skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like the scaremongering about vapes when there was a few people harmed by them, but the news media left out that the kids were vaping black market marijuana vapes contaminated with vitamin e oils and not legally registered and sold nicotine vapes or safely designed and regulated marijuana vapes.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
By the time the case definition requirement for a link to the market was removed (Jan 18, 2020), nearly 200 cases had been confirmed. This is not including the number of cases that were suspected/clinically diagnosed.

The 174 cases with onset in Dec 2019 considered by Worobey et al. include both confirmed cases and clinically diagnosed cases. Therefore, most, if not all, of these cases had been identified using the criteria that the patients had to either be linked to the market or, if unlinked to the market, have been identified at hospitals near the market or in the neighborhood of the market.

See: https://archive.ph/LVU6z

See also: https://twitter.com/gdemaneuf/status/1500593644428214272
As a current postdoc (genetics) I think postdoc tears are the fuel that academia runs on - as well as those of our significant others and kids.
Thank you for the feedback, I see what you are saying. Definitions were difficult, and hopefully I'm not being too fast and loose with the "product line" categorization of this chart in general. I put these in for visibility sake, and also perhaps because Apple didn't have as much to go in here than expected, but will definitely consider your notes for a future revision, thanks again!
See: Not Invented Here syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here)
On the other hand they act like they owned the street and you have no rights to be there.

I have been annoyed by a film crew filming a netflix series for 2 x 5 days this spring around my house and it was fucking annoying. From the screetching tires and the horrible smell of that saab 900 they had chosen for one of the main character while I was on videocalls, to preventing me from actually leave my house and start my motorbike to do some errands and leave cigarette butts in front of my door.

Not a single warning a few days before so I can accomodate nor a compensation for the annoyance. Additionnally it may not be entirely the fault of tge film set but the police would put signs only the night before and tow all cars still parked in the street the next morning. Nice for the people not in town or who simply don't use their car everyday.
I've observed users of Usenet, Slashdot, HN -- a self selected group of smart people.

I was there when engineers of the 80s/90s poo, poo'ed commercial success of the internet.

I was there when engineers of the 90s poo, poo'ed iPhones (it's just a drive with a phone jack that can make calls)

I was there when engineers of the 00s poo, poo'ed Twitter, Instagram

Yes, I have sufficient data to safely conclude that smart people close their mind pretty early in their life (A curse of intelligence). There is in fact plenty of research around this. That's why you end with Grammar Nazi's, Language Nazi's, Social Media Nazis.

Very few escape the curse of intelligence (why would they? They pretty much get a cushy job and can lead a comfortable life with their blinders on).
Some factor needs to determine what the content of page on wikipedia ends up being. Since "anyone can edit" (credentials are not used as a filter), the content is determined by whoever is most persistent. There are also various processes in place to ensure that content is verifiably correct, and wikipedia largely succeeds in that regard. However, basically everything else, including what information is included, and what spin is put on that information, is decided by the wikipedia editors. They succeed in this regard by being willing to spend the most amount of time camping pages, reverting any change they disagree with, and forming cabals of editors willing to stand up for one another when an editing war emerges.

Given wikipedia's funding, it ought to be possible to pay for credentialed experts to curate the editorial bend of articles in their area of expertise. This would have its own issues, namely of causing a bias towards institutionally favoured interpretations, but I think that would be preferable to the status quo.
> They also dedicated some time on the state of the frameworks session, to put it clearly out there that Objective-C is done and it is time to move on.

Is that the "Platforms State of the Union" session from the first day of WWDC 2022? I'm looking in the Developer app right now and can't find the "frameworks" one you're talking about.
It's funny because that's what I was intending. But then I realized I'm too lazy to mix stuff and just started vaping straight 6mg nicotine base.
If the job pays 3x the median salary to maintain two homes, maybe it will get politicians to consider the needs of the constituents who maintain one home on the median salary.
> And the public do not know what their politicians are investing in.

> Congressmen are supposed to report their trades within 45 days

contradiction

> But that's too long to make a difference in something like the current stock market

I disagree, the strategy an investor deploys could make the difference. Blindly following someone else's trades is likely not a good strategy
> This site is full of harsh criticisms of the USA. Not just of the government but of the citizens themselves.

I think because YC is based in the US and most of the users here are based in the US then harsh criticism of the US (and its people) is acceptable.
The bill has Republican co sponsors.

The title of this thread is pretty misleading as members of both parties have been taking pot shots at each other over this issue for some time now.

Nancy Pelosi in particular has taken quite a bit of heat for years as her husband has made some amazingly well timed trades.
But couldn't you just claim somebody else's name/address (such as your neighbor's) when you go vote? Or is a photo stored on the voter roll?
Funny I failed away from the zone and RDS still doesn't work, connections fail.

