skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure whether I can or should dispute your basic point, but I will say that pharmaceutically pure nicotine is radically different to tobacco smoke.

People who quit smoking are actually quitting a synergistic cocktail of drugs - nicotine and a variety of MAO inhibitors found in tobacco smoke. There is good evidence to suggest that these MAOI components dramatically increase the addictiveness of nicotine.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01618...
It won’t, but a random person off the street might not immediately notice the difference, particularly if they’d never used one before.

Even booting it to software, it might be enough for a completely-untrained person to assume it was real. Actually pairing it with a test phone might be the easiest/fastest to be certain.
> [Search] kinda works when you generally know what you need or how a feature you want could be called

I mean, that's how I feel using the GIMP menus. I never know where anything is, and my first guess is usually wrong.
My process for writing Laravel packages
I was recently asked how I go about creating Laravel packages.

I've documented everything from initial setup, creating a package, setting up a repo on GitHub, and publishing to Packagist.
The logical extension of this argument seems to be that the most consumer friendly policy would be to not tax corporations at all. I’m not sure I would agree with that.
I don’t think you understand how loan securitization work.
> I hope they realise that every tax levied on a corporation will simply get passed on to the consumer eventually.

So it is impossible that the profit for owners/shareholders/etc. will sink instead of prices rising?
Exports and imports of United States in 2021

The total value of exports (FoB) was 1,753,137 million.
The total value of imports (CIF) was 2,932,976 million.

Overall Exports and Imports for European Union 2021

The total value of exports (FOB) is US$ 2,576,314 million.
The total value of imports (CIF) is US$ 2,510,166 million.

I guess so?
It really isn't.

In the US we have almost no social safety net. We're cutting back on food assistance budgets, cutting back homeless aid, cutting back medical aid. If you become homeless, suddenly you have next to no chance of finding a job again, and no help from the government.

Cost of living is spiraling out of control while wages stagnate. People ate already having trouble affording the basic necessities.

We are precariously close to having a starving peasant class.
Gtk3 and Gtk4 have been ...well, gimped, and don't have many features. They've been removed in Gtk3/4 by GNOME developers because their DE does not prioritize things like keyboard entry (as compared to mouse use, see gtkfilechooserwidget.c in gtk3/4 not supporting keyboard based pasting of file paths without errors, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872). Gtk2 hasn't fallen victim to this slow erosion of functionality.
In this case, it might not have that effect if it instead onshores money that would have been held in Ireland or Bermuda instead
Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids
Well, we don’t need anecdotes - we have real world statistics in every major market in the world that the household income of an iPhone user is higher then that of an Android user.
I'm not sure preference is behind a grant like this I think many other factors come into the decision. But why would they prefer one over the other? Sorry didn't get your comment at all.
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This is simply approval of an international treaty. Corporations would have to leave 140 markets to avoid it. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/global-tax-agreement/
I think there's probably some room for more diverse options.

The last couple of times I went to the cinema were for when they'd do an English release of a popular anime film (One Piece Film Red and the Slime Isekai film). Those are not getting mainstream promotion. I don't think a couple of banner ads on animenewsnetwork.com count as meaningful. But they were in the "normal" multiplex with modest schedules. I feel like before the pandemic, those would exclusively get a one-week run in the art-house cinema by the college.

I wonder if it's a bit of a "flailing" response from an industry that 1) seems to have lost their cadence a bit after pandemics and labour stoppages, and 2) is still trying to figure out what's a viable draw when so much is heading straight to streaming.

The second-run cinema in town seems to be about a 50-50 split now between "second run of newish films" and a random assortment of classics and things obviously meant as family-friendly.
I can totally see why that song in particular scratched that itch. It definitely has a nostalgic vibe to it (independently of my having grown up with it, I feel).
That is an interesting hypothesis. I hope you are much happier as an adult.
Ok, we've changed the title to use some language from the article body instead. Thanks!
I cancelled my sub months ago when quality tanked and answers got cagey. I have little faith they can provide a good product after months of dev, and communication with the company.
See SoftBank investing in wework (which had a classically bad real estate management biz model dressed as a tech startup) and tell me that again.
If there are demonstrably predatory mortgages in place then yes they should be forgiven, or at the the least converted to a low rate standard loan without mandatory insurance.

We need better laws and repercussions against screwing over the working class.
The addictive properties of nicotine aren't magic. It requires sustained, repeated consumption, like any physically addicting substances. And research has shown that different people have different propensities for addiction (same with cocaine and alcohol).

But if you do become addicted to nicotine, and are one of the people with a high propensity for nicotine addiction, you're fucked. It's one of the most challenging addictions to quit, as we all know. Is this a risk you want to take for some mild stimulation? As a former smoker, I can only believe that anyone who takes this risk does not fully appreciate the consequences. The exception might be people who have consumed nicotine on and off but have never had addictive tendencies. Those people definitely exist, but it still seems like a risky thing to assume about yourself since being wrong could be life altering.

