skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For unknown reasons, the FAQ doesn't say whether they've ever tested that all the vitamins and hormones (melatonin) make it intact and unadulterated, in a form the body can work with even though they have not been through the digestive system, to the blood stream.

They just say (over and over again) that it is heated to only 120 degrees Celsius. That perhaps will avoid turning the substances into plastics, but even that fairly low temperature is surely enough to chemically alter some, especially more complex, molecules. In fact, that's the exact problem with "popcorn lung" which does come up occasionally on the site.

It says there are no oils, but with the plant extracts, they are all essential oils. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but more care needs to be taken in these claims.

Have their been any clinical studies of the efficacy of vaporized vitamins and hormones?

Were there any long term tests on its effects to the lungs. Merely omitting the "popcorn lung" chemical is not the only thing to concern yourself with (although it is ultra important, as we've seen historically with counterfeit vapes back when vapes were new). What are the effects of each of the ingredients showing up in vapour form, in the lungs where they absolutely normally would not appear? Do they have the ability to impact lung function down the road? What if a person has a lung infection... from minor cold to Covid. Does bathing the invading bacteria or viral matter in what is essentially food affect the severity of the symptoms? (OTOH some of the mint formulations might actually be helpful there... there is a history of vaping mint extracts for that purpose).

I'm not being cynical, and I'm not nay-saying the product. On the outset, it seems like a reasonable idea for smokers who are at that last stage of nicotine addiction. I just think they've perhaps glossed over some really important questions.
Oh stop it.
Ah wonderful ! This is so helpful !

A couple ideas

1) So first of all, I’m assuming you are already proactive about organizing play dates ? If you can invite another kid to your house at least once a week after school to play, do homework and have dinner together, I think that would be great. Maybe the other parent would reciprocate ! And sleepover on weekends !

2) Minecraft Club! Can you set up a Minecraft club at your house ? Invite the classmagrsx over after school every Friday to play Minecraft and have pizza:)

3) Arduino robotics club : if you don’t have one you can start one at your house.

4)social/bonding after-school activities : soccer and other team sports, theater, board games, cheerleading anything collaborative/team-oriented , not so much ballet/ski/individualistic stuff

5) date night babysitting co-op. Can you get another couple with a kid your child’s age to babysit for him while you go on a date night and then you do the same for them ? You could even do it w four couples and everyone gets a night out while the kids get a party :)

Let me know how it goes and if you want tips on setting this up. Try one idea at a time so you don’t get overwhelmed
> For BTC (or any coin) to have any value, it needs actual economic transactions to be conducted in it. If there aren't any, its value is smoke-and-mirrors; its not real.

Not quite - if someone, anyone, wants something that someone else has, they're prepared to buy it. That's the price. You might say tulips are valueless, but that wasn't the case when people wanted them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

I'm sure everyone has said "I wouldn't pay X for Y", but someone has paid X for Y. X is the price.

As much as many on HN like to hate on crypto, people want to buy it, and people also want to sell it. That means there's a market and therefore a value to it for those people.
I should not have to opt out. GitHub should have to respect my license. I already said they can use my code, as long as they keep an attribution intact (via a BSD license, for example)

GitHub is taking my code and ignoring the license. I don’t understand why anyone would think that is ok.
A core tenant of any MBA program is to inculcate a duty to shareholders vs. employees. Your duty of leadership extends as far as it takes to optimize organizational outputs for quarterly goals that move share price up.
You act like this was completely up to the Democrats. Please point to a time in history when codifying Roe with legislation would have passed the Senate.
You are oversimplifying. Generally speaking, most of the work of SCOTUS is reigning in the Executive because of overzealous regulators. The US regulatory framework is theoretically designed to be based in law, made by the legislature, not the whims of unelected bureaucracy.

Congress delegating it’s power is suspect at best, and likely unconstitutional entirely (something something, War Powers Act). Congress created the EPA through the power of the purse, but it’s operated by the Executive, and therefore is not and should not be empowered to unilaterally create regulations with the force of law. Making law is Congress’ job.
That's not true. All Christians must pay the church tax. You can't opt out without leaving the Church.
Many of those unelected bureaucrats are experts in their fields due to their ability to focus for entire careers.
Yeah what does NOT lying get them? Almost nothing. Laid off folks would still be upset about being laid off. If they lie they get a few more weeks of work from these employees.

