skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the response. I probably won't be able to reply, but I guess i'll be wasting my time typing a response. Sorry if I dont put as much effort in; sourcing etc.

>A couple of data points. It looks like 20% is only in women - in men, it's 9%. Second, the ratio of smokers:nonsmokers can be at least partially explained by the number of smokers decreasing. Third, it's not clear whether this is a real change, or if it's a data anomaly.

This is something I didn't fully understand and had to research. Why does it disproportionately affecting black people and women more? Nobody really explains it but the answer is known.

Yes absolutely, as # of smokers decreases we would expect it to increase. Totally, but the correlation between decrease in tobacco usage and increase in lung cancer inverted. I think that's why when we saw an increase in 2006ish nobody responded like they have been responding in the last 5 or so years.

>Personally, I would be very careful about the confidence with which I express this perspective. It might be true, but it's not at all clear that it is, so it's not clear there is a mystery.

I hear your threat and yes I'm flagged and such.

>“It is well-documented that approximately 20% of lung cancer cases that occur in women in the U.S. and 9% of cases in men, are diagnosed in never-smokers,”

I believe what you are referencing is:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764546/

This study was done in 2006 publishing in 2007. Yes absolutely. 20% vs 9% was certainly a thing in around this time. Those numbers are US centric. Your followup point that fewer smokers exist and therefore more proportion would be expected to trend upwards no doubt and it did.

>"To a great extent, this is a function of straightforward math... Fewer people smoke today than in previous decades... because there are fewer smokers in the population, out of every 100 lung cancer patients, fewer will therefore be smokers. And that means more of them will be never-smokers."

This is totally valid and so is diesel exhaust as others mentioned. VW diesel scandal was also in this period as a painful confounder but at the same time I actually discount VW being of significant factor because how many people really drove TDIs?

>A 2017 study of 12,103 lung cancer patients in three representative U.S. hospitals found that never-smokers were 8% of the total from 1990 to 1995 but 14.9% from 2011 to 2013. The authors ruled out statistical anomalies and concluded that “the actual incidence of lung cancer in never smokers is increasing.” Another study that same year, of 2,170 patients in the U.K., found an even larger increase: The proportion of lung cancer patients who were never-smokers rose from 13% in 2008 to 28% in 2014.

From your link ^^^

About the time of that 2017 study from your article was when oncologists started freaking out by the shift in the new data.

It has been getting worse each year. It's way too fast to be just a shift in statistics. It's also not a mystery neither. Obviously they spent the last ~5 years figuring it out.
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Would that also apply to Truth Social? Should HN not be allowed to ban me?

Do we want to establish a “Department of Social Media Enforcement?” Should “Christian Mingles” not be allowed to ban people that it wants?
The actual order books are magnitude less than the stated market cap. For instance, somebody who is a billionaire on paper with mostly crypto holdings, cannot cash out most of its wealth.

When prices drop, the order books run into liquidity issues. It tells me on thing though, that most people have shunned crypto and that most of the noise we see is people holding crypto spamming to get somebody to take the otherside of their trade so they can liquidate their holdings...ironically to fiat which was the pinnacle of their narrative.
I'm still following Ars Technica on Facebook, but it's only clickbait these days. I feel like I remember it being a quality publication at some point in the past ... What happened?
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What is this "something simpler"?

I have to manage like half a dozen docker images. K8s seems like a massive overkill, but managing by hand is rather error-prone.
Like someone else said, reddit is still good for certain things, but that is entirely up to the subreddit. Bigger subreddits tend to suck, usually the smaller ones are good, and deteriorate when popular. A revent example of this is r/fuckcars, which has just become a meme subreddit now, but started off as a place with some good discussion.

So, basically, with reddit it's very much luck. I still use r/analog and r/londoncycling, but most of the other ones I accept are just meme subs.

Forums are great if you can find a good one for your purpose.

I use https://www.lfgss.com/ for cycling in and around london.

I also follow https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ for money tips in the UK.

Controversial, but I think forums are better than subreddits, as there is less chance that you will get an influx of people who are not really interested in your stuff. If something hits r/all, you might get a lot of people controbuting to your sub that probably shouldn't be.

Finally, 4chan isn't half bad on some boards... /mu/ is kinda fun, as is /fit/
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Research indicates blurred vision happens but is rare.

I thought LH/FSH is usually increased using HCG injections? Is there an oral route for LH//FSH? One of the benefits of clomiphene is it’s orally administered so no complex refrigeration / injectable requirements.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31216250/
Thanks! That's really interesting.