I also take exception to the articles emphasis that moving on to cigarettes is the only real risk. Yes, that's where the majority of the health problems come from. But don't underestimate the negative consequences of a physical addiction, even one that does not lead to health problems. It is not fun to be addicted to anything that contorts your body and mind outside of your control.
My simple take is asking someone to do something should follow two simple rules:

1. Give some context. Not a novel. But some understanding of why. Then be direct.

2. Don’t all the sudden start insulting them when you ask them to do something. I know, sounds easy, but there are a lot of personalities out there.
> Who else has an opportunity to spend 12+ hours a day learning something for years? With no other obligations or responsibilities?

Totally tangential, but this prison article reminded me of a short story by Cory Doctorow about a monastery for programmers. I imagined living in a room about the size of my home office, a bed, a desk, a decent MacBook Pro and a high-speed connection and just hanging out on the Internet all day reading articles and programming. Food and shelter taken care of, no obligations or responsibilities. Like the pictures of Norwegian prison cells.

That reminded me of a weird Internet streamer collective started by a Twitch streamer named Athene. He started a group called The Singularity Group [1] which allowed people to move into a house to volunteer work on philanthropic projects. They are responsible for the AI Jesus [2] channel on Twitch. There is some controversy since some see the streamer as having tried to start a cult [3]. They also created a few mobile games that run on their own crypto-currency.

At any rate, it is all quite interesting to me. It was very common in the past in almost all cultures for a certain number of men to just reject society and go off into hermitage. Sometimes those hermits would band together into brotherhoods. Often they would make beer, or honey or some other collective task to earn enough money for the members to spend the rest of their time in quiet contemplation. I can imagine such a life might be attractive to a lot of programmers who tend to be introverted and feel alien to normal society.

1. https://singularitygroup.net/

2. https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDAkkiwmmBQ
small enterprise companies/upstarts can design their apps more like the traditional dynamic web site. For 95% use case that's good enough. And for the rest 5% case that requires a heavy web "app", you will find out that it's usually not what a small company can do. It's more likely uber or starbuck or facebook or google or microsoft.
US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft
You can't blame anyone for being wrong about an article that's behind a paywall...
Reduce the scope of new expensive projects?
We should chip in for them to do a css bootcamp.
Excuses abound. "There are too many features" So? Do the work. Organize them. "GTK doesn't have xxx, doesn't allow yyy, we have to wait until GTK 5 comes out..." No? Just do the work. Add those features to GTK itself or find a workaround.

Open-source is built one patch at a time, so a big rewrite can never happen. But what's worse, to me, is that people build up this cognitive dissonance that it's some framework's fault that it doesn't have the right dropdown widget yet.
Only temporarily. Over time investors will simply not invest if they aren't suitably compensated.
When Were Credit Scores Invented? A Brief Look at History
I think it's just taking the lists of approved/used names in each country. Denmark has a ton of technically approved names, to accommodate refugees and immigrants, but they don't work well in Danish, because they are Arabic, Somali or whatever in origin.

Perhaps easier to understand examples are Kathy and Abigail. Pretty names in English but they will get completely butchered in Danish. Kathy will pretty much lose the h, and become Cat-i. Abi works, but gail will sound like the German "geil".
I've used 2mg nicotine gum as a mental clarity aid for years. It's cheap, effective, and harmless AFAIK.

I have stopped using it for months at a time and never has any withdrawal symptoms. Caffeine otoh is addictive for me and will cause withdrawal symptoms if I indulge too often. The caffeine buzz can make me jittery and increase ADHD type behaviors for me. Ymmv.
Apple reportedly cut a deal to get cleaner Amazon pages
What technical challenges do you think most Android users face? They use the included apps or go to the Play Store and download apps.

Anecdotally, how well did Epic do when they tried to encourage Android users to side load Fortnite?
I will forever be against weird “hidden” menus and even more against the idiotic replacing of clear, obvious text based menuing with bullshit, stupid, mentally handicapped “just memorize what our developers decided these images mean lol Hurr durr”.

Absolutely hate this redesign.

The correct response to a “too small viewport” for anyone serious is to buy a better monitor with a larger resolution, not to redesign menus in to bullshit obscurity.
Oh - that is freakin' amazing.
- Using CSS to load an endpoint - clever
- Hashing ip + date for anon tracking - thoughtful
- Using :hover to ensure its a real user - genius
Crul looks nice, though, you cannot imagine how many startups that I've seen failed doing a very similar thing as Crul. Wouldn't rely on it.
The problem is complex: Humans generating messy pages
I was excited to see if there were any juicy classified type documents in there.
I recently read a book about experiences in the UK prison system: 'A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner' by Chris Atkins (there is an associated podcast, which is also excellent). It is a fascinating, but rather depressing read about his experiences being incarcerated for tax fraud and how broken the UK prison system is. It is no wonder the re-offending rates are so high.

