skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>no company has come out with a 'healthier cigarette'

It’s a tough sell, especially since smoke is now banned pretty much everywhere indoors and outdoors.

There is no shortage of “healthier nicotine devices” though: gum, vapes, Zyn, etc.
How technically challenging is building(?) printing(?) these pieces? Presumably they need to withstand enormous amounts of strain. Can you produce an impromptu factory anywhere, or does this require sophisticated equipment that benefits from fixed installations?
Every company will hand over your data if subpoenaed by a law enforcement agency in the country they operate in.
+1 yes, this is the most important trick.
Well, nobody ever accused high school debate teams as being founts of wisdom.
Need to. There are typhoons in the area, and they're getting stronger. 200 mph would be better.
Fifty isn’t old, youngsters.
That you technically have the ability to call into an internal module does not in any way constitute it "offering itself up as a library", and doesn't make it effectively useful in that way.
I kinda think "just blindly update the snapshots" is teaching the wrong lesson. We removed them from our projects and haven't missed them.

Visual diffing, cypress >>>> snapshots IMO.
Thanks for such helpful feedback. Will ensure that is done next time!
Maybe, say maybe let us get forward some legislation, adding criminal liability to the executives ignoring such things, explicitly.

Because if Purdue taught anything to the U.S. is that their voters do not care. We should prove them wrong I suggest. (Related to the events.)

If you think your vote doesn't count: congratulations, the entities you complain about convinced you wrong, and are doing their job. Demonstrate, create groups and demand things from your representative, pick someone from the group you have to run against your representative. There is no democracy otherwise. Time we start caring.

These might be called rights on each constitution, but that is a misnomer: they are jobs each citizen needs to do. Sorry, but that is the truth in the end.

Disclaimer: Above message is for the residents of every democratic country.
A World of Blocs?
What Your Body Odor Says About You (2021)
> It is a module.

> It does not offer itself up as a library.

in Go code, those are the same thing.
Seeing is believing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ
Overmind, a better foreman or bin/dev for your Procfile
Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US post social media: 0

Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US pre- social media: 1

I'll take social media and quit cigarettes.
Oh thank god, now I can have a more authentic online interaction with the brands I know and love!
In a way, yes. I vape instead of smoking. But it isn't the same. It's a different way to get nicotine, like dipping. And vaping was, AFAIK, more of a grass roots thing than a Big Tobbaco thing, at least at first. It felt like Big Tobbaco was caught kinda unawares when vaping became very popular and ended up buying a bunch of vape companies.
Can someone parse the title for me?

I feel like there might be a couple of garden paths in there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
I think the point is that there’s no need to go to such lengths to enforce it. They build the picker UI so most users will just pick an emoji using that. Sometimes it’s important to limit degrees of freedom with strict validation but in this case I’d wonder if a non emoji would really cause a problem.
> It's just different

If you mean that civilian life is different from military life, yes, of course, that's to be expected. That doesn't mean civilian "reality" is somehow more valid or more accurate than military "reality". Indeed, since most civilians aren't expected to routinely risk their lives as part of their job, one would expect civilians' view of reality to be missing some things. (And looking at civilians whose jobs do routinely involve risking one's life, such as police or firefighting, might give quite a different take on even civilian "reality".)

> Are you still in the military

No. I already said elsewhere in this discussion that my military experience is several decades old.

> you are sending clear signals that you are not in control of your own mind

Spare me your patronizing. You are welcome to your uninformed opinions, but don't expect me to respect them. I see no point in further discussion with you.
Chronic alcohol consumption can also cause thiamine deficiency.
I think the point is some view debate as a way to force folks to consider views they might not fully agree with. The search for common ground was the lesson.

As this story is presented, a lot of these feel like non-sequiturs. Not wrong, and not not worth discussing, but not in the spirit of the debate.
Considering the magnitude of the discovery and the relatively easy steps to reproduce the process, they would have to be outrageously lazy to have put the paper out without doing it a second time. In absence of a statement that they only tried it once, I think it's fair to assume they at least verified they can reproduce it locally.
>If you were in charge of public health, would you focus on making cigarettes “safer” or on smoking cessation?

That question was answered years ago when smoke was banned in pretty much every indoor and outdoor space across America.

