skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if NASA would be interested in my 1980 Timex Sinclair 1000?
Lung cancer was linked to smoking well before the 1950s, there were people who noticed the link almost half a century before. If you look at a graph of tobacco consumption per capita from 1900 to 1950, the shift away from chewing tobacco and to smoking tobacco easily explains the rise in lung cancer rates.

https://econpapers.repec.org/article/agsuersja/144742.htm

>What dramatically increased consumption was that nicotine levels were intentionally drastically increased, and nicotine was intentionally made more addictive by chemically freeing it from its molecular base. Since the 1950's smokers of national brand cigarettes are literally freebasing nicotine. Along with the massive advertising budgets of Big Tobacco, it was a one-two-three punch that caused the peak of "tobacco" use in the 1960's. Mass production was incidental.

Cigarette consumption increased exponentially from 1900-1950 and then the growth dramatically slows starting around 1950. Clearly the acceleration in growth happened and then reversed well before any changes to cigarette manufacture in 1950.

>For example there are hardly any cases of lung cancer among cannabis smokers, even if we can all agree that smoking anything is not healthy, it is far less lethal to smoke cannabis than it is to smoke, say, Marlboros.

Chewing tobacco causes oral cancer, this link was made all the way back in 1903. Clearly there is something different about tobacco, natural or otherwise.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246763/

>Since the 1950's smokers of national brand cigarettes are literally freebasing nicotine.

According to this study Natural American Spirit cigarettes had far more free-base nicotine than other brands.

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

This study also finds that they have a higher nicotine content

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8075288/

There are precisely zero studies showing that natural cigarettes are less likely to cause lung cancer. The only evidence you have is that lung cancer rates increased after 1950, which is also explained by the dramatic rise in smoking tobacco between 1900 and 1950. "Natural" pre 1950 chewing tobacco was suspected to cause oral cancer in 1903.

"Natural" pre 1950 smoking tobacco was suspected by many to cause lung cancer in the 1930s. In 1939, over a decade before the "chemical revolution" of the 1950s, Franz Hermann Müller, published an epidemiological study linking smoking to lung cancer. In 1943, another larger study by Eberhard Schairer and Eric Schöniger reached the same conclusion.

Clearly smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer, whether they are pre 1950 "natural" style cigarettes or not.
This demo and the comments makes me wish for a button underneath the original link that says "upvote everything here." What an incredible project and what great comments. Thanks everyone.
I think the preferred build system is Vite. Assuming you're looking at https://www.solidjs.com/guides/getting-started, they mention Vite first, and under that is manual setup for webpack/rollup/etc if you don't use the template. I can vouch for Vite being nice and simple for basic apps at least.
>One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.

The other side of that is that with dense living, people need dramatically less energy to begin with. Less energy for heating and cooling, and far less energy to transportation if they live close to wherever they go and can just walk there.
Depends on what kind of contribution you want to make & how much you want to learn, and what skills you already have.

If you wanted to be on the cutting edge as a fusion physicist, and let's imagine you are a bit rusty on calculus & physics, you'd probably be looking at >2yrs remedial math/physics classes at the undergrad level, plus about 6yrs of graduate work. If you're able to get into a big-name program, you could be doing something useful after the first couple years of the graduate program.

If you're a data analyst/engineering or programmer, you could probably get involved in a less direct way (supporting the science team) much faster.

Here's a pretty good list of (primarily US-based) jobs in the fusion sector, including both scientist & other roles. Have a look at the qualifications these roles require.

https://usfusionenergy.org/opportunities
one of the important areas of work is education, and i don't mean STEM, but teaching people how to talk to each other and learn what their community needs, so that they are going to be willing to invest in that area and enable these jobs with actually sufficient pay and acceptable working conditions.
More than 90% of the bots are Pro-Ukrainian, with fewer than 7% pro-Russian
What is stable diffusion and why is it so popular right now?
they got rid of open Bar exams in California pretty recently, too. Need to spend four years working as an apprentice in an attorney's office now.
In Python I have found that a good way to deal with large config files is to use Dataclasses and serialize or deserialize them with OmegaConf.
With accompanying dev logs on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/c/CodeParade
Sync conflicts are pretty common with KeePassXC on Dropbox (iCloud, Google Drive are not viable options on Linux).

I also didn't want to run the Dropbox client just to sync passwords. Paying Bitwarden $10/year made sense to me.
StarFive announces new JH7110 SoC and SBC based on SiFive U74 CPU core[1].

You can experience SiFive's product in the real world.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2
Holy... shit.
Vitalik just replied to this a few days ago https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/156607316409372672...