I'm guessing much of the US system (where I understand a lot more for-profit private companies are involved) is at least as broken.
I think people that do psychedelics to an extreme degree, like Cary Grant it seems, are probably self treating or self medicating in some way. That’s different from experimentation, or recreation. Makes me wonder about shamans, and the cliche that psychiatrists have more mental health problems than the average person.
Users have no ownership of anything YouTube. They view YouTube at the pleasure of Google, and Google can yank that away or gate it however they see fit.

So there is no extortion, because Google is not damaging anything that belonged to the user in the first place.

And this is setting aside the assumption that most users are adblocking within Google Chrome.
I think they would stop pushing so hard to break encryption if the people sitting next to them in cafes started live-tweeting the politicians' internet traffic.
The article says: "The cost of that relief is ultimately borne by taxpayers."
The contract that gets you the gift will absolutely specify a minimum time you must spend there to earn it. Visibly set a timer, and when it goes off, get up and leave.
Perhaps quantization with 4 bits is a special case of what I meant.

With 4 bits you have 16 different weight values but these values must not be quantized. They could be anything provided gradient descent is possible. Have some combination of binary operations instead of mathematical operations. What these operations do exactly, does not really matter, as long as gradient descent/backpropagation stays possible.

In other words, the model will find a way to use the weights correctly.
If there is a personal income tax, then yes, there shouldn't be any corporate tax at all. It doesn't make sense. It's just double/triple taxation then. Money is only ever useful to a human at the end of the chain. Corporations and any other legal entities are fictions we create. There's no point taxing these intermediaries as long as every individual is being taxed on their income.
Ask HN: Does Starship mean that data centers will soon be in orbit?
So, I've just been reading this HN link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38227463) and it got me wondering about near-term profitable use cases for Starship.

Would it be possible to move data centers into space? Would it be cost effective? It would be better for the planet from a climate change point of view but how practical is it? How many servers could you fit on board Startship? Maybe it would be better to send the raw material (silicon/graphene whatever) into orbit and do the manufacture there. How cool would it be to buy Raspberry Pi's made in orbit. Most manufacturing is already done by robots. Why not in space? I guess if Musk is fully focused on going to Mars, shipping servers into orbit will be the last thing on his mind but what if Amazon or the NYSE moved their servers into orbit? Would everyone follow?

If getting into orbit is no longer the key technical challenge, whats the next biggest challenge to putting data centers in space? All communication between the data centers and earth (as well as each other) would be laser/light speed. That's got to be a solved problem, right? But what about heating, cooling, solar power? Any guesses as to how long it will take for this to happen?

Just thought I'd ask.
The likelihood that one particular group will ransom more than a handful of times decreases exponentially as LEO becomes more interested.
But, haven't the gimp team been working on refactoring/modularization of all of the tools? I think this is part of an effort to modernize. I haven't been keeping up with it but I think I read this several years ago. They stated in 2018 "GIMP 3.0 will be relying on GTK3, a much newer version of the toolkit." not sure if that ever happened?

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/01/02/gimp-and-gegl-in-2018/
It’s been a mixed bag for me.
Sometimes the responses are still wordy, especially when you hit one of the “As an AI…” gates
You can define one at the language level, e.g. Error(“not initialized“). Does it make sense? Perhaps not. Would it work? Perhaps.
Sure, but not essential or nearly not essential for you does not mean it isn’t essential.
> Stop whining, be happy about what you have.

I'm not whining, but I do think you should try to understand why people end up the way they do because it's almost never as simple as them being a bad person from the get go.

Attitudes like yours aren't helpful and we could make society a far safer place if we could identify problems earlier in people's lives and intervene.
Not particularly. Pure nicotine in and of itself is significantly less addictive than the form presented in a cigarette. Modern big tobacco has managed to create an incredibly nasty and addictive chemical slurry in a stick, with acetaldehyde, ammonia, MAOIs, and a bunch of other chemicals which significantly increase the addictiveness of nicotine.

Gwern has noted the same in his post:

> Wikipedia summarizes Guillem et al 2005 as “Technically, nicotine is not significantly addictive, as nicotine administered alone does not produce significant reinforcing properties” - the addictiveness coming from MAOIs (eg. Khalil et al 2000, Khalil et al 2006) & possibly other compounds present in tobacco
OK, then I'm going to go with "doesn't sound true"...
I personally would. Corporations are not people and shouldn't be treated as such. Taxing personal income after receiving dividends or salary seems like a much better option all-around.
It does. It has a slight burning sensation on the gum (salt?) and has an earthy / spiced flavour.

