skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a bit about that, and now that tocopherol is no longer used as an additive, the only questions seem to be 1) if flavorings are not turned into bad things by the vaporization process 2) if nicotine has enough negative side effects when inhaled to warrant restricting what's an efficient and self-directed smoking cessation method.

About 1) the solution for the FDA has been to ban flavorings, under the "think about the children" idea. While the risk of childen getting addicted to nicotine could be a concern, given the lack of measured risk, it could be as innocent as enjoying beer. About 2), nicotine seem to have negative effects on arteries and the skin mostly, causing premature aging (increase elastases and metalloproteases).

We may have more data in a generation or two, but it would be advisable to plan on reducing your use of e-cigs.
You talk in plural form, but I can only find information about you on the page. With this kind of alpha, I'd expect a team of quant traders and physicists working on it (I actually talked with the creator of alphahub.us, he's a physicist). Are you intending to work full-time on it and what are the other plans (I saw you started a job at a new company)? Not trying to be skeptical, but this could be something life-changing if it works - already pretty hyped tbh.

The alphahub.us strategy has execution problems because some of the smaller companies in the NASDAQ have low trading volume, so it doesn't scale as easily as a macro strat. I've talked with people who run it and it runs into scalability issues even with limited amounts of capital. Still trying to find the catch with your offer because it looks amazing.
Your comment about people in Germany not picking up German surprised me. I don’t have a ton of first-hand experience, but my impression has been that it was more of necessity there than other European countries.
Diney Plus too
Bringing these things up during the early days of the pandemic would have gotten you blacklisted/shadowbanned on sites such as this one, as "please don't spread unfounded rumors - dang"
Yo do you know how much aircraft carriers and cruise missiles cost? You think they care about AWS egress?
I think you can say they are vilified as a group without saying they are powerless victims. I think they have a crappy job that is high risk high impact and regardless of if they are good or bad they get lumped in with the bad every time. I think they are people and I think sometimes we all backseat drive judging them. I think it’s fair to criticize them I don’t think it’s fair to call their viewpoint blanket propaganda.

Among the crimes Bragg said his office would not prosecute: marijuana misdemeanors, including selling more than three ounces; not paying public transportation fare; trespassing except a fourth degree stalking charge, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration in certain cases, and prostitution.

With that said, as you did change the subject, I do think there should be more accountability and reform and I’m not a fan of immunity. Not because they are all bad and we need to “put them in check,” but because most are good and we should have a system in place we all feel safe having, both “us” and “them.” Why can’t you be pro reform and pro police?
I was personally the victim of a minor crime which wasn’t investigated properly or prosecuted at all. (License plate, photo of perpetrator, traffic camera, witness, all in hand)

Locally politicians run on not prosecuting certain things and there are many news stories about repeat offenders not being prosecuted or getting comically gentle sentences. For example a young man with a history stole a car and then crashed it into a police car before they apprehended him and he got two weeks house arrest. A teenager getting caught smoking a cigarette wouldn’t be surprised to get a worse punishment from their parents.
Bob, I am pleased to report the sculptures are visible in this Street View scene. [1]

I hope they won't vanish like the giant icons in the Apple Infinite Loop campus.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.906084,-118.3786489,3a,75y,2...
Marble is too soft. Granite is better. I've made arrangements for my most important personal data (full name, birth and death dates) to be engraved on a granite slab when I die. This slab will be physically arranged alongside others, one for each family member, showing the relationships among people. This will be set up in a special location set aside for that purpose, outdoors safe from fire and building collapse. I expect the data to still be readable hundreds of years from now.
Future possible headlines:

When Pharmaceutical Companies Used Doctors to Push Opiates

When Pharmaceutical Companies Used Psychiatrists to Push Amphetamines
According to their documentation, DAP is built on-top of Google Analytics, and also IP Anonymization is enabled by default. As a Google Analytics power-user, I happen to know two relevants facts: 1) Geography is inferred from IP Address 2) IP Anonymization happens before geo look-ups.

So, what's probably happening is that some IP address in Graceville happens to end in the octect 0. And a bunch of other high-volume addresses, when you drop their last octect because of IP Anonymization, look like the IP address from Graceville.

As a more general note, the accuracy of geography reports in GA are suspect to begin with (Amazon and Google only agree at the state level about 75% of the time), and with IP Anonymization enabled it takes a substantial nosedive.
I made two webapp:
https://www.alovez.com and https://www.snapfeel.com
about $300~600/month
You can always use Google Takeout so you don't lose access to your files.
I was purchasing them right off Google: Nexus and Pixel phones, very much the same price point as iPhone. I assure you, they were very poorly made (one Nexus had a faulty power button that caused the phone to constantly power cycle) and the software was terribly unstable besides. I suppose I got statistical outliers every single time, but while it's possible it's not likely.
Cloud infrastructure - so basically I have gone right from one end of the scale spectrum (tiny GPS receivers) to the very opposite extreme :D
> The cost of switching is ridiculously higher than the cost of just paying up - it's not a realistic option.