> Because it's not a circular argument, it's a spiral argument. People with coins at time T secure the transactions at time T+1.

> Spiral arguments and circular arguments sometimes look similar to untrained observers, but they are fundamentally different.
Most doctors I talk to vaguely run around the answer before mumbling that a huge way to cut costs (which will surely happen) is to cut doctors salaries.

Source: once engaged to a doctor who had doctor friends and doctor parents/family.
Do you call them RAM, though?
IMO, It works a lot better coloured on a dark background than black on the off-white used for written books.
Isn't breast cancer the cause that gets the highest amount of donations?
I don't think SQL gets replaced until we move to a different database paradigm. For example, I could imagine a function database model [0] getting paired with a "grammar of graphics" type of metadata for the records to create much more concise query/aggregate declarations, especially where time series are concerned.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_database_model
It’s not really what LA did. LA built suburbs, single-family homes, and no mixed-use development and it was all supported and serviced by auto-only transit. That’s why they have a traffic problem. To see that this is the case you can look to many cities in Europe and how they achieved adequate results without building skyscrapers. These successful cities built single family homes but also apartments, condos, and other living arrangements while also injecting grocery stores, shops, offices, parks, and other amenities into the city and neighborhoods.
Not a single process. Nothing has a single explanation. These are planetary scale effects. There's a lot we don't know and we will never know.
> I was looking forward to reading the stories...

I'm not big into books
Yes maybe it's not quite full production ready yet, but it looks like it's very close, going by for example this https://www.treehugger.com/boston-metal-electrifies-steel-ma...
This would have to be at the language level, surely. Even comparing "case" is filled with weird complexity, comparing equality in this way seems fraught.
Why is this surprising or newsworthy? Putin is the villain.. straight up.

Edit: thx for the drive-by downvote feedback, would appreciate if you'd engage directly if I'm missing something
I at first read "Weird AI" rather than "Weird Al" and it took way too long to figure out my mistake.
Environmentalists will not encourage success:

1. No building nuclear, the only base load that is carbon free.
2. No building the water storage option because of the environmental impact
3. Not allowing for the scale of up of mining necessary to supply the materials for batteries

These three things are why the people who speak about solutions and know are Subject matter experts say: here is what needs to happen, but it will never happen because of environmentalists and how they have corrupted the layperson’s mind to these ideas.

We can look to Europe to see how the environmentalists will doom society.
> you can always read the signal at the top and pass their values to an external function

Which is basically re-inventing a dependency array... except it's not explicit and now I have to look at another function as well.

I don't understand how you are supposed to reason about complex effects with the signals model.

> Random example

Why would I want to complicate things with conditional effects though? It makes it so much harder to debug and reason about.

> the entire array will be diffed each time, whenever any of them change your effect will be re-executed, even if something you don't care about in that moment changed

An array diff on the order of ~10 elements isn't an expensive operation and I can implement conditional logic in React just like you've demonstrated here. What is different about signals in regards to conditional flows?

> if you don't want to call a hook you can just not call it. If you want to nest effects you can do that

I'm not convinced this is desirable. Complex implicit reactive effects seem fragile and difficult to debug and reason about. This is somewhat mitigated with React because of the Rules of Hooks, which gives you expectations about how your code/system should behave but even then people have complained about them being difficult to understand.

This feels like a step backwards in terms of complexity. Without better tooling/observability (E.g. easily trackable effect history, value history, etc that is integrated into the dev env) implicit reactive dataflow based systems feel like they will be way harder to manage.
> Decarbonizing the power grid by 2035 could total $330 billion to $740 billion in additional power system costs, depending on restrictions on new transmission and other infrastructure development. However, there is substantial reduction in petroleum use in transportation and natural gas in buildings and industry by 2035. As a result, up to 130,000 premature deaths are avoided by 2035, which could save between $390 billion to $400 billion.
The NHS's difficulty lies in the simple fact that it is understaffed (https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1633058/general-...) and the staff are underpaid (https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62290577) — leading to unprecedented wait times. This is because the "list prices" that the NHS pays for GP, nurses, and services are not subject to market forces, they are set by the government. The government is currently failing to address the supply loss with little political will to increase list prices (which propagate to the consumer through increased taxes). Brexit's influence is tenuous at best. Switzerland is also not part of the EU and doesn't face this problem. At best, Brexit exacerbated an already existing pricing problem.

Where you're correct is that the difficulty lies in leadership's inability to actually change the prices to attract the supply necessary to reflect the increase in demand — and that's because the Single Provider system is tied to politics rather than market forces. The NHS is a third rail of politics and real reform is extremely difficult given the political buy-in necessary. In contrast, the private sector can (and will) increase prices to overcome demand — we see this happening in Switzerland (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26766626/).