You could mitigate some of the issues and get JSONs "strictness as a feature" by passing the document through e.g. `jq . $file` as a CI step, but I don't think that'd resolve the 1e2 issue. TBH I didn't know you could write numbers in JSON like that, so I imagine it'd be an issue that doesn't come up often. But it's disappointing that it wouldn't just work.
> The US Government rarely, if ever, seems to be more efficient than the private market.

The governments purpose isn't to make money. The military, police, IRS, USPS, all serve different purposes, some of them make money, some don't.

> Somehow those socialized things need to be paid for
We already pay more for healthcare than any other nation; does it matter whether that goes thru the middleman of insurance or not?

>where do the taxes come from in a way that does not affect the final cost of the product

Prevention beats a cure - do you want healthy workers that are able to get preventative treatment and save money in the long run? Dental health is routinely neglected but a large indicator of economic status. Not only do healthy workers extract less from the healthcare system, they generate more in revenue.

...and you can also take money from other sources? I'm not sure why healthcare means some explosive bomb dropped out of nowhere. We're already paying for this, and it ISN'T efficient because of the necessary fiduciary incentives.

>how is that implemented in a manner that is compatible with the overall US capitalistic economy?

How is it such a special and weird case that isn't already covered with other socialized services that already exist within the US economy?
Has a CEO ever been hired to do this? I just don't see a business ever saying don't invest in us because there are better alternatives.
I get (because you said so below) that you were just joking, but even if you didn't mean to cast aspersion, it sort of still takes that form. Better not to do that on someone's job posting.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31583129.
You read HN at stop lights? How long are those stops???
> I really miss the aesthetics of late 90s websites

You should check this out:

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Here's the first page I got on a roll of the "surprise me" button just now:

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In reality most people aren't very savvy though. Are you advocating they shouldn't invest in basic things like an S&P 500 fund or a "target date" fund or whatever? That kind of investment is almost a necessity in the US.

I'd agree they shouldn't get into CDS and other esoteric instruments, and I also would put crypto investments in the 'esoteric' bucket.
I'm intrigued and am going to "do my own research". Thanks for the lead!
A good reason why it cannot be web based, you need to scan the source video to be useful, so you know which tracks are available (some subtitles aren't supported by ffmpeg). If you merge two files the fps or resolution might not be compatible. I think this calls more for a (or rather multiple) desktop apps.
I had a similar experience with less stellar product history but solid computer science and current practice. Many of those advertising were associated with phones+web .. those people are actively dismissive of previous software development, and leaned heavily on the whiteboard interrogation and control session. What a negative.. meanwhile, I found out that a skilled co-worker on the net, with excellent English, better modern C++ than me, and domain knowledge, was working for about $27/hour USD out of Poland and London. After covid-19, I discovered some abusive contracting companies who were treating young males very harshly and inflating their credentials.

I really did not expect this, I got negative seniority and quick NO from people with money.
Yes, residential usage is a ridiculous consumer of water. Let's have a discussion about *subsidizing* the production of almonds.

In a desert.

All this focus on consumer water use is emotional hand waving and total BS.
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> When they're not grid backed, which is what we're discussing here

Are we? Or is it just your deliberate narrowing of the topic for convenience?

> After that, someone inevitably insists that we can just cover the planet in transmission wires.

Ah, yes, "Someone" a.k.a. Straw Man.

> solar plants don't work. Ivanpah has wanted to shut down

Ivanpah is solar thermal. The main thing making it less competitive is cost reduction in medium- and large-scale PV installations, and [citation needed] for them wanting to shut down.

> Another thing nobody seems to understand is flywheel smoothing

Another thing nobody cares about in this context because it's not essential. Most large solar projects are turning to molten salt (not batteries BTW) for storage. In such a system, there's no need for flywheel smoothing.

> You remember how the one at Level3 cut a notch through the highway

No. Do you remember the thousands of oil spills, fires, and other adverse events associated with fossil fuels, or the nuclear-power-plant disasters? No technology is perfectly safe. It's not sufficient to cherry-pick an example or two. To have any kind of point here, you'd have to show that overall solar is less safe than alternatives.

> driven by an amateur who's googling shit.

Totally uncalled for, against the guidelines, and also more descriptive of the people pimping nuclear. That's the very epitome of "works great on paper" google-research, ignoring still-unsolved problems with older designs and hand-waving over anticipated problems with as-yet-untried ones.

> Just look at the real world evidence.

Please take your own advice.
I agree: For me, the primary focus of exercise is high intesity to trigger huge dopamine releases ("runner's high"). It is my legal drug of choice. Plus, I try to visualise past high quality athletic performances to get my mind in the right place. Running / cycling / swimming (tri-) helps me the most, but I heard that people can also trigger huge dopamine releases through strength training -- hitting new max weights is very inspiring to them.
>> Clearly I'm implying drinking alcohol and smoking weed.

all right, it seems though that your writing abilities were compromised by consuming alcohol and drugs. take care!
That's not entirely true.