You don't taste it much unless you consume beer/coffee/water at the same, but if so the right brands and combinations can be quite pleasant.

They also make menthol ones.
Considering that this pollutes the air we breathe and releases sequestered carbon, might I suggest interring trimmed brush deep enough to not burn but shallow enough to feed roots as it decomposes into the soil rather than air.

Obviously this entails some effort spent, but it seems correct, versus the old burning practices.

Might I suggest that at human current scale we can’t pursue the same ways as when we were few and low footprint per capita?
Because we have to use sound waves instead of radio waves. But the article is mostly about satellite based gravimetric mapping techniques which are fundamentally low resolution.
This is the problem with skipping through things like this - you missed the part about real world chrome performance. It’s okay to be happy with 8gb, but it doesn’t mean you are right. Ignorance may be bliss but try not to spread it
Kazakhstan. Probably banned by the server together with Russian IPs.
Seems like a very niche market - I think they may have increased their supply a little too much.
It's great your ability to judge risk and reward at age 17 was so solid, but for many it is not. Brain development does not stop that early. I think the difference in culpability between a bad decision at age 17 and say, a bad decision at age 23 is huge.
This might sound like an obvious solution for repeat criminals, but this would start an arms race between police and criminals, who have nothing to lose.

It's as if people don't understand how deterrence actually works and instead go with a simplistic "the tougher the punishment, the better".
A good old-fashioned Debt Jubilee. There's definitely historical precedent.
I'm surprised that this comment gets slightly more upvotes. I want to clarify one thing: I'm not saying apple is the good guy. Apple and google are 2 monster companies. As a user I want them to fight. That's the only way we can reduce the harm done by these monster companies.

However web developers go one side: the google side. Reason? They can do half the work and get twice the money. What a gain! They sell the web to google for their dirty money.
I'm just bummed I was left out from the recent Beanie Baby movie and the the documentary that came out a while back. I was easily the biggest, most ridiculous vendor in the world. Even Ty (the owner) tried to bribe me out of existence.

I have picked up a lot of stories over the years. Like the time the Secret Service were after me thinking that I was trying to assassinate Bill Clinton o_O
I would add to this the importance of listening to be part of this approach. I used to work at a company with a couple thousand engineers. My team was 20 or so people at the time and our dev environment was constantly breaking. It was not unusual for me to spend more than a full day each week trying to get my dev environment working and unable to do any development on what I was supposed to be doing. And that was common across the whole team. We had 1 to 2 senior engineers working close to full time on improving the situation, communicating with the team who maintained the dev environment and finding workarounds for our requirements, but often in a week or two those workarounds would stop working as the devops team made more changes. To be fair, the devops team was actively working towards creating a new dev ecosystem and our team had some dev needs that were not needed for most (maybe any?) of the rest of engineering. So they kept breaking our workarounds, we would be told we shouldn't be doing things that way anyway so it wasn't their fault, but also there wasn't an officially supported way to do what we absolutely needed to do to do our work.

Eventually the situation got escalated up the chain and the director came to our site to look into the situation. I was hopeful that that would lead to some improvements but when he was introduced to the team and gave a little speech it basically boiled down to "back in my day engineers would get their hands dirty and figure things out, maybe as a company we've become too lazy and expect other teams to fix things for us" - i.e. "you guys need to stop being lazy and figure it out yourselves". We were pissed. Fortunately the management chain was able to get him to understand the situation and he assigned one of the main devops guys to work with us to make sure our needs were met going forward. He never even apologized to us, I think he just decided it would be better to disappear and let things settle (we worked in a satellite city and he was at the main office so this was the only time many of us had ever interacted with him).
Contrariwise in English/German you have names like Michael which are the same name but pronounced quite differently.
Yep. This is one of the major reasons I've held off on buying any riscv hardware. Everything I've seen has not had the 1.0 vector extension.
You just need to be at the ticket gate with anyone you purchased a ticket for. Not ideal, but better than our current dysfunction.
The one thing I can say is that fuzzy search like IntelliJ is a really good interface for experienced workflow. Maybe an AI fuzzy search would help with discoverability.
Vercel's website (vercel.com) is just MIND-BLOWING. Like if y'all know their develop.preview.ship. animation, it was nuts. How do people even think of such things!
try out Rider, you'll love it
They're trying. And I appreciate that. Unfortunately it's still on-going in 2023.
> Netflix Web app is best viewed on Chrome anyway

Literally no it isn't. It gets higher resolution content and HDR in Edge and Safari.

(Although Netflix do not support browser access on mobile at all.)