skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There has been a bizarre crusade against vaping from public health and medical authorities for the last decade.

Going from smoking to vaping has a very clear, positive benefit.

There's concern that kids who wouldn't have taken up smoking are taking up vaping, though, which is fairly reasonable. In a perfect world, vaping might be a prescription smoking cessation tool, but in a realistic one it's gonna be impossible to keep it out of non-smokers hands.
What really irritates me about IntelliJ is the terminal (on Windows). It is slow as molasses (can be down to two characters per second), and sometimes typing occurs not at the prompt, but a few lines above. How can something like a terminal be that broken? And there were a ton of issue reports in the past, so I don't even bother to write another issue report.

I finally found that disabling "Typeahead" in Advanced Settings seems to help quite a bit so I will stick with IntelliJ, because I quite like it aside from the terminal. But I was ready to jump ship a short while ago (because of the performance of the terminal, can you even imagine?).
I realize it's not designed for mobile, but I couldn't figure out how to close the pictures after opening. Ended up leaving after the clouds.
zip bombs are files that when unzipped expand to enormous sizes. I'm not sure if OP put one to be downloaded for the offender to kill their disk space, or if you could stream one hoping the client browser/scraper would attempt to decompress and crash for memory or disk outages?

That's my read on it anyway.
https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys

Apparently the use of hjkl has to do with the fact that on some keyboards, those WERE the arrow keys!
To understand the true cost of health care premiums in the us talk to those having to carry cobra or secure insurance outside their employment. When I worked there, and talking to others that worked there, the employee paid roughly 20% and the company paid the rest. These were large(r) companies so I look to others for what smaller companies or part-time employers pay or provide. As this article points out somewhat verbosely, health insurance balances the lower tax rates in the us. Social security taxes and benefits are also higher in the us than, say, Canada which also balances the aggregate deduction percentage.
imagine comparing someones mental wellbeing to a programming language
The tooling is there to convert existing CUDA code into a form that runs on AMD GPUs as well: https://docs.amd.com/en-US/bundle/HIPify-Reference-Guide-v5.... They have drop-in replacements for most Nvidia-specific libraries like cuDNN, too.

So, while the documentation still doesn't make it trivial to get started, the software side definitely seems to have improved in recent years.
What would be the process for choosing a non-arbitrary cut-off?
The ‘Smart’ Party Never Learns, if your views are by definition enlightened
Having looked at multiple articles before posting this one, your point is definitely a major advantage mentioned consistently. The technique of adding water repeatedly is how I’ve always done oolong tea and gotten a very similar experience.

I should mention I went down this rabbit hole due to the World Cup attention, but have been drinking mate for years and years.
That pretty much sums up my point. Thanks for writing this, and sorry for the downvotes. That is HN. Just accept it, and create a new throwaway...
Why use the word propaganda? Makes your comment really stand out as flame bait.
https://archive.ph/M9EM1
the same applies when the device is off, or i left it at home. unless there is a law that requires me to carry a functioning, powered device to receive emergency alerts at all times, there is no reason why a device should be required to receive alerts just because it is capable of receiving them. if i turn of alerts on my device, then it's no different from a device that doesn't have the capability to receive alerts.
Vim is available on a lot of Windows machines through WSL. I agree this would not be my go-to editor on Windows though.
Yeah tbh I think they just gave up on it. It's running on autopilot these days with very little being done to turn it back into an actual community instead of a place where all you see is dead or dying low effort moneygrabs.
If you're looking foward the lowest fees it's Adyen or crypto via Binance Pay.

In addition, I'm working on solution (https://rainex.io/) which can combine differen payment providers to recieve and collect peyments in one solution.
There are many payment options you can use, which are convenient for your customers to use, so I think it's appropriate for this post.
This felt so, so fresh. Like the internet in the 90s... Thanks for the link!
I think it makes sense for people already addicted. If they can't handle dropping smoking and solutions like nicotine patches are not enough, they're at risk of going broke buying more and more expensive illegally imported cigarettes. Essentially this says "we've already allowed you to mess up your body so we're not going to make your addition illegal".
heh, i went to Argentina for work once.. (it was just pre covid) and I was shocked and amazed at their consumption of this stuff... not only do they pour copious amounts of artificial sweeteners into the cups but they share the cup and straw around the office!

I shudder to think of them doing that during covid...
Oh yeah overwriting the partition table can be "fun". Once wrote the partition table of a floppy to my hard drive. That was when I was still running DOS. Used a disk hex editor (I think it was part of pctools) to change it back to the correct values.
You don’t get to choose those things if you don’t choose what the radio does. Swapping SIMs around doesn’t accomplish that. The hardware and software that the baseband has entirely within the confines of its own black box is enough to track you.
> All the new Microsoft apps are written in Electron.