Edit: 2 minutes after I post this it starts working.
> Generating a custom PDF is just such a pain. You don't know it before you tried to do it.

I never had any problem generating PDFs by using Ghostscript.
Also, the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg was hired after his pivotal role in drumming up support for the invasion of Iraq, by falsely associating Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnns-new-reporter-natasha-b...
Product looks really cool, well done
Re: weakening of their claim, not only did Worobey et al. have to remove these instances of unscientific language, but they also had to insert a new study limitations section and this clarification in their article:

“However, the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there.”
The PyTorch wheel comes with its own CUDA DLLs, they can’t be shared with other libraries but they won’t be your problem to install that way.
Jinxed for sure. I refuse to deploy resource into us-east-1 unless required by the service.
> So, they can't own a home in a location they represent?

They could always try renting. A lot of people manage to get by doing just that.
Profitable companies that grow 2% y/y are not very attractive for employees.
How would one demonstrate a character who is so powerful that they can "just fucking vanish" without having them do just that?

You could go on to explain that fact or similar, but I think driving home that point any more than Tolkien did just muddies it and makes it more clumsy.
On the bright side, this is certainly a good test for "exactly how resilient are our AWS-based systems to the loss of a single availability zone?"
My default assumption when I read any of the many "middle-earth x is not real world y" statements Tolkien has been provoked to make is that it's either a lie or an honest mistake. I believe that he was perfectly capable of writing about the war he served in while firmly believing that he was not.

The primary function/role I'd ascribe to Bombadil is almost the same same as that of the hobbits: the common man who'd like nothing more than not being bothered with The Great Game. Just with the twist that unlike the hobbits, he actually has the means to make that a reality. Everything else, the age, the powers, the mystery, it's first of all a requirement to make that role possible in Tolkien's world. That it adds depth, mystery, hn frontpage posts, that's all just a nice side effect.
> Social media is what happens if you give everyone a microphone.

Bullshit. Anyone can post, but how much their post actually gets shown to others is dependent on the algorithm. Everyone gets a microphone but the microphone manufacturer gets to decide how loud every microphone is.

Next you'll tell me the Letters to the Editor page in newspapers is a democratic space everyone has a microphone for because anyone can write in.

The real innovation here is being able to make people feel like they're in a "democratic" communication space when it's still a top down media space where what gets heard is controlled centrally.

Usenet, forums, etc were more real democratic spaces since anyone could just post, and it was up to individual readers to decide who to ignore. That said in practice, most successful communities usually had to have moderation to avoid being overrun in spam-- but this is a much more honest, gentle, and transparent sort of control than an algorithm that operates subtly, with the readers not even really realizing what other choices were ignored.
Ghosting after a take home test really bites. Either provide feedback or give an expectation on how long it will take to make a decision. Don't make me do free work and leave me hanging.

But yeah, it does happen. I used to advocate for take home assignments, but now I really don't know what the answer is for directly assessing skill. Leetcode sucks, but take home assignments have their own problems. Maybe the problem with both approaches is that there really is no sort of standardization of practices or measurement of success that I'm aware of.
In other news - staring at the sun causes eye damage.... It's 2022. Smoking is an intelligence test at this point - and those who still do fail.
This is my biggest problem with the state of Apple's developer ecosystem right now. The tooling is just pathetic — I love writing in Swift, UIKit, AppKit and SwiftUI, but it can really feel like the tools are fighting you. They're just not dumping nearly enough effort into making their tooling top-notch.

There's an extremely stark contrast between Xcode and Android Studio any time you need to do refactoring, for example. Xcode's refactoring tools are both limited and very very finnicky (to the point of being basically useless).
Does EdgeDB support full text search queries?
I spent 8 hours on a Saturday the other weekend on a take home assignment and then spent most of Sunday regretting it and angry with myself that I'd let that eat into my weekend so much. The least companies could do is compensate this useless labor.

Interviewing also has been putting me into a spot where I'm starting to wonder if changing professions entirely may be less work.

I wish this profession would grow up. The hazing requirements of every interview cycle are so childish and immature and so perpetually stuck in "college bro culture". If we want a test before jobs, let's make it a standardized test you only need to take once in your career like a real profession would have. So many interviewers would appreciate the principal of DRY and yet as an industry we can't abstract away this menial repetitivity that other industries solved centuries ago?
No problem. Wage garnishment is interesting by the way - some states don’t allow it for judgements like this.

It really makes it almost impossible to collect judgements in those states for a determined debtor.
It's far easier and faster to use essentially pre-made easily-tileable templates for buildings than it is to make anything custom. A huge chunk of the US is built this way.