Would take a pretty big effort to reverse that now. Not saying it couldn’t be done, though
We could replace alcohol with GHB. Done.
What're your thoughts on MathAcademy? I heard about it here on HN several months ago, and it's been on my list of things to check out, once I finish my current two side projects.
Who the hell has time or mental capacity to do any of that when you're just trying to scrape by or make it to the end of the day though?
Smoking is sad thing

It generates so many negative things for barely 1 or two positive

and yet people argue for it in the name of some "freedom"

How does destroying your and people's around health, getting an addiction, paying bonus $$ to the govt as a additional tax and stinking sound like a "freedom"
The NPCs that have their unique walking and standing animations seems to have been replicated too. See here: https://osrs.world/?cx=2956.96&cy=6&cz=3363.12&p=-151&y=2047... . OSRS wiki supports lookup by NPC IDs: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Special:Lookup?type=npc&i... . So that itself isn't too complicated.

I think the dataset they're using is https://archive.openrs2.org/ . It looks like NPC data might be a part of that. This version has the wrong NPC mappings, and also missing object data: https://osrs.world/?cx=3262.58&cy=8.22&cz=3265.93&p=-244&y=1...

Older Runescape 2 (pre-OSRS) caches have objects but no NPCs.
Do they make money by showing ads to people who are able to actually get to their website?
If we want a shift to walking, we need to either a) develop cities much more slowly and organically with a car prohibition (1800s simulator) or b) copy the layouts of cities that developed under a natural version of (a).

There is also another issue in the USA specifically, which is that certain people don't want to live around certain other people. This has driven a lot of the suburbanization in the USA AFAICT. I'm not sure what to do about it, exactly, but what's being done currently does not appear to be working.
Ways to print hello world in assembler on a Raspberry Pi
Given that the wind is pushing it, wouldn't the blade tip's speed somehow be naturally limited by the wind speed?
Yes, go ahead and bring ethnic tensions into an HN comment section. This will end well.
Of course, but currents here are a result of a field that moves those electrons one way or another, and electrons move, before the field reaches the other end (where a resistor is.. or is not.. or a short circuit is), so in your analogy, marbles move down the tube, before they "realize" that the tube is closed on the other end.
While I'm not suggesting tobacco is fine or anything; they really aren't comparable. Opiate addiction is going to completely take any quality of life away from you (tbh regardless of legality, people that were on prescription opiates still had horrendous disability and mental illness caused by the constant abuse of them, though obviously having to spend hundreds of dollars a day on an illegal supply adds a whole new dimension of horror).

Most people who smoke tobacco don't experience any significant quality of life issues until many decades in when the COPD and serious illness starts. Obviously horrible - but I would say you'd lose more than 7x more quality of life (disability adjusted years?) being an opiate addict over being a smoker.
It’s still true to say the movie lacked a cohesive story — it may have been “about the man” but it was an incoherent battery of spoken facts rather than a personal journey with growth and progression.
I recently wrote about Overmind (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind), a drop in replacement for foreman.

If you've ever used Foreman or another local Procfile/process manager, I think you'll love Overmind.

It's basically a more customisable foreman that runs in tmux - which means you can do cool things like tmux into a process and attach a debugger (which is nearly impossible with foreman).

Hope you enjoy the article!
ice cream isn't a net positive for society? :(
https://archive.ph/XFLra
I know, but its never really taught how much more complicated the situation is that leads to the start of a war. At best it documents events, but history at least in my case never went into the politics. History was more a case of just remembering facts, but teaching might have changed a bit since my time.

One example of some of the stuff I heard the imperialist forces were up to in Japan, again I dont know how much is true or not, I wasnt there, but I do also read conspiracy theories to broaden my horizons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army_during_...
Genuinely, in non academic competition often the best way to “beat” an opponent is to change the rules

Examples of this that are well understood are regulatory capture, where group A convinces a more powerful group B to enforce a new constraint on all competitors to group A. Generally the constraint is a marginal impediment to group A and so “levels the playing field” *wink*

So the idea that there’s some pure form of rhetoric that is actually worth practicing, given that human conflict (from the minor to the major) is rarely to never solved via this mechanism (even in formal legal proceedings) - it’s not clear what is actually being learned here

Other than later in life realizing how formal debate has almost no application and it’s all about how you refine and evaluate your own arguments.
Smokers are functional. Junkies... well, they're junkies. One is a useful member of society, the other is a liability at the best of times.

And smokers die old. Quickly too... don't linger on with chronic disease like other old people. Helps keep Medicare solvent.
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People worship all kinds of characters, not just the morally good ones. Morality itself is debatable, and then many just like powerful people who seem to be winning at life, no matter the cost.
I am not sure what is your point. Do not ever construct critical infrastructure because it might be targeted in war? You say window turbine, but that could just as easily be a coal plant, hospital, car factory, legislative building, etc.
x.com is working, though I haven’t checked what happens past the login screen
He doesn’t invest in cigarettes.