Is this why the new calculator app takes over 5 seconds to show up on screen?
I was going to say the same, but vaping and other nicotine replacement is still legal.

It’s basically trying to push people to “less harmful” forms of nicotine.

But yeah, no doubt there will be a black market for real cigarettes, especially when they are still legal for people over a certain age.
Somehow this feels like the logical conclusion of capitalism/big tech/AI: optimize human interaction into some soulless algorithm but pretend to be human enough to fool the masses. This somehow feels pretty dystopian, and I hope this will trigger a counter reaction where we start to demand actual interaction with an autonomous human being (that has empathy, can provide context, and perhaps even has authority to make actual decisions).

What if the majority of people just told Brenda: "I wish to speak to a human, please call me at ####."

I guess the main factor is if the market is a sellers or a buyers market; who's time is more valuable, mine or the real estate agent
Rackspace does have other revenue streams, and this will be a wakeup call for their remaining customers because there's no reason to expect that a gross management failure like this will be isolated to one unit.

This did make the HN front page – that's where I learned of it – but it wasn't really a surprise to most of us. This is what private equity does and it's what was predicted back in 2016. I didn't see anyone with high expectations for the deal, but I did hear about several people migrating away as soon as the Apollo news broke.
I am mostly indifferent to cocaine, meth, meph, but I wouldn‘t do them anymore as I consider them highly harmful drugs. G is nice, if I stumble over it. Poppers are nice too, but they make you go blind.

Yet the occasional ecstasy hits I actively do are, as sad as it sounds, the highlights of my life, even knowing it literally melts my brain. And I just love ketamin.

Even more pleasant to me: Benzos and benzolikes. I avoid taking them like the plague they are, but I think about them every single day, probably once every hour. They just feel so damn good and they are then only drug I could ever be addicted to.

Yet even thoughts of nicotine make me feel physically sick in my stomach and throat. I never want to take it again in any form.

I also strongly dislike coffee despite actively trying to start consuming it to become more human and do the "go for a coffee" thing they all love to do.

Everyone is different!
According to comments in the .asm file

It will generate (14000-14)/14*2 digits.
Cannot go further with current precision

Which works out to about 500 digits. Maybe it's just reached its limit.

https://github.com/nanochess/pi/blob/master/pi.asm
I have to disagree. As long as the generated content is meaningful and relevant to the discussions, I don't see a reason to ban it.
There’s a “done” and an “X” button, but there were only about 3 pixels of each visible to click in landscape mode. The aspect ratio seems to have a big effect here
I'm saying:

if you are banning cigarettes because of their addictive effects. Then you should ban every nicotine-based product.

If you are banning cigarettes because of their health effects, then why not regulate other similarly devastating products?

Then I reasoned that law can only do what is socially accepted. Banning cigarette is socially accepted, so they decided to do it.

In the end, it is about social acceptability first, not just addiction or health effects.
Pretty nice, but I'm colorblind :(
I have a form of cystic fibrosis. Last I checked, the condition accounts for a third of all adult lung transplants in the US and half of all pediatric lung transplants in the US.

I was diagnosed late in life with a relatively mild form of it. "The normal progression of CF" is a standard phrase in the CF community and its purpose is to tell patients to quit their bitching and accept that their steadily declining health is a NORMAL for people stupid enough to be born with this genetic disorder.

Having been diagnosed late in life, etc etc, I found my diagnosis very empowering and began getting better. My doctor expressed zero curiosity about how that was helping and simply scheduled me fewer appointments because "he had patients that actually needed him."

I used to have a hole in my left lung. I don't anymore.

I used to be a lot more open about my medical situation on HN under my previous handle of Mz. I've toned it down a lot because I get so much utter and complete bullshit from people who absolutely refuse to believe that I could possibly know anything medically significant.

I've had a really fucking bad day. I'm sick to death of a long list of things. I don't plan to continue to argue this on HN.

I'm right. I know I'm right. I know there are people who know I am not making this shit up.

But I'm likely to die on the fucking streets because the entire world is hellbent on believing "A former homemaker cannot possibly know fuck all that's medically useful, and we do NOT care that her life depended on it. LA LA LA NOT LISTENING."

Goodnight HN.
> I think it's because of the occasional catastrophic failures that spatter our short history with the technology.

Airliners have the same problem, yet their spin doctors are much more successful. Everybody keeps believing they're the safest form of travel.
I love to see that it's 78% C code. :)

Not trying to be annoying, but it's sometimes fun/interesting[*] to see that C (which gets a lot of critique here) is still important in order to enable higher-level languages like here.

[*]: If, like me, you happen to like C, that is.