> The system offers a high degree of choice and direct access to all levels of care with virtually no waiting times

So where we may agree to disagree is that the NHS's woes are in fact a very strong example of the greater argument, on net.
Satire seems to be from the Babylon Bee (https://babylonbee.com/) and The Onion (https://www.theonion.com/)
Weirdly enough, Australia pays researchers, including PhDs and post-docs really well.

Must be all that coal money
I'm quick to this sort of judgment myself, so I feel confident advising you that I don't necessarily think the person was trying to be snarky.
India is considered a "cheap and poor" country in many ways. It's GDP is 1/10th that of United States. Even then, India has free health care, and in many states (out of the 30+ states), Govt run healthcare is the best. Woman give birth to babies and walk out paying almost nothing, men break their bones and walk out paying nothing after a month of staying in hospitals and such. Insurance is never heard of or forced to, unless you own a automobile and pays insurance to drive it on roads. No monopoly of any kind.

And there are arguments against all these points, I concur. I just said it for the American folks to know.
I don't. I find it hard to read an article that is essentially an instruction manual for rich people on how to be nice to poor people.
There is no such thing as being “too old in general.”
That's because defeating the webcam proctoring is trivial. The simplest setup is a teensy, allowing two mice to be shown to the system as one input device. A HDMI EDID emulator placed after the GPU and before the splitter for two monitors.

The second person literally doesn't have to be in the same room, and you could even get fancy with a PiKVM for your assistant to be remote.

The proctor cannot distinguish the two mice or monitors, because the computer cannot either. This is a completely unpatchable hole with no good method of detection.
That's true but most engineers outside of civil engineering don't bother with it.
How do you get info on bills for historic procedures? Do patients opt in, or will the hospitals provide that information as part of their cooperation with insurers?
That would only be possible in General Sherman, I guess. Not all sequoias have that great diameter.
Be the friend in the front row ;-)
Walk around the supermarket that you drive to, hopefully not being maimed or maiming someone else on the way. A ludicrous expenditure of energy to avoid physical activity so that you can buy products to help alleviate the symptoms of the energy expenditure and laziness. Can’t walk, or bike, or take the non-existent public transit. That’s for sure.
They are more limited right now although newer models have emerged in the last 3 years.

The split systems are a viable solution, but are aesthetically pretty awful. The point is that these types of retrofits are expensive and the tech is new. Now, we should be pushing lots of carrots to encourage installation. Take out the sticks later as the gas infrastructure starts to become obsolete.

To me the mandate is the problem. In my case, I’ll gladly buy as soon as it’s viable for me. But I have the means to think that way.
Over the past week I’ve read enough on and about Kiwi Farms to conclude that while “doxing” does happen there, as it does on Twitter and other websites, the claims of harassment and SWATing and users driving people to suicide are highly and cynically exaggerated. The evidence simply doesn’t support these claims, particularly the suicides:

https://archive.ph/JPHtM

The main issue seems to be that Kiwi Farms documents the actual, public behavior of many disgusting, pedophilic, embarrassing people on the Internet, some of whom are trans. Some of the people they document and laugh at are also neo-Nazis or alt-right. Some of the Kiwi Farms users are trans.

The willingness of many in news media and at companies like Cloudflare to take these claims of SWATing and harassment at face value with next to no evidence, or in the face of obvious sock-puppet posts to Kiwi Farms that are instantly removed by moderators, has been disheartening. It reminds me how r/againsthatesubreddit mods posted CASM to conservative subreddits to get them banned by site admins. I increasingly understand that the opponents of Kiwi Farms use the exact same tactics they project onto the site: doxing and SWATing Joshua Moon, harassing him and Kiwi Farms, spreading false information about the site’s content and activities. Their goal seems to be wiping evidence of child grooming, illegal drug distribution to minors, and other very bad and embarrassing behavior by their community from the web. They may succeed.

I hope reasonable members of the trans community can distance themselves sufficiently from these unstable activists. I hope people like Keffals have their unsavory activities documented and shared with a wider audience. I hope this mob of unscrupulous activists doesn’t succeed in controlling all speech on the Internet.
you are right, i keep forgetting that people in the US don't have affordable healthcare or free quality education.
Yeah, but you were already scared of contravening the rules and wouldn’t have cheated anyway.

It’s a false equivalency.
They literally just need to built fortnite for VR. Then they'll be set
from my understanding, Slidge does it the style where it effectively logs in as you and sends everything from your account. which is usually frowned upon by Discord but it's how it works, similar to how it works for many matrix bridges.
Why, is there an RFP for doorstops?
With some anecdotal exceptions of teams and persons that are more effective remotely (though I haven’t yet met ones personally), on average remote _team_ work is considerably less productive for the whole range of reasons.

