of the Russia or Belarus border (Kiev, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Marpiol. Ironically, Odessa is the western most large city - but it has a massive Russia population.

If the advance is quick and takes these cities, the Ukrainian will see their capital and the majority of their population under the Russian military. Given that, I think the Ukrainian military will capitulate rapidly. I think the Ukrainians know that as well, so it really demotivates units to stay and fight. I don't think any strategist believes Ukraine can win a fixed conventional battle.

In fact, my guess is that the defeat in Armenia due to drone warfare, and the subsequent agreements between Ukraine and Turkey to arm with drone, might have hastened Putin's sense of urgency.

But my feeling is that Russia is honestly on the fence between taking all of Ukraine by force, or simply extracting a humiliating negotiated settlement from the west.

If I were a psychopath, and I were Putin, I would demand NATO troop withdrawal from the Baltics (maybe offering similar withdrawals on the Russian side), all of the territory east of the Dniper river (+/- some anomolies), formal recognition of the annexations, and a new lucrative Germany natural gas deal. ...and then be willing to settle for just "most" of the land east of the Dniper (but it would need to include the coast and the Crimea water canal).
I think there's also a difference between buildings that architecturally aren't aligned with today's aesthetic, versus those that are truly ugly due to poor design or lack of consideration for any aesthetic.

A brutalist or Bauhaus building today could look old, ugly, etc. but one can still appreciate its aesthetic in context... A glass condo copy and pasted in CAD software and then rotated to fit a plot of land without consideration for anything... That's ugly.
I agree with sibling comment; parent comment may be terse, but I didn't find it shallow.
IMO it would serve the common person well if we changed the way the law works so that if a corporation sues you for a laundry list of things, if a single claim gets thrown out, then they all do. That prevents this insane pile-on where a half-afternoon's work by 4 people in their giant legal department turns into a multi-year nightmare for an average citizen. I think that would be a fair way to reign in the corporate "throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, or at least hope we intimidate this regular Joe into submission" approach that's all too common today.
I feel like you'd probably get more predictable experience by using an always-on VPN configuration on your phone than a wifi hotspot.
Talking about fonts for programmers, I recently discovered Cozette font (https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette). In my opinion, this is the nicest new programming font. I switched over to it and love it so much.
For some reason this is a reoccurring dream for me as well, and its been a few years since I've taken a class.
after swindling millions for decades
This outage has it all, distributed systems, non-uniform memory access contention (aka "you wanted scale up? how about instead we make your CPU a distributed system that you have to reason about?"), a defect in a log-structured merge tree based data store, malfunctioning heartbeats affecting scheduling, wow wow wow.

Big props to the on-calls during this.
Wachy: A New Approach to Performance Debugging
The road rage itself is already illegal. Why shouldn't tempting it by hogging the left lane be illegal too?
The dream hypothesis can be discarded with the shared OBE.

Think about it, can 2 people's dream be synchronized from the perspective of each other? Because that's how a shared OBE feels.

Once you have some of these, you know these aren't dreams.
I see. I wasn't aware of the non-subscription experience being so bad. Good to know, but yes the paid version definitely uses a song database comparable to any other streaming service.
Looking for a similar solution, I had one Huawei USB 3G stick lying around and used that with RPI 3. Everything worked just fine but after a couple of days it would randomly disconnect and wouldn't restore the connection so currently, I am looking for some 3G/4G router to do the same job.
My version is me running late for an exam and then frantically searching for the exam room the entire time as the clock ticks down.

The wave of relief and euphoria that overcomes me when I wake up is literally spiritual.
Are you really suggesting that Roblox's cut should be lower purely because the target market is children? Why? If anything, the fact that a kid can code a game in a high-level environment and immediately start making money—without any of the normal challenges of setting up infrastructure, let alone marketing and discovery—is amazing, and a feat for which Roblox should definitely be rewarded.

In any case, what's the alternative? To teach your son how to build the game from scratch in Unity, spin up a server infrastructure that won't crumble with more than a few concurrent players (not to mention the cash required for this), figure out distribution, and then actually get people to find and play the game? That seems quite unreasonable for most children/parents.

If this were easy, a competitor would have come in and offered the same service with significantly lower fees.
Had those about high school recently and I'm 35 and in grad school.
"New Small business"

Go with something simple, tried and tested. I prefer Github. Never warmed up to the idea of Gitlab's UI and few years ago tried its OSS version which was slow as hell (this was in 2015 so it's been a while). I used to be on Bitbucket but when they got acquired by Atlassian, game over.
The main mistake IMO is that, the day before the outage, they made a significant Consul-related infra change. Then they have this massive outage, where Consul is clearly the root cause, but nobody ever tries rolling that recent change back? That’s weird.