It's because those who need the buildings want them cheaply, and aren't considering an aesthetic factor.
Rust and Kotlin are much more advanced than Swift when it comes to writing full stack, deployable, multi platform, and performant applications...
This looks great! I will definitely be trying it out.

I haven't seen this asked or answered anywhere and am curious - how do you guys plan to make this profitable? Charging for more "advanced" features? Ads?

I already have the Duolingo owl chasing after me for money (and more time).
here's another point i forgot to bring up earlier that i'm just gonna hang off of here...

getting caught up in a side means you can't pick and choose from the whole menu of ideas out in the world. it means that if you're against abortion, you must be for guns (or vice versa), lest you suffer cognitive dissonance and social anxiety. that's exactly how political parties, pundits, the media, and partisans of all stripes get twisted up into contradictory positions, but can never extricate themselves, because they'd have to acknowledge a modicum of reasonableness coming from "the other side". it's pretty silly to get so tied up in a tribal affiliation that you shut down your own thinking that way.

this is actually the topic of the linked paper (i.e., culturally motivated reasoning), which was hardly discussed at all in these comments.
That's an incredibly charitable interpretation in favour of Stripe. The aggrieved party has been emailing their support repeatedly only when this gained traction on both Reddit and Hackernews are they actually replying. How is this acceptable?

I don't see how you can assume bad faith on the user. Have you ever dealt with corporations? If so, you would know that they often lie and downplay things that make them look bad.
I am not a beginner myself but I would expect it would actually be a much larger pain point for a beginner. If they don't know where to start or what they need to do they may get overwhelmed by some 2000 word essay totally irrelevant to the process. Or get tripped up by extra advanced options listed in there. Just need the ingredients and the steps and maybe links to other instructions. Like if a step is "Dice the onions", link over to a page about dicing.
"Research" comes from lobbyists, who don't charge money but have other expectations about compensation.
In general yes. Specifically in this short span of time, the expectations violated due to inflation have spooked a lot of companies and triggered hiring freezes.

https://news.yahoo.com/tesla-apple-microsoft-peloton-all-of-...
They don't have it 24/7. That's part of the answer.

But that kind of phrasing leaves a big gap.

Do they offer it during some hours? Which hours? Or do they offer it never?

There's a big difference between "call and chat are only extended beyond business hours for certain issues" and "call and chat are only ever for certain issues".

The response here could mean either.
Which tobacco company is not also in the vape business?
lung.org is the tell
In terms of correlation at least, yes. Between the fall and the USSR and when social media presence became the norm, people were largely apolitical. Now it's all about owning the libs/cons.
No, it doesn't not mean that.

Only the images being sent, from a child's phone, with the optional feature turned on, are scanned and when approved for that message, blurred. There is nothing about clandestinely reporting your images to anyone.

Just read the article.
Basically, the shape of the protein determines how it interacts with other things. So knowing the structure enables better prediction of how the pathways it is involved in work and how other things (say, potential drugs) would affect that pathway.
Big Tobacco owns the vape companies. New smokers use vapes many times more than all other forms of smoking combined. Trading a slightly higher churn for a 5-6x more uptick in customers is a great trade. Especially if they churn to another product you own.
Can someone explain why this part is necessary?

>7. Cash the check and dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice. (You're agreeing to not sue them again for the exact same violation.)
A coincidence is a good starting point for discovering things. A natural next step would be to figure out how to dissect trained networks and turn them into proper models.
An online game, Eve Online, let's you set a fee for anyone not in your contacts to message you, with a default fee. You get some of it and "the government" (the game) gets the rest. The first time you message someone, you get prompted to pay the fee or discard your message.

I want this in real life. Set a default of a $1 or so. Your carrier gets $0.25, you get $0.75. You can adjust the fee to $0 or $1000. Carrier gets 25%.
That doesn’t explain why nobody has heard of him for thousands and thousands of years, and yet the Hobbits stray right into his path Willy-nilly
> As pointed out by another commenter the NBER has never failed to declare a recession after two consecutive quarters of GDP reduction.

That isn't 100% accurate. There is 1 example from 1947 where we had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP, but positive jobs, positive industrial production and positive consumer spending and NBER doesn't consider it a recession.

2001 was the opposite. It was called a recession without consecutive 2 quarters of negative GDP growth. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession#/media/F...
As a person with great means, he also has a great obligation to do right by our planet. In an era with unprecedented telepresence, this behavior shouldn't be necessary.
That sounds like 4chan

well, not really, because technically, hackernews works that way too. the difference between 4chan and HN is, who the people are that participate. and what topics they are discussing. even 4chan has different topics and each topic is moderated. it's not a free-for-all. the difference is that on 4chan almost any topic and tone is welcome, whereas on HN it is not. the same would be true for any democratic discourse where we want to address the problems of our community.

any person should have an equal voice, as long as that voice contributes to the discussion of the problem at hand. moderation of off-topic or inappropriate contributions still needs to happen.