It sucks but I wouldnt hold my breath on this ever changing. If things don't look good at your company interview elsewhere. Dont trust leadership because they will say what they have to to keep the business going, not to keep you employed.
As much as these things can be objectively measured, that's certainly correct. But the trend is not a good one, and the US is considered a 'flawed democracy' rather than a full one according to this: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/02/09/a-new-lo...
Mitch McConnell broke the Senate, and through that, the Judiciary.
>>I really don't like having this unelected councils of wizards who get wield god-like "authority"

but you are OK with the 'unelected council of wizards' at the EPA wielding their god-like authority instead?
The constitution isn't partisan though.
In this case, as I understand it, the EPA was declaring they had authority to enforce some new rules by interpreting where congress wrote "may" as "must". Whether you agree with the EPA's motives or not, it should concern everyone that un-elected bureaucrats have been increasingly inventing or hallucinating the language of their mandates to turn them into whatever they wanted, whenever it suits them, and this was a much needed rebuke of that behavior.
> The interesting thing is whether hot water EVER freezes faster.

Here’s an example [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMNSvpB9dY
That's not really how it works. If Congress wants the executive branch to have leeway then they need to explicitly grant it.
Trump is a tool. He didn't do this. He doesn't have the brain power to do this. This was the CNP, the Federalist Society, the Koch bruhs, etc. They've worked on this for decades. DECADES.
For a law to be passed in the US, it must be approved by the House, the Senate, and the President. For a law to be repealed in the US, the repeal must also be approved by the House, the Senate, and the President. So there will often be situations where it matters what the current law is - whenever these three components of the system do not agree, so that the current law will not be changed. In such a situation, it is not supposed to be the case that the President (in control of the executive branch) can unilaterally decide that the current law is whatever they want it to be.
The address registration form has this field: https://allaboutberlin.com/docs/anmeldung

Everyone must fill this form soon after moving to Germany. It's very difficult to proceed without registering one's address.
Agreed. They use the word "problematic". Any time I see someone using that word, I close the tab instantly to avoid the brain damage that would result from me reading the rest of the piece. The word is meaningless and cowardly. Say what you think. Quit tap dancing around the conversation.
I see No-Code topic, I upvote !
We're big fans of this subject in our team, we actually wrote an article about it and we'd love your comments:
https://zenkit.com/en/blog/what-is-no-code-a-guide/
Ok but does it make enough lift for a flying saucer
The key word here is "sufficient consensus." Your judgement of sufficiency is a personal opinion.

I could, for example, define "sufficient consensus" as requiring that all laws require a 90% supermajority in the Senate. Or I could reduce this to 50% of the Senate. Alternatively I could reform Congress so that lawmaking requires voting totals representing 50% of the population.

Each of these is one possible version of "sufficient consensus", and still none of them actually matches the version we actually have. What is clear is that the sclerotic nature of today's Congress is problematic, and it's doing a great deal to undermine faith in our democratic system.
It seems that just having a headline that asks a question is not good enough any more, at least on HN, as most "readers" appear to assume the headline is a tacit endorsement of the subject of the question.
that is a very popular perspective, which reinforces exactly what I said about it being too complicated for people.

Congress outsourced the decision to the judicial branch, the judicial branch said its for the elected representatives, aka Congress, to decide. Barring any supremacy from Congress, state laws and the consensus mechanisms of those states are the only laws available.

Congress outsourced emissions decision to the executive branch, the judicial branch said its for the elected representatives, aka Congress, to decide. Barring any supremacy from Congress, state laws and the consensus mechanisms of those states are the only laws available.
I think it can make sense temporarily trade profitability for growth, especially if you are using debt/funding to take advantage of certain circumstances. But it certainly isn't sustainable, and the purpose of the growth should be to increase profitability in the not too distant future.
One part of what you say is largely true: fear motivates in the short term more than many other techniques.
> online people are muffled or too loud or just hard to understand

Crappy (i.e. cheap) microphones and wireless connections. I use a Sennheiser EPOS headset - wired USB connection and a microphone with a passive background noise rejection - and it's all but perfect. The quality is high, and it was under $100.

Non-headset mics, even shotgun mics, are going to be sensitive to background noise. That's just how they are. They have a lot of rejection around them, but it's not 0. Headset mics put the mic close enough to your mouth that rejecting other noise becomes a lot simpler.

Oh, and Google et.al. try too hard sometimes to "fix" audio that they'll screw a decent audio setup up by "fixing" the gain dynamically.
> gross in a democracy.

It is happening at the state level too. In Wisconsin, the gerrymandered (google it for background on Wisconsin) legislature has chosen to not conduct hearings on governor appointees, with the result that holdovers from prior administrations can remain in office indefinitely.

""(T)he expiration of Prehn's term on the DNR Board does not create a vacancy. Prehn lawfully retains his position on the DNR Board as a holdover," wrote Chief Justice Annette Ziegler for the majority. "Therefore, the Governor cannot make a provisional appointment to replace Prehn." [1]

[1] https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-former-hea...
Not everyone thinks so: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/03/the-suprem...
Retrospective on Developing Terrateam in a Monorepo
The "lifelong bureaucrats" are typically (but not always, see the CDC) policy and subject matter experts.