On "the cost of just paying up" side, also tally up the cost of dealing with whatever other shenanigans Google decides to pull later; knowing that you will be equally powerless and option-limited at that time too, and even more entrenched with them and hence with even more to lose at their whim.
I've had good experiences with Mailbox.org - the basic plan supports multiple domains with wildcards. Also, a neat free option is Seznam.cz though I don't have considerable personal experience with the domain feature on it.
Sorry to break it to you, but 1Password is not going to make any changes to suit your requirements. The company behind it is user hostile and quite stubborn. The only advice I can give is to switch from it to something else. There is absolutely no hope that your requirements will be considered. You can even post in their forums and see how they’ll shoot you down.
This was probably inspired more by Philip K. Dick's Paycheck than Office Space. In Paycheck, the protagonist agrees to work on a secret project for two years, after which his memory will be erased.
This may be a hot take, but I think the obesity crisis and that most people are overweight actually increases the prevalence of eating disorders.

People don't know what a genuinely healthy body and diet/fitness regimen look like, and thinness (even extreme, unhealthy thinness) is popularized and praised as a sign of beauty and willpower because so many people are trying to lose weight and so few are trying to gain.
Read above, ulcerative colitis.

Chemicals are just tools.
If this isn't handled right, all of us in the US will have to face the consequences of no longer being the world's reserve currency, and the failure of the petrodollar.

In the long run, that would also mean the end of the American Empire. and all the defense spending that goes with it.

Unlike the Great Depression, this time we don't have the worlds largest supply of oil, the biggest manufacturing base, or anywhere near reasonably competent Governance to ride out the consequences of the ensuing crash.

You'll look back on the plague years, and remember them as the calm before the storm.
Ball Aerospace, who built the optics, announcing that all of the mirror segments have been released from their locked, launch position and are ready for calibration. Hundreds of moving parts, no longer a risk to the observatory! Congratulations!

Next up in the whole unfolding and unpacking thing: the mirror has to be fine-tuned. And then there's some flex at various levels, as the instruments continue to cool down.

So there are motors to bend the mirrors, at a scale relative to the wavelength of the observed light: 100s of nanometers, I think.

Is the mirror going to require periodic mirror adjustment? Or is this a one-time deployment process?

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(I'm used to thinking in terms of adaptive optics, correcting for atmospheric distortion in real time -- but hang on, the JWST is in heavy vacuum of space...)
I like how meta this became and how many internal Slack channels are being discussed on HN
I have tried it, but one of my use cases is sharing passwords, and I couldn’t figure out how to do that well.
There has been a similarly polite disagreement about land between Canada and Denmark, however from the Wikipedia page it looks to have been resolved as of ~2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
Can Quantum Healing Cure Cancer? Here’s What Science Has to Say
CICO != "Neglect Nutrition"
Not really sure in this case, but it’s worth remembering that just as people organise into groups and hierarchies for other things like business and politics, so too do they organise for crime.

While organised crime is demonstrably capable of engineering situations beneficial to their ongoing criminal endeavours… it’s important to remember that the organised crime rings involvement may just be an emergent property of crime being allowed to happen enough that the people involved in it begin to organise.

Of course the situation may devolve from that point but the organising force coming from within before being co-opted is still reflecting a different situation than one where the whole endeavour was started and run by some kind of gang/kingpin/mafia to begin with.
But then you won’t be able to respond to that guy shooting up the mall.
It’s not about efficiency, think how many years a hard drive will last? 3 years. How many years a gold plate will last? thousands of years. Least reactive metal not for a reason lol

Plus if there is a ion blast from a nearby supernova, it’ll erase all electronic storage devices on earth

https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8
Oh yeah, I forgot about Mitch, although I don't see him around that much, sytse and eastdakota I see quite frequently. Also apparently Jeff Lawson is still active(ish)! https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jeffiel

Will be interesting to see if, once stripe goes public Patrick sticks around.
> So is your opinion that such a program is not a good option for any student?

It is extremely hard to draw such broad conclusions. I do think on the whole G&T programs are a net negative- if only because they have drained so many resources from the vast majority of students. I think there is a reasonable middle ground to be had somewhere.

> Why not conclude instead that there should be good advanced programs, not like the ones you've seen?