Edit: escape those lonely asterisks.
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To be fair, he makes the point that

> there’s this bizarre quirk of human psychology where developers retain the unless against all odds

I have refactored a number of unwieldy `unless` statements written by colleagues so maybe there’s something to that.
I had been a Rackspace customer a few times at various roles. I never experienced this "fanatical support" on anything that mattered.

After several outages where we received pathetic root-cause reports initially, and had to push them hard to provide actual data, and clear commitments to shore up their systems, I would describe them as "fanatical liars".

It is funny, just the other day my wife and I were discussing cloud stuff and I said "I wonder whatever happened to Rackspace". Sounds like they've continued their path of sub-par strategy since I last dealt with them a decade ago.
Are you saying you don’t want to have to apply De Morgan's Theorem any time you read a headline?
If you already smoke, just move to vapes...
If the company actually goes bankrupt and their stock is delisted from exchanges, covering your position becomes much harder since liquidity is greatly reduced.

I think the ideal scenario for a short seller is if the stock loses 99%, stays listed, they cover, then it gets delisted.

I might have that wrong though.
I can’t wait for the fat person tax!
This is wrong. I don't think you searched, but if you did you probably didn't go very far. What you came up (I'm assuming you did search instead of just parroting what everyone else says) from your search is the result of decades or propaganda to demonize tobacco, and nicotine was simply a practical scape goat to go along with it -- well, for a good demonizing marketing campaign to work I guess you need to manufacture or choose an enemy that is easy to spot.

I'm pretty sure there's no double blind, placebo controlled trial contrasting nicotine with cardiovascular health. Simply because for any adverse health effects to come up, it would need to be taken for a very long time, and no one would run such a study. As for tobacco, well, obviously. But it's not really controlled for nicotine, is it?
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Because I can't edit the above comment anymore: Sorry, my bad. I mixed up Binance and Bitfinex there. So please disregard what I said about a connection between Binance and Tether.

Didn't want to introduce another conspiracy theory here...
You are assuming they would sell a version of their product the state want them to sell (and that such a version would give you more options), rather than not sell it at all. That's not necessarily true. There are many products that are not available in different countries because they are incompatible with various regulations.

Replacing consumer choice with state choice leads to less freedom for the consumer. There are often trade-offs that need to be made with regard to the repairability of a product (e.g. a phone's thickness / water resistance / ability to replace the battery), and for the state to interfere in those decisions by force leads to fewer options for the consumer.

Additionally, we should keep in mind that the state has no incentive to help consumers, as they don't have the resources to lobby effectively. I think "right to repair" laws are primarily about helping some companies at the expense of their competitors and customers.
People always underestimate how stable JS is. I would argue that it is more stable and backward compatible than a lot of backend languages. What is not stable in JS - is a whole ecosystem.
>I'm dirt poor. Everyone here should know that.

Do I know you?
Of course ! you are not following my argument. I guess I crammed it too much.
Quite beautiful.
DataPipe (another company where tech support was the #1 priority) was also acquired by Rackspace. However I don't know if it was acquired by the original owners or the current org.
The power of the sun… in the palm of my hand…
LSP runs in a separate process, but handling that process is synchronous in Emacs, I think. So if LSP is slow for something, Emacs will block.
I've released a video and article related to handling errors in Hanami apps. What would be your approach to deal with them?
Some programmers? Maybe. All programmers? Definitely not. In fact, AI has only created more job opportunities so far...
People can prefer the "one obvious way" and you can use a language that has that as its motto. Ruby was built with "developer happiness" as an objective and I don't see it changing any time soon.

I'll never understand these sorts of articles because they criticize the subject for not being what they explicitly aren't.

"I hate spoons because they can't cut like knives"
I messed up there, sorry. That bit about a Binance/Tether connection was bullshit.
It appears that this is exactly what has been set into motion. It also means that Europeans will at some point have to decide whether to regard the US as an adversary or not. I'm afraid the realisation will come too late, just as with Russia.
My pick would be orange. YMMV
> It won't always work

That's the kicker though, and it's the lever the dilemma orchestrators (here, the Feds) have to force a result: smooth out any real-life considerations by making the payoff matrix more extreme. If the cost of failure is life in prison, "slightly increase" and "won't always work" isn't gonna cut it - they can practically guarantee the prisoners will make a specific choice.
I'm not sure I understand - to sell short you already need to borrow securities, can you actually take loans against a short position that becomes worth something? That's interesting.
Yes there is! [0]

[0]: https://framablog.org/2022/12/13/peertube-v5-le-resultat-de-...
"and made it actually realistic for inertial confinement to be a feasible tech for a power producing plant."

