skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your previous comment didn't include any evidence, but these are pretty interesting. The second one is more damning, but again the majority of studies were on smokers. I'll update my statement and say there is little evidence that nicotine by itself is carcinogenic. As the second article says "The IARC monograph has not included nicotine as a carcinogen." so it's still not conclusive. The strongest thing I see in the second article is that nicotine can help promote existing tumors, that's concerning.

But the way science works is by having lots of viewpoints and research - there are also plenty of papers on how nicotine is not carcinogenic.

"Smokers commonly misperceive that nicotine is a major carcinogen" - https://thorax.bmj.com/content/66/4/353#ref-2

"The literature to February 2019 suggests that there is no increased cardiovascular risk of nicotine exposure in consumers who have no underlying cardiovascular pathology. There is scientific consensus that nicotine is not a direct or complete carcinogen, however, it remains to be established whether it plays some role in human cancer propagation and metastasis. " - https://f1000research.com/articles/8-1586
(This is what I saw in the second article - looks like there is a chance that nicotine can promote existing cancer)

"The devastating link between tobacco products and human cancers results from a powerful alliance of two factors — nicotine and carcinogens. Without either one of these, tobacco would be just another commodity, instead of being the single greatest cause of death due to preventable cancer. Nicotine is addictive and toxic, but it is not carcinogenic. This addiction, however, causes people to use tobacco products continually, and these products contain many carcinogens." - https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc1190

I am not a vaper, I do use patches and gum. I believe that damning nicotine prevents the development of replacements for smoking which is incredibly dangerous. I don't vape because research on that is in really early stages, and there's a good chance there might be something bad in the long term, though there is no strong evidence that it is worst than other NRT, except that levels of NNAL are higher (see the first paper you posted).

Edit To clarify that you didn't provide evidence in your first post - you linked to https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-nicotine-5075412 which has citations, but the comments about nicotine being carcinogenic linked to studies that studied smoking, not NRT or non-smoke based nicotine.
Hiding the truth because some bad people might do bad things is a pitiful excuse. Absolutely shameful to anyone with even a teardrop of integrity.

Few people want war with China. But I know of plenty that think China should be footing the bill and paying the entire world damages for their incompetence (or malice) in mishandling their bioweapon.

Communists have no integrity. ChiComs blamed the US for the virus, which is ironic, since the NIH knowingly or unwittingly (incompetence) funded it through Eco Health Alliance.
I think the speed between different tiling managers is negligible when compared to not using one at all. They're all highly configurable.
The underlying theme here is that people can do good and demonstrate their benevolent nature by (1) first making a lot of money and (2) then donating a percentage of that money to philanthropic organizations which will act to improve societal conditions. However, a good chunk of POs today are little more than tax shelters and semi-covert influence operations aimed at protecting and consolidating wealth.

A better and fairer approach is to have a tax structure that progressively increases relative to one's income, as was the case in 1960s America. Yes, there were many loopholes but they also pushed individuals in certain directions - for example, corporations could avoid high taxation rates by plowing a good chunk of their profits into R & D programs, there was a high estate tax so children of the ultra-wealthy would be encouraged to develop marketable skills rather than just inheriting their wealth, and the tax revenue was used to build robust domestic infrastructure, quality public schools, and a public healthcare system accessible to all - along with services like police, fire, emergency services, national defense, scientific research, etc.

Incidentally, modern neoclassical economics is fundamentally flawed, as humans are not rational actors, utility is not energy, externalities are not a valid concept, etc. It has little if any predictive power and serves more as a propagandistic justification of a failing economic system. See:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-economist-has...
I usually start in a new place with the expat groups in FB, Meetup, etc. Any desirable location you might be considering is nearly guaranteed to have them. Go to a few events and meet people, there's usually locals too. Another great option is group clases like crossfit, salsa dancing, etc.
Well, it certainly reads like a lesswrong post.

> Economies of trade and professional specialization are not just vaguely good yet unnatural-sounding ideas, they are the only way that anything ever gets done in this world. Money is not pieces of paper, it is the common currency of caring.

Ask your mom how much money she made raising you.

