skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be a non-issue right now. See the study is from 2015 and even before back then, the vaping 'community' was well aware of diacetyl and most if not all of eliquid companies have discontinued using it.

Usually the flavors containing diacetyl were the ones making the flavor more 'buttery' or freshly baked-like, so avoiding them altogether was something a lot of people were doing.

As a former vaper, if you're a vaper, please try using unflavored eliquid. Pretty much PG + VG + nicotine. You get used to it real quick, it's not that bad, you can easily tell when the coil goes bad (and the coil lasts way WAY longer) and you don't have to deal with any 'mistery' flavor ingredient. This is what ultimately got me off vaping, as I stopped being excited about the flavor and about the vice which ended up becoming a hobby. Unflavored vaping demoted vaping to what smoking used to be for me. A mundane bland meh habit which I eventually stopped. Not to say it's worse than cigarettes. It's better than cigarettes but nothing beats not inhaling foreign substances.
Human bias at its finest - e.g. social proof. It's the classic "you don't get fired for hiring IBM" notion. If you were a CIO and chose Retool but it flopped, no one could say "what the hell was the CIO thinking by choosing a company that could go under tomorrow".
FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
all the Lago's api, what we call backend is open source, you can check it out there https://github.com/getlago/lago
Federal prosecutors want to keep key details about the planning and execution of the March 2021 raid at U.S. Private Vaults out of the public's sight.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...
The training set, regulatory compliance hurdles and implications are a bit more complicated than teaching your computer how to play a perfect information game or even chucking text at it until it's reasonably competent at chat.
>In any case, vaping is UNQUESTIONABLY better than smoking cigarettes.

Why does this matter though? Both are still bad for your body and we shouldn't be encouraging them.
> However the most important things you need to stage New York are actually smoke generators. Lots and lost of smoke generators. There were several big ones on the street, the garbage cans had ones, even the aforementioned ATM had its very own smoke machine. Don't really know if that is relevant to the plot or whether ATMs in New York run on steam.

Steam is a utility in NYC, from co-generation. It's used to provide heat.

At least when I was younger, steam was also a utility in Boston. I used to see it escape from "Boston Steam" manholes. Not sure if it's still a utility there or not, though.
Developers: “Cumbersome processes are contributing to burnout.”

Clueless VP: “It’s remote that’s at fault! If everyone were just in the same location, and we could do team-building exercises then everything would be fine!”

Not sure what the author of the article was thinking putting those two statements next to each other.
They're being protected from the abuse of their nude image by online contacts.
David Lynch directing The Lord of the Rings would be a fascinating experiment. Lynch would make the experience of the Ring-bearer, in particular, sublime.
Most economists still don’t think the economy meets the formal definition of a recession, which is based on a broader set of indicators including measures of income, spending and employment. The G.D.P. data itself will also be revised several times in the months ahead.

It only means that the recovery is losing steam.
Author or operator. Ransomware as a service (RaaS) is the thing these days.
So the problem is hard until it isn't? Nice analysis...
A neutral answer: he's a popular young conservative Jewish-American political pundit who gained fame for debates at college campuses. He gained notoriety for his snappy rhetorical "takedowns" of (mostly left-leaning) university students during open-forum guest lectures he frequently hosts on college campuses.

My personal take: his "takedowns" are pretty fun entertainment, but doesn't really have anything to do with which political position is correct or not. A lot of contemporary political ideas have a "nuanced, difficult to explain, strong" version, and a "flawed, weak, easy to explain" version. For most people, when asked to explain their political views, have trouble formulating the strongest version of their argument. Many people believe what they believe purely on emotional or tribal grounds rather than based on the facts of the matter. Ben's personal style is to find the weak version of an argument, and to (correctly) point out the obvious flaws in it. Of course, just because X argument for Y is fallacious, doesn't make Y false.
I am overemployed. That is, I work three full time remote jobs.

At all three orgs, there are developers rapidly burning out and the biggest problem is that despite major organizational crises, ranging from mass layoffs to mass turnover and the inability to fill half the seats on any given team (especially with team leads and senior talent) to enormous projects that have crept up in scope from 8 people to 60, there has been no acknowledgement by management that anything is even wrong.

At the company with layoffs, we are still working on product roadmaps from before, but now entire teams responsible for certain product dependencies are gone.

At the company that cannot fill half the seats, there are no truly senior devs and only two juniors and one intermediate/senior (me and I am not willing to fill a senior role). Our skip manager literally said "assume we have a senior dev or team lead for planning." They have not been able to hire one for 6 months now.

At the company with the project exploding in scope, it can take several weeks to get a meeting with key people as there are just so many wires crossing.