Before this is not solved:

"it's not actually generating power"

I simply would not talk about a real power plant yet, because a real power plant has economic constraints. As long as the current approach is not even generating energy, all the scepticism is warranted, if we are talking about something that is supposed to solve energy generation and climate change.
This is why people are upset with it - we need not promises of unsolved tech, but solutions now. So fusion remains exciting and cool tech and I love to read about its recent progress, but please without illusions. Even if they could generate power tommorow - it would still be a very long, unknown way, till it actually helps us.
If you can resist the urge to try and take over the capital city, then you can have smoke and an unlocked bank account in Canada.
I don't see the point in the whole charade of "use words, colors and body parts to describe what you feel" - okay, I'm aware of what I feel, and I've assigned some arbitrary positions on my body to my feelings.

Now what? Do that every day? It feels patronizing and seems like just a way to distract myself. Might as well spend my time playing Factorio, it'll distract me as much.

I hope there is some crucial factor that I don't understand yet, and that someone will explain it to me in a reply. Otherwise, seeing the overwhelmingly positive reaction to such bullsh-t makes me feel like this whole place is fake.

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Due to the negative tone of the above comment, I feel I should point out that it is a criticism of (or attempt to understand better) the concept, not the website itself. The website was very smooth and easy to work through, the author must have put a lot of effort into making it. Kudos, and if it helps people, that's a good thing regardless of my opinion and understanding (or lack thereof).
> Unless you literally steal someone’s work and use it / sell it as your own

Artists creating work are not releasing it on the internet with ShareAlike licenses or any other license which openly allows derivative work or further distribution without a license. This is literally providing a means to stealing people’s work.

How is this any different from providing a listing of copyrighted movies and games and a means to download them, a la The Pirate Bay?
I did specify a vape that has no active substance other than nicotine. So you can pretty much rule out the "chemicals".
Couldn't the ban reasonably be about the combined set of factors?

It's addictive, very damaging to health, and highly negative socially, in a way that vaping and alcohol don't match.
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Almost anything you do( hobbies, diet, having children, etc) affects your actuarial healthcare burden, so introducing that as a justification for restrictions opens the door to regulating anything.

Processed meat is a group 1 carcinogen. Are you going to ban that next? Wait so is sunshine. Are you going to ban sunbathing?

I see this line or argumentation a lot but never a real analysis of why it should be applied in this case. The reality is that people just identify something they want to change and rummage around for a justification and healthcare burden is convenient.

I'm no fan of smoking and think the world would be a lot better without it but this type of argument is not valid in most cases without a much stronger justification.
Brokers use conventional bank accounts for your dollar or euro account balances. The eurozone has instant SEPA now. That is as fast as it gets. Faster than most cryptocurrencies.
There are people who think differently and do appreciate this style. I’m grateful.
Wow, that's sure another level of tech with the ground heater. Not sure if you can DIY that thing...

Sounds great with your energy prices. At that rates, I'd go for electric heating, too. :-D
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Interesting, it was mutlicursor bugs in SublimeText that never got fixed the drove me to finally switch to VSCode.
This is fantastic. I would highly recommend DragonRuby if you like Ruby as a language and would like to dip your toes into 2D game development. The community is very welcoming too.
Are you serious? If anything, the boss should be happy someone is improving their skills on their spare time instead of learning everything on the job.
I agree with this view. Any large, complicated project with a large number of dependencies is going to require maintenance over time, regardless of the language or package ecosystem. Keep your simple projects simple, and if you need to use dependencies to get something off the ground quickly, either be prepared to maintain it or to do some additional work to remove the need for those dependencies over time.
> G is nice,

What's G?

> do the "go for a coffee" thing they all love to do.

Most places these days do chai / chai lattes. It's a perfect social coffee-substitute for me.
The moral is that POPCNT is critical to zillions of massive optimizations, and omitting it from base instruction sets, as has been done over and over and then later corrected, each time at great expense, is extremely foolish. The latest offender was RISC-V, but the overwhelming majority of x86 code is still compiled to a target version lacking it.
> In training, we had been briefed on how to sound like Brenda [The AI Chatbot]. Brenda was chipper and casual, but professionally guarded. She was female and most certainly white, though no one had explicitly told us so. She said things like Sounds great!, Perfect!, and Sorry to hear that. She always brought the conversation back around to real estate.

> Once, a shift supervisor told me that a good tactic in these situations was to lean into Brenda’s robotic qualities. A little strategic obtuseness went a long way, and if the tenant still wouldn’t let up, I could start to repeat myself on a loop.

Reminds me of how Baudrillard said the simulation of the world will come to blend and replace the real one until the distinction loses all meaning.

I will never be able to talk to a call agent again and not consider the origins of their turns of phrase.