This belief has been undermined in a very deep way in the US, to the point we can fairly clearly say that it is gone.

not just in the US but pretty much world wide.

I am deeply worried about what this means in the future, and am skeptical that there are procedural or technical solutions

there are a few things that i believe are clearly a problem, and by changing those, democracy could be improved.

the strongest one is partisan politics, which causes groups to fight with each other instead of letting those interested in solving a problem work on it together.

another is the personality cult that is created by candidates around elections. if instead we have write-in nominations only, without allowing any kind of promotion of particular individuals, we would be able to elect those people that the majority feels, actually represent them.

that of course doesn't scale, so these elections would only happen at a local level. at regional and national levels the elections would be done by electorates from amongst themselves. so, in order to become president, someone would have to be elected locally into the regional electorate, and then be chosen by the regional electorate and later the national electorate all the way to the top.

and while we are at it, let's not have a single president but a committee of elected leaders who can only enact decisions if the majority of them agree. like the supreme court.
Depends what it’s stuck doing, but you might ctrl-c it and later manually unlock the state file (by carefully coordinating with colleagues and deleting the dynamo DB lock object if you’re using the s3 backend) when the outage is over.
> I would love to be able to run CodeGen models locally and fast, ideally fast enough that they can be used for interactive tasks like code completion. [...] GPT-J is a very popular model and a lot of work has been put into making fast implementations, like the one in FasterTransformers. [...] Unfortunately, these don't work with CodeGen. Even though the two are 99.9% identical, they're just different enough that you can't naively transfer over the CodeGen weights and run them in a GPT-J implementation.
Automating DevOps Tasks Using Process Mining
I don't see any phone number there.
Yeah when it comes to detailed policy decisions, voters have a huge information disparity. This is why a solid trust in media is so critical to democracy: otherwise the situation devolves into a contest of persuasive personality.
Haha literally had this same thought. us-east-2 is our default region for most stuff and so far that's been good. I think this is the first AWS downtime in last couple years that hit our systems directly
I live in Canadian city, I know some of the officials for my city who manage the budgeting and scheduling for film crews in our city. I also know some of the music and film production studios that are hired out for these shoots. We are also one of the primary cities for filming in Canada.

I know for a fact that we subsidize film production into our city. Us tax payers literally pay money to the film companies to subsidize their costs. They do not pay us or our city. The idea is that this would promote more use of local businesses. It does not usually work out that way though.

A bunch of investigative reporting has been done in our local news that indicates that the majority of the companies filming here do not even hire local businesses, even going as far as to have their food frozen and flown in with their gear because they can treat it as a subsidized cost.

In short, they frequently do not help our community, they actively tie up our streets, don't employ local businesses, and exploit our tax system to make a profit on their shoots. Never underestimate corporate greed and its ability to subvert tax laws for their own gain.

To make matters worse, from the folks I know who run local film, recording, catering, etc, they indicate that they have to aggressively cut their prices down and make almost no profit because the corporations hiring them are unscrupulous in negotiation. If they don't cave to their demands, they corporation walks away and brings in their own stuff from outside the province/Canada and writes it off as further subsidized costs.
The AWS status board, posted elsewhere in the comments, seems to think this is an AZ outage, not a regional one.

Edit: although, one of our vendors that uses AWS has said that they think ELB registration is impacted (but I don't recall if that's regional?) and R53 is impacted (which is supposed to be global, IIRC). Dunno how much truth there is to it as we don't use AWS directly.
"the only logical answer I come up to"

says everything.
Genuinely curious if this is a joke or not. In a thread about arguments, I honestly cannot tell.
Shameless plug of my post on the one-year experience with EdgeDB:
https://divan.dev/posts/edgedb/
It's partially generational. Kids don't pick up cigarettes anymore, they vape, so those who came of age after vape was common never smoked.

The older generation, those who were adults in 2010 or thereabouts, all used to smoke. We rapidly adopted vaping for QoL improvements:
No more smelling like an ashtray, massively less costs, improved lung capacity, and as a side affect, quitting became massively easier.

Every cigarette user I know that switched to vaping has in turn found it easy to taper nicotine and quit. Vaping doesn't have the same addictive power as cigarettes. I was a 10 year smoker with multiple failed attempts at quitting, vaped for two years, then just stopped.

As for popcorn lung, this was widely known and discussed within the vaping community at the time, basically within a year you could not even purchase the affected flavorings without being very intentional.