The FDA has a "new clinical investigation" program that is supposed to reward people running clinical trials. If you collect data showing efficacy of a new use of a previously-approved drug, you can "earn" the exclusive right to market it for that condition. Of course, someone has to actually do it...and the numbers don't always pan out.
Anything on rails above ground is unreliable in geographies that have ice or leaves, though.
when you're required to financially qualify for something based on net worth/assets, primary residences are almost always explicitly excluded.

eg to qualify as an accredited investor.

https://www.sec.gov/education/capitalraising/building-blocks...

not to mention for commercial purposes such as private wealth management
And these are farmers who have, in the last few years, sometimes EXPANDED their land holdings 20% when their groundwater was already nearly gone. If you drive north from L.A. into farm country, you see billboard after another posted along the highway bitching about how the water shortage is politicans' fault.

L.A. consumers are punished with an offensive rate scam. Water (and electricity) usage are billed for at tiered rates, which isn't surprising. If you use a lot of either one at any given time, you may cross the threshold into a higher tier. Water in higher tiers costs more, which is fine.

The BS is that if you have a spike in usage (a leak, even) that puts you in a higher tier on ONE bill, LADWP will wait until the following January and then rip you off with higher rates and "access fees" for a FULL YEAR. You'll still be punished up to two years after a one-time spike in use.

Then of course we have corrupt and potentially disastrous legislation like SB 9 & 10, which outlaws single-family zoning and allows the construction of up to 10 units where a single house formerly stood... with no review or approval required. Because it's at the state level, it supersedes any local attempt to stop it (which it specifically outlaws anyway). This giveaway to developers is, of course, done with vague lies about "helping the homeless" or "affordable" housing and how it's our responsibility to make room for new people. WTF! We're in an epic drought with insufficient resources for the people already here, and you want to roll out the welcome mat?

And in doing so, these laws encourage more paving-over of ground and the cutting down of what few trees exist in SoCal cities. Meanwhile, in dying malls, huge edifices like Macy's sit boarded up. Politicians and ignorant zealots push "high density," but attack areas that are already residential instead of fostering the conversion of disused COMMERCIAL property into residences... where the environment has already taken the hit for the density.

Unreal.
In effect, yes, it does require provincial approval.

For one, healthcare is purely the purview of the province. The federal government has no ability to force provinces to treat drug use as a healthcare issue.

Secondly, enforcement of laws in BC is a mix of both provincial and federal and this gives the provincial government leeway. In BC, the RCMP is responsible for both provincial and federal enforcement. One of the earlier marijuana legalization efforts in British Columbia, which was supported by mayors and previous provincial ministers, hinged on enforcement. The plan was effectively to order law enforcement to not enforce marijuana laws. The province itself couldn't strike the law, but they could effectively not comply. Admittedly this is a grey area, which theoretically would require the courts to sort out, but in practice it shows some viability of the approach.

In general, Canada's governments skews heavily towards provinces rather than federal (unlike the USA which has a very big federal government, most Canadian gov employees are provincial). Provinces have had the upper hand since Confederation and have been unwilling to give up much power. As such, I doubt how much approval the province needs from the federal for an action like this.
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Tell HN: Lack of job salary information wastes everyone's time
Another month, another "who's hiring".

Most entries do not include salary info. So we go to glassdoor (or somewhere better?). Even still, maybe we don't find any or reliable/believable info.

Now we as candidates have to decide: do we take the time to start the conversation with the company, only to find out after some time and effort that the salary is way below our current appropriate range?

And on the company side, they have to sift through tons of intro emails and possibly resumes to decide whom to respond to.

What is the time cost of the involved parties on both sides? (Hint: it's a lot.)

So stop wasting everyone's time. State your "typical" salary number. Maybe it's a bit higher or lower than what a candidate might secure, but at least it will help with initial alignment.
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I think that it doesn't work in Monterey
Does anyone actually believe in that? Surely most space debris doesn't form a stable orbit, but falls back to earth after a few collisions.
I grew up with one parent in the burbs and the other in the boonies, and today I live in a city and I'll never go back to anywhere that isn't eminently walkable. I don't value space, I value proximity to lots of people. I'm happy that WFH allows people who value the opposite to vacate the cities that make them miserable in order to free up room for people who crave density.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31583039.

This is the second time I had to do this to one of your posts in this thread. Please don't post like this to hiring threads in the future. Also, can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? You've done that quite a bit and we're hoping for a somewhat different sort of forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You got it exactly right. Every time I use an external service, there is times when its down. Every time its an internal service, there are zero times its down outside of maintenance.

Its why I continue to favor running everything in house (preferably on-prem too),