He did say something stupid about them years ago, particularly when taken out of context. If you think DQ and Coca Cola are bad for society I can see that, but you should also be able to see that plenty of people disagree with your view.
hard plastic seats

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/05/56/21781404/4/1200x0.jpg

inadequate climate control

I've not spent enough time on the current crop of Muni streetcars, but the old ones were horrific. They had fixed windows and really unreliable A/C. Perhaps the one saving grace of the first generation ones is that you could open the windows. BART's much worse, but the drivers will typically take note of cars without A/C because it can be indicative of bigger electrical problems.

poor maintenance leading to excessive nose and exhaust fumes in the cabin

Poor maintenance is poor maintenance. For a while Muni drivers would disable the door interlocks on the trams because the doors were so unreliable. Used to be inattentive drivers would take off without checking to see if anyone was trying to board. Ask me how I know…

extremely poor personal space
seating configurations with poor leg room

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Check out that seat right by the articulation joint. Or the seats next to the stairs

convoluted routes and schedules, degrading point-to-point travel

This is a system not mode issue. BART's designed for point to point travel (mostly out of hubris really) and Muni is designed around multi-modal transfers.

the driving can be uneven, because they aren't much better off than riders

Then you've really not seen just how bad auto train control can be. When manually operated I'd run into drivers who couldn't remember how long the train was and accelerate out of a 90 degree turn and knock people at the back out of their seats. In the early 00s Muni managed to actually derail real dramatically for the same reason.

Light rail can be better but not always. Certainly the diesel vs electric issue can come into play (although you can make some truly awful trolley coaches too).
What about energy and emissions from mining, transport, grounding, shipping, dispersing it?

How does it look then?
A Lock-Free Vector
I don’t know if many other leaves that will give you mouth cancer from chewing them either.
Who said blindly update snapshots?

Agreed that cypress today is probably a better solution.
A library and a module are the same. Having an open and available module does not make it "offered up as a library," was the point I was trying (and failing, evidently), to make.
I wonder how the Manatees are handling this heat ? I have not heard anything about them.
Better GNUisms than muslisms

glibc has been more wildly tested, and fixed what was not working, while musl choices were mostly ideological
> Except for price, because a lot of people want to live in dense areas.

And the way to fix that is for urban areas to allow for more construction of living space. Which, historically, urban areas are very bad at doing, for example by restricting the maximum height of buildings. But how is that the suburbs' fault?

> Why exactly do you think you should have a say over how other people live?

I have said no such thing. I have never said there should not be urban areas. Indeed, I have explicitly said that there should be areas of all different kinds, urban, suburban, and rural, so that everyone's different preferences can be accommodated somewhere. You are the one who keeps talking as if everywhere should be dense urban areas.

> your support of zoning in order to prevent other people from building density on their own property is exactly that.

So you think I should be able to build a single family home in the middle of Manhattan, provided I can buy the land?

Zoning is much more of an issue in urban areas, and in fact, as I noted above, is one of the main reasons why urban housing is overly expensive.
To clarify even further, you can technically log into OSRS with old accounts, but none of your stats or gear from back in the day will be there. Everyone started fresh in OSRS when it (re)released in 2013.
Amazingly, what worked was: Actually read and follow the AppStore guidelines, rather than complain about how unfair the review was.
@H8crilA is talking about energy, you are describing current. Energy flow is the product of the electric and magnetic fields [1]; electric field within a conductor is zero, therefore energy flow within a conductor is zero.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector
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This isn't really true. Most of the death from smoking comes from other lung & heart problems, not cancer.

As such even if you smoke for many decades and quit your risk decreases dramatically pretty quickly, even within days.
Here it is as ebooks [1]. $99 ($74.25 for MAA and AMS members). On sale for $59.40. I think the sale price is just for MAA and ASM members).

[1] https://bookstore.ams.org/gardner-set/
Hmm. But is that the difference between opiate and nicotine addiction? Or the difference between the restrictions we placed on them?

In other words if we would treat tobaco the way we treat the hard drugs, would people addicted to it perform crimes to get their fix on the surely much more expensive black market?

I truly don’t know the answer.
We humans are such binary thinkers, myself included.

If we could somehow silently reduce Polonium-210 in tobacco while also lowering smoking in general, that would be ideal.

Japan did it. [0] Why can’t the rest of the world?

Smoking is huge in Central and Eastern Europe still. Sadly, I smoke sometimes out here. Wish I could find a brand with lower radioactivity for those times.