I'm not even opposed to the basic ideas of effective altruism and I agree that giving your money to a cause isn't inherently lesser than giving your time. But why add all of this borderline incoherent babble at the start of the article?
GPS directions tend to be much more difficult for pedestrians than for drivers because the direction you're pointed is either undefined or hard to ascertain. That's when asking someone "which way is X" is necessary.
UltraEdit is on the Mac now. It's not as polished as the Windows version but it is good and you get UltraCompare with it as well.
This is true. Just plopping a property into an LLC doesn't give you automatic liability protection. It has to be treated as a separate business.
How do you work with a computer you don't trust?
I think the problem then is a position where there is only one winning move that is 8+moves away. If one is mate in 10 and the others are mate in 3 for your opponent how do you reconcile those into one evaluation?
I just go to Walmart or Target. It’s infinitely less annoying than going to GameStop to get a new game.
And that's semi-how we got the Video Privacy Act [1].

Some journalist was like, "what happens if I go to [VHS Rental Store] and ask for the list of videos a supreme court nominee rented". And the store gave him the list and he subsequently published it and then congress panicked as they knew their rental history could be next.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
The more WASP-y an event is, the more likely it's an excuse to get smashed. For example: Princeton reunions, the Head of the Charles Regatta, country club member/guest tournaments, any polo match ever.
Pretty sure Categories is what you're talking about for outlook.
Voiclet
You don't need a call center to talk with your customers.
Let them call your phone from their browsers.
There are guidelines for comments generally [0]. What special guidelines would you like to see for product launches?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Personal accountability is a dying trait it seems. Sorry you are getting downvoted for what seems to be an accurate assessment of the situation. I wonder if the people downvoting would argue that advertisers for taco bell are not complicit in your buying a taco?
Water scarcity to severely impact large Asian economies
> while still maintaining spatial awareness

That presumes there was spatial awareness in the first place. Most people don't understand directions (as in cardinal and relative) nor can relate their current position to the map. Hell, the reason most of them ain't lost and got eaten by wolves is just because they live in the cities, there are no wolves and eventually someone can point them to the right direction.

Also, every time people use 'GPS' instead of a 'navigation system' I mentally facepalm again. Thanks, America. Now I need to get in my 'Nissan' Ford to drive to 'Target' Walmart.
While I agree with your overall point, your final sentence is addressed in the essay (see "up to a positive scalar factor").
> Modern regulators seem to prefer retrospective punishment over prospective advice and regulation.

The pertinent laws have been in force since 1933 and 1934, and the Howey Test since 1946. I'd call that regulation prospective enough. Not the SEC's fault that Coinbase preferred wishful thinking (I mean, it sort of worked for Uber).
The truth hurts.

An influential and prominent bureaucrat once said america has no friends or enemies, just interests. Think about it.

Isn't it more insulting to call countries you firebombed and nuked "friends and allies". Imagine if china firebombed germany and currently occupies it. Would we not laugh if china called germany their friend and ally? Imagine if russia nuked japan and occupied it. Would we call them besties for life?

Edit: You still haven't answered what ireland's problem with iran is? What's ireland's problem with russia and china. And what issues do they have with the mexicans.
The Demise of the Garage Inventor
Export your ChatGPT conversations as PDF/Doc
Export Chat is a ChatGPT plugin which lets you export your ChatGPT conversations as a PDF/Doc with just a single message. Just type "export the previous message" or conversation.

Find it under the list of plugins in ChatGPT.

Checkout exporter.hexonlabs.com for understanding how to create better exports. Do let me know any feedback!
would love to see a new radio shack; a proper maker-supply store.
The flaw in this is right here, "There is this very, very old puzzle/observation in economics about the lawyer who spends an hour volunteering at the soup kitchen, instead of working an extra hour and donating the money to hire someone to work for five hours at the soup kitchen."

The lawyer does not truly spend the hour in the soup kitchen for the purpose of feeding people. But rather for what the lawyer gets out of spending that hour. Things like motivation and understanding the problem better.

Here is a concrete illustration of the principle. Back in the 1960s, Robert Townsend made it a requirement at Avis that everyone had to work a certain amount of time each year behind the service desk. Having vice presidents do that work was certainly not cheaper than hiring a random person to do it. But having vice presidents be directly aware of where the problems were in that job was in the long run far cheaper than letting them remain unaware and therefore not fixing the problems.

This is not what Robert Townsend is best known for though. He's known for having come in to a failing company, and turning it around. In particular he is the CEO under whom the slogan "We try harder" was begun. A slogan that, incidentally, was produced by his inspiring the ad people to try harder themselves!

He tells the story in his book Up The Organization! He didn't have a big ad budget. So he asked how he could best motivate the ad people to work on his account. A friend advised him that what they really most wanted was creative freedom. So he told them that he'd accept whatever they said was their best idea, sight unseen. This is why they dared come up with a slogan that undermined standard assumptions about how to do business - and it worked!
I haven't uninstalled, but I had to hide my Sync icon in a folder I open rarely, to keep from clicking it out of habit.