I have seen quite a few advanced programs and I can attach various adjectives to them, and I think some were objectively good from the standard measure. I think the entire concept is flawed in a fundamental way though. All children will benefit from small class sizes, individualized lesson plans, encouragement to pursue their passions, etc etc. Its heartbreaking that we offer those services primarily to children who are academically exceptional.

> As it is, my child is coming to the conclusion that school is boring/easy and that she is smarter than her classmates

This is certainly a struggle. Do keep in mind that your daughter will take your cues to heart in how you interact with her schooling. Finding the challenge in the mundane is a skill I did not develop until I was much too old to take advantage of it.

> Worst of all, she's realizing that her teachers and principal don't actually care whether she learns anything. IMO, that's worse than the picture you paint.

Thats certainly not a good situation. I wish you the best of luck in addressing it however you deem best. As I concede above, its hard to paint with broad strokes; every child is different and will respond differently to identical situations.
Quite simply, as someone from a place where the term is protected, an Engineer is someone that is licensed by an engineering regulatory body.

The more interesting discussion is what is engineering work. The best definition for engineering to me is: "the application of scientific principles to efficiently solve a unique problem". Which is something that most "software engineers" aren't doing, but by that same definition, most people with traditional engineering degrees aren't doing either, even if they are a licensed.
Peter Thiel Book Recommendations
Hello -

Finding Similar Jobs

1 - keyword search. Take any word on the job description page that seems specifically related to the position and search for that specific word in job websites to see what comes up

2 - linkedin search. Take any word on the job description page that seems specifically related to the position and look it up on linkedin (may require pro account). This may lead you to people doing a similar job but with a different title. Which you can then do more research on.

3 - cold email search. Take the job you were excited about and try to find someone in that group or someone in the company and email them telling them you're interested in that job and would like to talk to someone at the company. Bonus points if you can find them on linkedin or twitter so you can see if they've written anything about it. Then ask them who else is in the field.

4 - [favorite search engine] search. I searched video game historian and found https://gamehistory.org/. Maybe they can be of assistance?

As for being marketable - first you have to figure out what the job entails before you can become interesting to people hiring for that specific job. If you do steps 1-4 above, you should have a set of tools, skills, projects that may be of interest to you that you can do to start a portfolio. Though realistically, it'd probably be better to just straight up ask them what you need to do to get a job there and then do that.
“Canada Post continues to monitor best practices and recommendations”

The fuck they are. Most likely the logic used by whoever is responsible for this decision was:

"OMG we've heard about N95 but then there's KN95 what's the difference? And we've heard something about counterfeit masks, what to do? Instead let's fall back on some random internal document someone wrote 21 months ago on this pesky topic. Yes this will endanger both our frontline workers and our customers by any commonsense standard, and very significantly so. But my ass is covered, so fuck them."
I have a difficult time imagining that Russian speakers prefer the dubbed content they're offered. Most of the Russian dubs I've seen have one male voice actor doing all the characters (or with an additional female voice actor doing all the female characters, if you're lucky) with no attempts at timing, emotion, or intonation. The dub track is played on top of all the other audio, instead of being properly mixed in to replace the original dialogue track.
Look man this is the United States which is a corporatocracy. If me taking off my shirt will increase shareholder or investor value then that will be it. This guy took the brunt but he had some time to chill , play golf, do yoga at a resort and now he is back a changed man . Jack Welch’s of today .
Everyday I regret immigrating to this country with no social safety net , scam of a healthcare and run by grifters, hustlers, slick and cunning where corporate is king . Hey but we are all making money off the stock market.
Crypto.com CEO confirms hundreds of accounts hacked, hedges on other details
elementary school chem: gold is the least reactive metal

and most of the things made by humans that we found about the ancient world are made of gold
I've wanted to explore them for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. Does it deliver to gmail and others ok, or does it go to spam?
is it a dopaminne hit for kids as it stands?
Firebase client libraries silently import and enable Google Analytics in apps [0]. Then your app silently sends a lot of user behavior data to Google [1].

Android apps which use push notifications must use the Firebase Cloud Messaging library. I think many app developers don't realize that adding that library also adds and enables analytics.

For example, adding the `firebase_messaging` module [2] to a Flutter app causes the Android build to import [3] the `com.google.firebase:firebase-bom` Java dep which includes `firebase-analytics` [4]. Once the Java library is included in the build, it starts working automatically [0].

To disable Google Analytics in an app:

* Firebase > Docs > Engage > Configure Analytics Data Collection and Usage [5]

* dart > firebase_analytics > FirebaseAnalytics > setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled method [6]

* Be sure to check the logs to make sure your change took effect. See "Firebase Google Group > Disabling analytics for iOS has no effect?" [7]

[0] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9353532

[1] https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/9234069

[2] https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_messaging

[3] https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/flutterfire/blob/a9562ba...