Not even a "we understand that X is not working" from management. Just them repeating goals and deadlines in all orgs.
Man, that thread is sobering. I knew things were bad, but to see a whole thread of people agreeing that things are worse than ever does not make me hopeful.
When you suggest that it's just lipstick on a pig, I think you're getting at the heart of much contemporary marketing.
> this process has to be a net positive or it's just unsustainable

Or it has to achieve the bare minimum: filling positions with anyone who makes it through the sieve.
Can you elaborate on that? Do you mean rewriting existing classes as structs so they go on the stack?
Just curious, would you feature an absolute trainwreck of a setup like [0] if the owner submitted it or do you intend on keeping it strictly upper middle class?

[0]: https://bnn-news.com/wp-content/gallery/offices/computer-roo...
EdgeDB 2.0
> As we head into election season, a lot of us are going to get unsolicited text messages like this. You too can sue for them!

Can you elaborate? Every source I've seen says that politicians have exempted themselves from the spam laws. e.g. a random google result: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/202...

> That's because the National Do Not Call Registry does not apply to political text messages.

If you know a way around this, please spill the beans!
Most of these preparations appear to contain benzoic acid as well, which is also added to a lot of prepared foods to increase shelf life. Inhaling benzoic acid doesn't sound like a very good idea, but otherwise you might be inhaling bacteria and fungal spores, or you'd have to keep the vape refrigerated, or have a sterile preparation production line which is quite expensive.

Lungs just aren't a very good means of drug delivery, no matter what the drug is.
Especially when they're shooting on one side of a street near dusk (quite common for the good light) in downtown... yea, it's easy to assume you can walk on the other side of the street before realizing that the crew has shut down the entire block since they're capturing shots across the open street and all those randos walking on the other side of the street are extras.

That said, they'll often just let you wander across as long as you're not wearing distracting clothing.
So is this a case of Nirvana code that allowed it to be exploited? I don't see flash loans as being inherently bad, as tweets and articles play it up to be.

I imagine professional/sovereign exploitation teams are looking for contracts that can be exploited, and have tooling and workflow processes in place to test exploits before deploying on a live blockchain network.

Cheers
This article itself is undermining democracy. It reads like an ad for now censorship.

The Atlantic is owned mostly by "philanthropist" Laurene Powell Jobs since 2017. Why is it that philanthropists are always buying up media companies? It couldn't possibly be to promote their own ideologies. They always happen to push for censorship also.

Billionaires buying up all media companies and censoring debate is a far bigger threat to democracy than some people chatting online.
If a (former) tenured and now emeritus professor doesn't count as an intellectual, I'm not sure who would. I have found he seems to have started falling for his own hype recently though. He was fascinating up until a few years ago, and even on the things I disagreed with him on he was worth listening to, but is turning into a parody of himself.
Many reps do rent in DC, sometimes in frat-house-like conditions with other reps.[1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/ind...
us-east-2 customer here, having a variety of "strange" issues including inability to reach an RDS database, other users in my firm having VPN reconnect trouble to that region.
It would be much more effective to guarantee that the salary of Congresspeople was a fixed multiple of the minimum wage than to attempt to force Congresspeople to live on minimum wage (or anything similar).

Even as it stands, just relying on their Congressional salary, it can be difficult for Congresspeople to maintain a residence in their district and one in DC—which is a fairly expensive real estate market—which is effectively a requirement of their position. Within some fairly clear limits, increasing the salary paid to those in Congress would have a tendency to decrease their reliance on lobbying money, rather than increase their appetite for it.
I think one they’re talking about 3 month long QA cycles for every deployment.
do you really think that two selected quotes represent the totality of a person's thinking, and how they lived their complete lives? provocative writing is a rhetorical device to bring attention to a grave issue. it's like cursing. it says "i'm serious here!".

through experience douglass realized violence doesn't work, something many of us have to learn for ourselves as we grow up. he ultimately realized that to achieve abolition, he needed to outreason the slavers, not outgun them, which is what he's principally known for--his reasoned positions on (anti-)slavery.
How would you solve it with very little computing resources? I've yet to see any reasonable solution.
LaunchDarkly had a major outage in the past month so maybe they are feeling the pressure.
The euro had just crashed through parity against the dollar, a level once almost unthinkable

Unthinkable? A parity? Once upon a time, it was much lower than that.

The EUR/USD reached a record low of 0.8231 in October 2000.
Ask HN: Why are delivery apps so expensive?
It was $20 for me to get a MCdonalds Big mac meal delivery. 2.2 miles away
Is this not accurate? I would legitimately like to know if it’s not the case.
A structure is bascially another tool for producing hypotheses. In my case, I often use structures to predict effects of genetic lesions. If your protein has a clearly defined active site, you can get a rough sense of where on the enzyme that active site is relative to other mutations. Often residues that are distant in sequence end up right next to each other in the folded structure, so certain residues can have unexpected roles.