People have the gear to test for this. A brand comparison would make for a great citizen science Patreon funded video.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905717
Huh, well good to know. Though not before his life was upturned and he did spend two weekends in jail.
In San Francisco Muni shelters are largely all the same whether for street level bus or tram. They're all equally awful because they were designed to be inhospitable in an attempt to prevent people from sleeping at them.

https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser-col-...
Sorry, wrong thread. Too late to delete
Damn. Makes you wonder what kinds of horrible things big companies are doing now which will only be uncovered in the next 20 years or so. What makes tobacco companies less ethical than say big pharma or big tech companies?

It's a systemic issue. At the core of this issue is the concept of a corporation. The real cancer are the legal constructs of limited liability and the concept of corporate person-hood. Companies are simply not meant to become so large; they are physically incapable of handling the kind of liability which they will inevitably be exposed to on a global scale. The scale of such companies gives them inertia which allows them to transcend ethical boundaries; with global exposure, they can always find enough people who are unethical enough to undertake the necessary cover-ups to keep things going in a way which maximizes short-term profits.

Had the tobacco industry been made up of many smaller businesses, the information would have gotten out sooner as many small tobacco businesses would have voluntarily shuttered their doors in response to the research... But with a handful of gigantic companies headed up by some of the most ethically challenged individuals that all of planet earth could provide, it's not surprising that it didn't happen that way.

Capitalism is meant to be composed of small, mostly short-lived businesses that are almost ephemeral in nature. It should be easy to start a new business just as closing an existing business should not be a big deal. Long term inter-generational wealth should be difficult but not impossible to preserve; though it could be preserved using a deflationary currency as a market-neutral store of value; its value would be derived either from trust in the institution or in the automatic mechanism which administers the currency (e.g. the government or public ledger).

Imagine what we could achieve with today's technology if only we had kept the efficient capitalist system which our ancestors had designed; a system which proved itself to be efficient during hard times of technological and resource scarcity.

Our current system evolved in a post-scarcity environment and therefore it is not optimized for resource efficiency. It's optimized for centralization of power.
I think there are some moves left in this cat-and-mouse game. I wonder if the model could be trained to detect most kinds of gibberish and refuse to interpret them?
If it's like in Europe, if a contract is illegal or restrict rights disproportionately, it's unenforceable.
No we wouldn't

Imagine that you would give a gentleman from mid 19th century discharged tablet. Would he be able to understand what is the purpose of the device? Very unlikely. And that's difference of just 150 years.

If aliens aren't on our tech level +-50 years, but are i.e. 1000 years ahead of us then they would look like wizards and gods to us. If they would be 10000+ years ahead of us, we would be looking on them like animals are looking on us - completely unable to understand what is going on.
Yes well luckily there’s an entire field dedicated to this problem: actuarial science

It’s pretty accurate at this point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom

Freedom doesn’t mean making good decisions. It means having the liberty to make a decision, even if it’s not in your own best interest.

Do you have a right to destroy your own health? Do you have a right to get yourself addicted to a substance? Do you have a right to smell bad? Does the government have a right to exact a tax to disincentivize bad decisions? Do you have a right to contaminate the air in personal spaces like your own home? Do you have the right to contaminate the air in public spaces?

Do you have a right to tell someone else they aren’t allowed to make any number of those decisions?

There’s the other side of the transaction as well. Do you have a right to grow something that’s bad for your health? Do you have the right to smoke it? Do you have the right to share it? Do you have the right to sell it?

In this case, do you have the right to lie to the person you’re selling it to about whether it’s good/bad for their health? How does that change if you didn’t know it was a lie? How does it change if you did? How does it change if you didn’t know, but you could have known if you’d sought out the information?
We should really stop building skyscrapers, as they cause plenty of birth deaths too.

And stop destroying their habitat, and changing the climate which is destroying their migratory air currents and on-route stop-overs.

TLDR: there are plenty of direct and indirect things that cause a _lot_ more bird deaths. Don't let perfect get in the way of good.
That’s essentially vaping: a safer form of consuming nicotine without the smoke or other coincidental pollutants.
Apparently not very good
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/manatee-dies-injuries-s...
That doesn't have data. It doesn't even have good summations.

How is "cycling" defined? For pleasure or for day-to-day travel? How was the data collected? How did they include/ account for the unemployed 20-somethings in poor suburbs who aren't biking to work, aren't "cycling" in events, aren't carrying the family groceries home in a basket, but are on bikes constantly going between houses (and maybe a gas station food mart)?