[4] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.firebase/fireb...

[5] https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/configure-data-co...

[6] https://pub.dev/documentation/firebase_analytics/latest/fire...

[7] https://groups.google.com/g/firebase-talk/c/rved9bIBT0g/m/YN...
>(Are dairy and grains still food groups... I could easily go on)

I don't get it. Are you saying that grain shouldn't be a food group? I think for the purposes of categorizing foods, "starchy staples" is a pretty useful categorization, even if the recommendation to eat 8 servings a day or whatever is misguided.
Mercola and RFK Jr both make a good living from their anti-vax positioning.
Take a look at BitWarden. It is very popular, has a good free tier, the premium plan is $10/year, and the family plan for six users is $3.33/month.
I find that I'm digging the late 70's / early 80's aesthetic for the show. It lends a good bit of "other-worldliness" to the trailer.
I'm still in my first "real" job, almost 6 years later, and while it's not quite as lax as what you describe your comment made me realize that the slow pace is probably a big factor in my own lack of motivation to look for something else. It's awful easy to get comfy.
Starting to pay for something that used to be free for so long is always weird.

But I'd consider it if it was not Google.

I simply don't trust them.

This is not even about their corporate evilness or their bullying market dominance.

I don't trust their engineering values and I don't trust their future business decisions, this is not stable enough to use as a business tool.
Hey! I made that :)
Man the UI of a site like this is bothersome.
Crypto.com CEO admits hundreds of customer accounts were hacked
I was talking about the official Debian project, which is stringent about non-free firmware and patches to the kernel.

Mobian and Manjaro ARM are much more lenient about patching up their kernels in the name of device support (perhaps to a fault, but if the images work...).
Yes, this is why you get those stickers on items from CVS/Walgreens etc., that say not to be sold individually as well as intended for sale at "Store Name" because theft rigs are a thing.
While I agree with you, unfortunately a lot of people saying this do it to cast doubt on vaccines/mRNA/anything they don't like, further cementing the political divide and damaging public trust.

Even if I am a firm believer in individual freedom - including the possibility of self informed individuals to refuse vaccination if they think their individual risk is more important than group immunity, I fear we may see the consequence of a lack of trust in science for the next decades to come (while I'd personally be delighted to get a yearly vaccine against the latest strain of whatever, and get vaccines against things we couldn't envision fighting before mRNA technology, such as EBV or HSV)
I had the privilege of working there for a summer (as an intern at Lucent in 1999).

That was my first office job and between that and occasional childhood visits to my father’s workplace - a giant Bank of Montreal compound in suburban Toronto (https://goo.gl/maps/XFmPDMM5qFgQc4ie9) I just assumed that all offices were grandiose concrete and glass structures with massive sweeping vistas.

How disappointed I was by most of my subsequent corporate office experiences…

Meanwhile the Holmdel complex reopened to the public as Bell Works and is worth a visit if you’re in the area!
If you have a curriculum designed for the average student of IQ 100, then a student with IQ 100 or 110 stuck with that curriculum will not lose as much opportunity than a student with an IQ of 140 would.
> The loss of Youtube purchases; android play purchases, etc. is going to hurt.

If you migrate to a different email provider, you won't lose access to any of your purchases.
I was in the Gifted and Talented Education program in California in elementary school. All I remember about it is that we would occasionally get pulled out of our class to go to the GATE room and work on something else.

Once we came back a few minutes early to find our classroom was locked. Turned out the rest of the class was out on the playground having fun while we were doing busy work about some artist.
For my own part, I've found that a lot of recruiters operate like used-car salespeople. They don't really know what they're selling or care who they're selling it to. They operate by relying on phone-sales skills and trying to control your information to get you where they can talk about this great chance to get in on the ground floor of this faced-paced mission-driven work environment with great benefits and unlimited PTO. While doing their best to avoid telling you the comp.

I've started refusing to take phonecalls from recruiters who cannot give me JD, comp, and remote-friendliness. This basic stuff seems to scare off about 80% of them.
I'd be very suspicious of a claim that even if some compound(s) in tobacco smoke help with ulcerative colitis or any condition, that the clinical recommendation is to take up smoking cigarettes. But I'm open to being proven wrong
In my ideal world, most content sharing and even social media sites should be like this. Good content driving interest instead of gaming the algorithm to get clicks and views would lead to a better ecosystem of information with less noise.

Although I doubt we’ll ever reach that point so I’m wondering if there are other small communities around the web that are just more quality-oriented on the content shared (I just go to niche subreddits and mostly HN)
Absurdle: An Adversarial Variant of Wordle