Chevron deference's main purpose is to free Congress from writing exhaustive laws. If the executive branch does something Congress doesn't like, they can change the law and make it more specific. Of course Congress does almost nothing, so when you say it has to take legislative action to regulate something, what you're effectively doing is deregulating it.

This decision follows more from the Court where they pick and choose what they doom in this way based on their personal politics, contrary to precedent and reliance interests.

We shouldn't think too hard about what this Court does; it's a nakedly ideological power grab that's the endgame of a generation long effort by Conservatives to control the US through the court as they slide further and further into permanent minority status. Future generations will look back on this era as one of infamy.
Interesting point. I don't have anything interesting to say, but maybe you should argue with this other guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31933417
So to recap: the SCOTUS has ruled that the agency established and authorized by Congress to regulate environmental protection does not have the authority to regulate environmental protection.

Did I get that right?
Since I like to build custom electronics using JLCPCB, I went on there and looked for RISC-V chips. I found the ESP32-C3 and a dozen or so Chinese chips that seemed to only have Chinese datasheets. It seems that things are still pretty immature in RISC-V adoption. I will be getting a ESP32-C3 dev board to tinker with at least.
How it is interpreted is.
Used Jira at the last company. Use YouTrack now. YouTrack is better, hands down. Much faster UI, more keyboardable, better integrated into the IDE, integrating it with CI and mailboxes is easy.

Caveats: new job is small so it's a small instance. JetBrain's own YT instance is pretty fast though, so I guess it can scale well. Also, we don't use the new KB/wiki feature so can't comment on that. It's probably got less features than Confluence. We don't use the scrum features.

Biggest caveat - I speak as a developer. One of the biggest problems with Jira was the culture that surrounds it. Clueless PMs who had never written software in their life kept creating fixed workflows in which you couldn't transition tickets to arbitrary states (for no apparent reason, there seemed to be no benefit to these rules). So we were constantly being slowed down by the need to get the handful of people with Jira access to edit the workflows and add more transitions, which was pure makework, especially as even figuring out who the admins were was remarkably complicated. PMs also had a weird Jira fetish, they were like, if it's not in Jira it doesn't exist. So they forced the project to change from a more normal SW dev project early on to mandating that every commit had a ticket associated, and that ticket had to be scheduled into a sprint etc. It was just rank stupidity. Want to do a quick refactoring, as part of your current task? Roll it all into one giant commit because otherwise you'll need to file a ticket. New place doesn't work like that. YouTrack is used more simply, like a todo list. Git logs are the source of truth.
I'm fully pro-abortion but I have to admit Roe's legal argument was a big stretch at best. Even RBG admitted so. I wish they'd have left it alone but moreso I wish congress made any attempt in 50 years to codify it into law.
You don't post on HN for just a pat on the back. Nothing wrong with people responding with respectful criticism even if they are wrong so long as they put some thought into it. People can feel a certain way and keep it to themselves or they can express their opinion and someone else can correct them or if they are correct others are corrected by them.
The Senate is way out of balance from the power it originally had in 1776.

Delaware was the smallest of the 13 states with a population of 59K. That's 2.36% of the 2.5M total in 1776. There were 26 Senators so each one had about 7.7% voting power.

Today, South Dakota has a population of 905K out of 330M or 0.274% of the population. There are 100 Senators so each has about 2% voting power.

A Senator from South Dakota today represents 1/10 the population that a Senator from Delaware did in 1776. If influence scaled with the same distribution it did in 1776, a South Dakota Senator should only have about 0.77% voting power, but today they have 2%. Population distribution is more widely varied today which creates much more power for lower population states than when in the country was formed.
Yet somehow we also managed to appoint SC judges without the senate stalling nominations to prevent the president from being able to appoint them.

Let's not pretend that the current situation represents anything like "normal", and further, that we don't all recognize that bad-faith actions by the Republican party are responsible.
I agree that we can't ask congress to write the entire federal code, but congress could pass a law which literally says:

"It is within the power of the EPA to regulate carbon emissions"

and leave the rest to the bureaucrats, and that would have been enough. I don't think that's an unreasonable ask.
I agree with "congress cannot delegate it's powers" to a certain extent.

Negative example: The BATF has a splendid history of literally doing nothing except putting it's critics behind bars, while solving 0 actual crime and preventing any sort of mass tradgedies.

Positive example: The FAA has done an incredible job making air-travel safer than car travel. I have a feeling that a lot of the higher-ups are former engineers and have been able to put politics and red/blue crap aside for a common mission.