Whether you like it or not, but we people are wired to work better in an organized group with tight physical proximity to each other.

And most of the hi tech companies deal with large multi team projects.

It’s a different story that many managers like waste in-person time on pointless meetings and thus making remote work look better because developers can finally have some focus time and deliver on complex tasks.

So remote team work can definitely be better than poorly organized onsite one.

But be careful to generalize such observations.
64 Gb is a high-end desktop these days. But most desktops aren't high-end, and most PCs these days aren't desktops.
You can get something close to Brave's Speedreader setting on Firefox with an extension [1], the difference is you have to enable it on each site. There doesn't seem to be anything similar for Chromium, probably because it's done differently in each Chromium-based browser. Firefox's reader mode also has dark mode and other text options, which Brave still lacks on desktop even though their iOS browser has those options.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...
>We use Botometer to quantify the extent of bot activity in the dataset by assigning scores to a random sample of accounts
For the most part, it is not the cheaters in these cases demonstrating cleverness; it's those who are selling the means and methods.
Content protection isn’t about preventing any single failure. The actual purpose of most video and audio DRM gets missed by a lot of people. The purpose is for content owners to exert control over device manufacturers and content distribution services. It’s completely irrelevant if anyone can easily go to a torrent site and download your movie. You still get to use the legal system to force device manufacturers and distribution services to do whatever you want them to do in order to be able to play your content.
MSX font:
http://www.ateijelo.com/blog/2016/09/13/making-an-msx-font
Geothermal doesn't really convert small deltas into power. It takes a small delta, then amplifies it using compression/expansion to alter the temperatures into a usable delta. So it is subject to all sorts of inefficiencies as it compresses/expands/moves the medium around.

The real breakthrough would be a machine that can harvest power without a temperature gradient/delta, something that could take the vibration of molecules and convert it directly to electricity. Something like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLTEjm8zLw

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-p...

"The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman's well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado's team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible."
| basically 0% chance

lost credibility here
> I don't see what's the link between his origins and his sins in life. Both can be studied independently regardless of the other.

I agree! Historians who went quiet on this when “evil Columbus” became the dominant interpretation don’t seem to share that same view. Nor do those who downvoted and flagged my post, apparently.
If you're new to 1Password, you may enjoy their service because you won't have the memory/experience of the things that were taken away or "how it used to be."

Now, as for whether one should worry because the company screwed their existing customers once already ... that's personal risk tolerance, I guess

My opinion is that 1Password is the best product out there for the majority of users, because they're pretty good about documenting their formats, have a very good export story, their customer service is mostly good, it's a reasonable price, and their UX absolutely spanks Bitwarden up one side and down the other

But, if a few years from now they rip the ssh-agent out of their Electron apps citing some "well, we decided" reason, or they ban 3rd party clients from using their API because "of sekurity," then no one should be surprised that the scorpion stung them
Nope, those are the primary components of a semantic layer. Most other semantic layer products have three main components: input data sources -- typically SQL queries or table names, configuration -- the semantic layer describing all the things you mention above, relative to the input data sources, and the access layer -- usually a non-SQL API that consumers must use to consume data that has been modeled by the semantic layer. Check out the docs for Cube [1] for an example of this. Cube also has a SQL API, but it's not fully fleshed out yet.

What makes Malloy shine is that all 3 of these things are integrated in the same language, so users don't have to jump between different tools to model and explore their data. You can query/explore data in Malloy, iterate on functions to express your business logic, and immediately view the results. Doing this in something like Cube would require you to: (1) write SQL queries to prototype the function, (2) update the Cube configuration files with your changes, and (3) hit the REST API with a request to view results. In Malloy, it's all just writing and running Malloy queries.

[1]: https://cube.dev/docs/query-format
> intuitively I would think that most writers do not write a book with the explicit intention of the book being translated. The first intended audience is typically readers in the original language.

I don’t think so. I think most writers are only fluent in a very small number of languages and they choose one of those languages to write in.
Who got rid of this requirement? Who voted for getting rid of it? I'm going to google it...
The House of Representatives has voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork, and chicken. Texas Republican Rep. Michael Conaway's Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 passed late Wednesday night by a 300-131 vote. Signed by Barack Obama into law.

It was bipartisan.
The same thing it stands for in "WiFi."
Julia is excellent. There are a lot things with Julia (think multiple dispatch) that once you learn them you can't stop noticing that other languages are doing it wrong