Staying away from Reddit hasn't been too hard but it gets new stuff faster than the newspapers or other media sites I regularly go to. This forces me to slow down and read the other sites' articles more thoroughly which is probably good.
That it's a false belief. One of two things happens in those cases:

1. That person is in some way sad regardless of what they profess, or

2. They have their own subgroup where they rate status according to the status rankings of the subgroup. This can include rejecting the status hierarchy of the mainstream, but this itself is a status play

With the internet this sub group can now be entirely online. But there does not exist such a thing as someone entirely insensitive to social status.

If you posit there is, can you name an example of such a person?
"Nice" comes from the Latin "nescius" meaning "ignorant, stupid". Etymology is fun, but often completely irrelevant to the matter at hand.
The BBC also broadcast radio on...the TV. It's a TV app for "connected TVs": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/getting-started-...
Apple, Facebook and the Future of Computing
Do you want to lead a team? Do you want to become a manager or stay a developer? I would think more about that. You're very close to becoming a manager and no longer performing IC work like coding. That's a great career path, but you can also push to stay in a technical career path and go down the principle engineer route.
Is this gender differences or sex differences? Nowadays it's even more important to be consistent with wording, especially for scientific or medical investigations.

> Despite these important implications, we still know very little about why women take fewer risks than men."

> When asked how they saw themselves financially a year from now with expectations about outcomes under the individual's control, men were significantly more optimistic than women.

> The research indicates that this optimism may be linked to men's overconfidence about their abilities compared to women which previous studies have highlighted.

But the actual reasons for the sex or gender differences are still guesswork here. Why is there a divide between men and women's average optimism? Why is there a divide between men and women's average loss aversion? Are these average differences somehow innate to the sex/gender, and if so, why, or something about society, and if so, what?

They controlled for some personality traits, but did they control for socioeconomic conditions? For economic power (such as financial benefits from a current job)?

I hope future researchers can use this data as a starting point to discovering mechanisms. And do comparisons across countries to partly determine whether this is a social effect or biological effect (though women's historic economic subordination to, and dependence on, men, the world over may make cross-country comparisons only somewhat good at this).
And when we're done transitioning and the problem of end of life batteries becomes more obvious we will live in a world with a battery problem (among many other unforeseen problems I am sure, that's just the blindingly obvious one right now). There's no free lunch, life is trade offs, fossil fuels have been an excellent trade off so far (just look at all the labor they freed up to pursue technological advancement in countries with institutions favorable to rewarding individual achievement).

Because of the trade off nature of this situation your argument is entirely wrong. The main problem is climate changes when we add heat to it faster than we can dissipate it into space. The solution to the main problem is some combination of things that increases our ability to dissipate heat, which will include some amount of fossil fuel consumption decrease. There are secondary problems with the different green house gases that will dictate the optimal decrease mix but that's not that relevant to the main problem with your thought process.

Fossil fuels were a glorious solution to the horror of the average man's existence, they continue to be a large benefit and could be a glorious solution again in the right circumstances so it serves no one to make a "fossil fuel bad!" religion out of it.
They solve different problems
Just happened to me as well when I tried to answer another comment :/
> You are talking about running huge social experiments based on guesses about what might work better

No, I'm not. But it's a good idea.

> extremely difficult to convince people to participate

Yes - easier to just stop tricking people into known-unhealthy behaviors first.

> Hardly simple.

The answer is simple. The implementation may or may not be [more simple than trying to replicate the lives of people in the past].
Surprisingly, gay "dating" apps are a great way to meet people, for even platonic social encounters. Besides the obvious, I've had countless people offer to answer questions for me, show me around, give me a place to chill with some cats, teach me the slang when I get homonyms wrong (heh), or two messages in will just invite me to come hang out with their random hodge podge of friends on a random night.

The inherent frankness/directness of the environment, combined with free text, tags, and search/filtering, all make this a more flexible tool than other more conventional non-quotation-mark dating apps.
python is syntactic sugar - the heavy lifting is done by c/c++ bindings.

many ML experts are not software engineers. They just want syntax to get their job done. fair enough.
Yes, or even a public traffic dashboard right?
> whereas a cart should work forever.