It gives a picture of the enzyme as a machine, and lets you look at specific parts and say “this residue is probably doing this job in the whole system”.
I do! I think inflation is usually a real economy problem that has a bad quote about being a monetary phenomenon associated with it (which has confused a generation of lay people).

The implication of the economist doesn’t even really make sense - both Argentinas trade and budget deficits aren’t that big vs. the rest of the world, but their inflation and level of government intervention into the real economy sure is.

In general, my philosophy on economics is to notice what’s different about a country than just accepting the “easy” answer; a <10% of GDP deficit doesn’t phase me (Major trading partner Brazil is similar in both ways), but a government willing to renationalize a company it sold on the open market sure does!
Because many smokers, probably in the millions, have successfully used vapes to quit smoking.

I would guess all this is propaganda to try to ban vapes but keep cigarettes legal. UK's NHS actually promotes vaping as a smoking cessation as policy.

Here's the NHS page on e-cigarettes. You don't see the constant fear mongering you get from the US. I wonder why.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/using-e-cigarettes...

There is a financial incentive in the US for the government to do this based on the tobacco master settlement agreement in which the tobacco companies give the states money based on smoking rates. Lower smoking rates, less money in the budgets. Ban the most successful smoking cessation tool, get more money when people go back to smoking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...

Edit: Source: 19% of people who used vapes to quit smoking still weren't smoking after a year. This compares to 9% for other cessation products. It's the most successful cessation product by more than double.

https://www.webmd.com/connect-to-care/vaping/vaping-smoking-...

In 2019, there were approximately 50.6 million smokers, so it would be pretty easy to say at least a million people quit smoking using vapes with a 19% success rate.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33211681/

In 2022, there are nearly 40 million smokers, so in 3 years, over 10 million people quit. If just 10% of those who quit used vapes, that's a million.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/index.htm

Unfortunately for me, I'm one of the people who quit smoking using Juul. As soon as they are banned, I will most likely go back to smoking. I wish that wasn't the case, but it probably will be. Bad for me, bad for you, great for state budgets.
My biggest source of burnout of late is the MS Power Platform. Being under pressure to deliver with half baked tools due to "political demands" made the vast majority of us consider other options.

Today, we learned that we will no longer be using much of the "Power" Platform...but we have all wasted a year of our lives "trying".

Now that we are done, I look forward to getting back into the gym before using "traditional" tooling that actually works.

In the future I will be more careful with the projects I work on - with a preference for mature technologies. Erlang, Java, RDMS, Rust etc. sure. Latest shiny from tech company where people hate their jobs - NO WAY. They will bring us all down.
Doesn't the :has() selector already cause unbounded lookahead?
I fundamentally don't understand how low unemployment is a counterclaim against economic recession.

This is like saying sure you can't buy as much bread, but at least you are working longer.

The fact that more people are working to produce less than before describes an economy in decline.

What am I missing here?
MMT isn't against using GDP as a metric for the economy

The biggest actual policy disagreement between MMT and mainstream economics is how to achieve full employment. Mainstream economics primarily reaches for monetary policy (tweaking the interest rate), MMT primarily reaches for fiscal policy (create/spend money to give everyone a job).

I don't feel particularly strongly about one side versus the other, but we end up doing both anyways and our current model of changing the interest rate (i.e. recent rate hikes) out of lockstep with corresponding fiscal spending (i.e. Build Back Better) is inefficient when the two need to be kept in balance.
Did you mean to reply to me here?

I was trying to clear up your confusion that staff (and other expenses) were paid out of a congresspersons $150,000 salary (which is also a bit higher than that btw).
I’m learning Swift and SwiftUI recently, and man, as a Flutter dev I’m super overwhelmed by how many features Swift has compared to Dart… it has too many ways to do things (not necessarily bad ofc)
Can't believe I didn't know this exists, just installed the Chrome version, thanks!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...
AGI ruin scenarios are likely (and disjunctive)
Yes - our service is down right now from connectivity issues (can’t reach RDS)
By that definition (the more political polarization, the more political engagement and better democracic health), wouldn't the healthiest the U.S. has ever been is during the Civil War? Does that not imply that the healthiest democracy is one that's in civil war? That just doesn't pass the smell test.
The thread scares me, as it confirms some of my own feelings for the past year or so. To see it written down by strangers is just.. eerie
Same. Our EC2 instances can't connect RDS and just got 500 errors on the dashboard.
From a technical perspective, I think it would be hard to correctly identify who to sue. Phone numbers can be spoofed, gotten through a 3rd party like Twilio, or come from email to SMS gateways (if those still exist).

For texts, you can probably parse out a link they want you to click, but I would expect them to be using a WHOIS guard.