I went into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30015826

The outage occurring could certainly happen to anyone, but it taking 72 hours to resolve seems like a pretty fundamental SRE mistake. It’s also strange that “try rollbacks of changes related to the affected system” isn’t even acknowledged as a learning in their learnings/action items section.
While I personally think digitalengineer's comment was low-effort and knee-jerk, I think this general thread of discussion is on topic for the comment replied to, which was specifically about how the postmortem increased the commenter's respect for Roblox as a company and made them want to work there. I think an acceptable compromise between "ethical considerations drown out any technical discussion" and "any non-technical discussion gets downvoted/flagged to oblivion" would be to quarantine comments about the ethics of Roblox's business model to a single thread of discussion, and this one seems as good as any.
I believe patients have a right to privacy that deserves careful protection.
For anyone that finds it useful, same idea, but a script that can run locally and produce something an RSS reader could parse:

https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/15e61acc003bb6d46a458001fe...
The camera app in Google Pixels running Android 12 tries to "fix" some URLs encoded QR codes, resulting in wrong URLs being shown and opened by the browser if the user clicks on the suggested link.
That's exactly my point. People who are doing lots of mounts are already demonstrably not performance-sensitive to a difference of a few milliseconds. They already waited 20 minutes for the stupid cluster autoscaler to provision a machine for them. They DGAF.
I was just making fun of the stupid "if you can't pronounce it" thing.
Does your son have other alternatives to learn programming and make money other than Roblox?

If there are, then it's a great lesson about looking outside of one's immediate circumstance and striving towards something better.
> That question applies just as much to links from "sciencebasedmedicine.org" as it does to the OP.

Sure, which is why being aware of both is valuable.
If you have two interfaces, Foo and Bar, in Java, and you want to write some code that does something special for a type that is both Foo and Bar, what do you do? It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, you have to define a new interface called FooBar that extends Foo and Bar and you have to go find every class that implements both Foo and Bar, and change them to implement FooBar, instead. In Rust, I can just write a function: `fn <T: Foo + Bar> do_stuff(o: T)`. Done. Didn't have to define a new type, didn't have to touch old stable code, etc.

Since Java 8 there is static and default methods in interfaces.

Curious, what rust sql query builder are you refer to?
That doesn't sound like something I'd post, and there's no occurrence of it in HN Search.
I think competition for competition's sake is good. Historically and inherently it will ultimately result in better outcomes for consumers as ultimately that's the purpose of all companies - providing goods and services.
Learn sales yourself is a third option, you just have to allocate time to it and away from dev work. It will pay itself back many times over, not just in business either
Social media-fueled, very leftwing ideologues. Typically also trying to “cancel” those they disagree with.
I like the rule whoever estimates lowest gets to do it. If you aren't in the running to do it, your estimate doesn't count. It's easy to armchair quarterback if someone else is on the line.
I use Consolas. Very good with small font sizes.
Netflix just raised monthly prices a few days ago. I guess investors have voted with their feet now, and decided that the price uptick is not going to make up for the slowing subscriber growth.
I'm really jazzed about how many great new monospaced typefaces are coming out lately.

My current default is IBM Plex Mono (Light), but this one looks super cool too.

I don't think I like the idea of "baking a custom build" with letter variants, though. A font file should be like an album - fixed at time of release, with one version uniformly published, so that if you use font X on machine A, and use font X on machine B, you get the same results.

I also don't think I'm on board with the ligatures for code bandwagon. It doesn't accurately map 1:1, the symbols to the ASCII contents of the file, which bothers me.
We write things down, and most things are relevant only in the moment or for a short period of time. As time goes by, the usefulness of our notes usually decays rather quickly.

This is the key bit for me. Once I started prominently dating my notes it became much easier to see at a glance how things naturally become less relevant as time passes. Sorting by recency makes it much easier to find the relevant things than inevitably stale categorizations.
What is "missing" is that the police apparently can do whatever they like, because they cannot be held accountable. They're untouchable. If you criticise a police officer, you criticise the police as a whole, and that is not acceptable to them and to society at large. It is un-American to do so. They represent the law, and they themselves are above the law.

Accountability, that is missing!
It's much, much harder to understand the data if you don't have a control group. But once you have an effective treatment, you no longer have a control group if you're at all ethical. You cannot keep a working treatment from people just to do more science, that is deeply and fundamentally unethical.

So the moment we knew the vaccines worked, the science got harder. Well, that point also save an enormous amount of lives, so I don't think this is something to complain about. It's still possible to do a lot of good science now, even randomized controlled trials. They just can't compare to unvaccinated groups, but you can still do stuff like compare double-vaccinated with triple vaccinated.
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