Potentially true, but less and less so these days. I have a couple of physical games that are unplayable without a day one patch. The cartridge doesn't have everything it needs to play the game. Once the servers stop hosting the content and I swap consoles, I won't be able to play the game.

Chances are, it'll outlive my interest in the game so it's whatever to me personally, but I do get that for some people who play older games it means that game will eventually become officially unplayable.
RIP Babbage's
I didn't think Germany had much craft beer given the purity law.
Sendgrid doesn't log sent email bodies, as a simple example. Think harder!
>> In reality that data will sit there unreviewed in 99.9999% of cases.

> I believe AI and LLMs will change that, unfortunately.

Maybe. It'll be a race between one set of AI to generate lots of content, and a different set of AI to analyze it all.

It's not obvious to me that the side doing the analyzing will win out.
As a Powerups Reward Pro member I received a completely incomprehensible email the other day that claimed I could get something (an NFT?) for free but when I clicked on the link I could see no sign of it, just offers to buy a handful of inscrutable products…. They certainly will sell you a metal plate that has some relationship with an NFT and it seems maybe you can get a T-Shirt with a picture of an NFT on it…. Maybe.

Although I’m a crypto skeptic, YOShInOn shows me articles from Coindesk every day even though y’all will rarely vote for one if I post it to HN. I’m very aware of what is going on in the crypto world and if a marketing letter doesn’t make any sense to me it could only make sense to a handful of crypto bros.
I’m conflicted here, because you made some great points that I’m excited to think about/try, but you’re so angry! I guess I’m just joining an ongoing decimal-themed flame war from many years ago, lol. For example, this:

“ Dewey Decimal[0] (which is what JD cribs almost everything conceptually from)”

seems a little uncharitable! It’s pretty openly a specialization/variation on DD, and I’d be surprised if many people on here (or really in the culture at all) weren’t vaguely aware of DD from their school days. So “crib” seems a little pejorative imo

Re: substance, I’d be interested in a clarification if you find the time: why do codes for individual files bother you so?

You need to differentiate them somehow, and the first pure-DD solution I found doesn’t apply at all:

“ we also add to the end the first three letters of the author's last name (or, if no author is given, then the first three letters of the title). In our example, the author is James Brock, so BRO is added to the end of the Dewey call number to get 595.789/BRO.” - https://www.oakland.edu/Assets/upload/docs/SEHS/ERL/Document...

It just seems plainly helpful to have numbers before files, especially for ones that you’ll be returning to and/or recreating for other projects a lot, e.g. documents within your usual project management system.
And even if it is a separate business, you probably only get protection from things like unpaid bills, etc. Liability (especially criminal liability) will pierce the LLC quite rapidly.
> meanwhile, in C and C++, we have `make`.

And `cmake`, and `conan`, and `autotools`, and `scons`, and `bazel`, and...
> A corporation is nothing but a community.

I disagree. A corporation is a machine for economic production. It is not a community, it is a mechanism. Communities can exist within corporations, of course, but the community aspect is secondary at best.
‘Embryo Models’ Challenge Legal, Ethical and Biological Concepts
That's fine if both companies (or the one resulting company) never wants to do business in the UK again...
This is so cool. I am going to build a command line app around this. Love it! All the best!
I am both amused by those names you cited, and absolutely not asking what they are.
You don’t even have to work explicitly in adtech.

I was an early employee at Disqus (YC S07). I helped build its 3rd party commenting plugin, because I had a blog and believed in distributed discussion. I genuinely believe the company did too (the founders, the employees, etc.). But eventually the rubber hits the road, and Disqus was sold years later to Zeta Global [1], a “data-driven marketing company”.

As long as you have a database in the cloud with a non-trivial amount of user data, you don’t really have control over what becomes of it.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/zeta-global-acquires-comme...
GPT-3 was released less than a year before that, even though this now seems to be long ago. Time is moving fast with AI.
Thanks for the links. I'm just an hobbyist, but Alpine is often marketed as being great for containers. Interesting to see another perspective
I love money, it's the source of so much good.
Their webhook doesn't send the full body? I'm sure you at least get the data if not the exact data sent...
Suppose you want to turn your business into a publicly traded company. If you don’t already have enough cash to pay for the process, you raise money from accredited investors (VC funds, angels, whatever). Then you do the paperwork. Then, when everything is approved, you get to sell shares to the general public. The overall process has been well established for a long time.

For some reason, people seem to think an ITO should change all the rules, and that first you sell to the general public, and then you figure everything else out (assuming you don’t just take the money and run). This is IMO nonsense.