Phone calls are even worse, because you'd have to interact with the rep enough to get info on who's making the call.

If it starts filing bogus lawsuits, whoever's running it may end up paying a whole bunch of attorney's fees to people defending themselves, get banned from filing lawsuits, and be more annoying to the general populace than the spammers are. I'd rather get a bunch of spam calls than deal with a single unfounded lawsuit.
Was that the first search term you tried? ;-)
I won't presume to speak for the owner of this newsletter, but I do receive it, and I'd just say: "I don't want to see messy spaces." The whole point of seeing other people's workspaces is for inspiration – what are ways I could organize my desk, what are some neat things I might want to add, what tech is out there I could purchase to make me like my workspace better. My workspace sometimes look messy, but I always clean up before people come over, so it's kinda the same thing here? I'm sure lots of these folks let their workspaces look lived-in normally, but that's not what we're here for.
Car colors certainly have gotten more bland:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car...
Embedding paid content from one domain into another (i.e authz is needed to prove rights to access), it's common to store the session data in a cookie for the embedded site, at which point it's a third party cookie.

More concretely my particular case is to do with learning management systems which commonly use LTI to embed external content (outside of the US at least). That external content is hosted by some other system (can be another LMS) which usually store their session information in a cookie just because that's how it's always been done - The solution is to not use cookies, it's not needed, each resources can re-auth over the launch protocol (LTI) anyway, and for individual frames to be able to continue navigation/access - the session info can live anywhere else, in the URL for old fashioned navigation, or as part of the initial request body if subsequent requests are done over AJAX.
Ugh. Without Javascript, this is a blank page. Yet there's no apparent need for JS on the entire site.
First understand why it isn't one, before you seek to change it.
AWS acknowledged the issue
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v013n01_...
I don't know shit about San Francisco (which I assume you're talking about here), but I'm very glad that Baltimore isn't knocking down all of our 1890s brick-and-masonry rowhome shells to put up more 4+1 apartment complexes.
Yeah vaping is lit. It's funny how we are 100x more healthy than our grandparents and they are trying to encourage us to do bad things like them like eat white bread, pretemd COVID doesn't exist, and smoke cigarettes instead of vape.
30 years ago a third party led the polls during the summer [1]. It all exploded after that, but I think that it shows that there is a possibility for a third to have an actual chance, although all the stars need to align. 30 years is a long time ago, but I think that the media landscape now is considerably easier for a third party than it was then (easier direct access to voters, national news intake is spread over more sources), and the current assumed candidates (biden & trump) unpopularity in the next presidential election seem to favor the possibility of a third party.

It might not be a probability, but I think it's a possibility.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/11/us/the-1992-campaign-on-t...
That "I am no man" thing is annoying because it's a loose thread on the tapestry of Middle-Earth. It's obviously a Macbeth reference:

"Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman. Shall e'er have power upon thee."

In Macbeth that turns out to be a man who was a Caesarean birth but Tolkein thought that was a cheap solution to the problem. A hobbit and a woman, now we're talking.

And if you think about that you realize the ents and huorn were a reference too:

"[he] shall never vanquished be until the Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him"

It turns out that Tolkein confirmed that the huorn and the ents came from his disappointment as a child that the trees in Macbeth were just guys wearing branches.

Once you know that it's hard to look at the books in the same way. You have to compare Denethor's role as unfaithful steward with the stewards in Macbeth and pretty soon you're just running a comparative literature class in your head.

Who's Wormtongue supposed to be? Is he a reference to King Lear's daughters? Is the scene where he tries to marry Eowyn a reference to Richard III?

Aragorn's speech is awfully Henry V, and the return of the Army of the Dead is awfully like the WWI short-story of the Angels of Mons where Henry's army returned to the aid of the British line.

Searching for tropes is a normal part of reading literature but normally you're just looking for parallels. I wish he hadn't included an actual reference to Macbeth to force the issue.
Renting may be a new experience for them. And with such a huge bump in salary I think they can take the hit.

After all it is positioning real estate as investments that contribute to its unaffordability.
Its just the grind. Show up everyday, do the same thing, build Widget X or Widget Y. Sit in meetings to discuss mundane points. Sit there on mute while people argue and are openly rude to each other. Do it for 2 years and then get a new job to move up the ladder and get a higher salary. Remote makes it even worse as you have zero real work relationships. Meet with your director once a week to discuss progress with his little black zoom box with his name on it in white font.

Every day... For decades...

At the end what have built? What can I show my kids? There is no bridge the I made with my hands, no building, nothing permanent. Whatever I made has been cast aside in the next redesign.
Seeing issues with EC2 APIs and instance connections in us-east-2.
I saw that as well on the FTC's website [0]. Curious if you can actually prevent them.

[0] https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/national-do-not-call-regis...