Mixed example: The FCC has done a great job on spectrum allocation. They've done a shitty job when on broadband and content regulation, with it quickly becoming politicalized and more concern about red/blue.

Good example: The FDA has done a great job in regulating the industry for their namesake: food and drugs. We have unprecedented levels of safety in both despite not having a complete knowledge of how all drugs work (biology is just complex with a lot of hidden downstream after-effects).

Poor example: The NRC has pretty much just said "No" to fucking everything in nuclear. No progress has been made. We should have 3-5 reactors (on average) in every state. Instead we're still running 50 year old designs (not _necessarily bad_ but not great either) when we could have Generation III+ with passive failure modes.

That brings me to the EPA. I think they've done a lot of good: energy efficiency ultimately benefits the consumer in nearly every case. I have an air conditioner that kicks out a splendid 58degree air stream in the summer heat and extraordinarily low energy consumption levels. The EPA has successfully sued countless corporations and created superfund sights when they just dump industrial waste without a plan to handle it.

Unfortunately, as red/blue politics get involved in an agency, everyone loses. And the finger pointing begins. As such, the only "way out" may be to say delegate it to Congress. I'm not sure where we go from here.
Thanks.

That is a very clear explanation. It seems like that got caught up in the whole "no interest other than acquisition debt is deductible" rule change.

Also, I know you were enumerating items, not advocating for their return. I see the change as good, and didn't know if there is a countervailing point of view explaining why interest on equity debt should be deductible (possibly from the entity that educated you on the matter).
> Every culture has a right to protect its values.

What "value" that would be? Oppressing gay people?!

You have the moral high ground in this debate, how's that even fathomable?!
The filthy content was an aside. The bigger concern is the mechanisms built within the app that make it addictive and the abundant research we’ve seen on how this is adversely impacting mental health in teens, leading to depression, anxiety, self-mutilation and suicide.
Passive IEMs are better, ANC is always weaker and more selective. I was once using Etymotic IEM and frantically searched for the source of a loud wind noise that hit my ears upon removing the earphones, only to realize it's just an air conditioner on the ceiling. That don't happen with ANC headphones, partly due to technology and partly for product safety concerns.
I'm saying they have massively different risk profiles.

If you want a different example that might be more obvious, "put it all on a single number on a roulette spin" and "invest in a big stock index" both have unknown rewards but they're entirely different ballparks too. (And no, those aren't supposed to map 1:1 to the coin scenario.)
This gets discussed often whenever there's a post about reddit, discord, slack blah blah

See related recent discussion earlier this month:

Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31681234
The majority of people don’t want to allow abortions at 36 weeks, but they also don’t want abortions completely banned.

So there is a democratic debate to be had about where in the middle the non extreme two sides could meet. (In Europe there is no debate about abortion and most countries allow it to 12 weeks).

Better to have a debate and both sides compromise than some court deciding on one of the most extreme views. The Supreme Court didn’t ban abortion, they did however allow it to 36 weeks for decades.

What they did do last week is say: hey guys, it’s a federal democracy, why don’t you fucking debate it and legislate it somehow where both sides can agree, as is normal with divisive issues in a democracy
> it appears to undercut the ability for any executive agency to make a rule, under them claim that congress cannot delegate its powers.

this had been a goal for a long time, since even before goldwater... its called "deconstruction of the administrative state" (steve bannons phrase)
Unreal's Blueprints handle what you need for a scripting language and then some. If you spend a few months learning C++ so that this is no longer an obstacle, then start using Unreal to do a project, you'll discover that it'll be a very long time before you actually need to use your C++ skills. It's true C++ is easier to express certain things in a smaller amount of screen real estate.

But Blueprints are pretty darn amazing. They have subclasses, inheritance, composition, interfaces, public and private variables, functions, enums, events, user-defined structs, network replication, server-only functions, broadcast functions, user interface interaction. You might say to yourself "Yes, but I have a table of 5000 datapoints in Excel I need to work with"; you can put those into a datatable and work with them just fine from Blueprints. You can use the tools to visually edit curves of data, for example for tweaking the effectiveness of some gameplay system like armor or experience or energy consumption. You can write GPU shaders in Blueprints, too, astonishingly easily.
Please do equate them. Neither stays at all within the realm of truth and science. I can't believe anyone still genuinely thinks either party does in the year 2022.
Interesting point. I don't have any comment, but it looks like this guy disagrees with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31933490
GitHub is a business and currently provides free storage and a pretty nice interface to it.

It’s easy to say “our rights are being stripped away” but the view that businesses should operate like non profits or government services with the common good in mind is ludicrous!