skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many plastics are known endocrine disruptors. They mimic estrogen and their exact effects on the human body are unknown. But because of the nature of plastics, the don't decompose but just break down into smaller and smaller pieces. They find microplastics everywhere they look. In the Mariana Trench and on Mt Everest[1], and in 90% of table salt tested[2]. One recent study says the average person consumes about a credit card sized amount of microplastics every year[3]. While we're not certain it's dangerous, there are a lot of reasons to be very concerned

Edit: And just To make it clear, in my mind the danger is just about certain. I'm speaking conservatively with my claims, but I really believe this is a large concern. Especially for developing kids and teens.

1- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-pol...

2- https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/dist.... (Amp to get around reading limit;)

3-https://qz.com/1644802/you-eat-5-grams-of-plastic-per-week/
Even rather old Model S cars charge at over 300A at a supercharger station. 450A is not a stretch at all.

I admit I’m rather impressed that the connectors can handle this amount of current, but they don’t seem to have a problem with it.
Hudson's Bay has been on a long slow decline for the past 2 decades. Although their flagship stores have held on reasonably well for a while, their non-flagship stores were damn near empty in the mid-2000's.

It's a bit of a shame since for smaller town in Canada, the Bay is often an anchor store for a mall. There aren't great "department stores" left, so when the Bay goes away, smaller towns are going to be a bit stuck (outside of ordering online).
> How do they evaluate the drug?!?

Personal data about a (particular) patient should be possesed only by that patient and probably their doctor. The party distributing drug doses knows "<patient UUID> care of <doctor's post office box> is recieving <experimental/placebo>", but doesn't know who the patient is and ideally shouldn't even know which doctor they're mailing it to. The evaluators (plural) each recieve "patient with <age/sex/preexisting conditions/etc> equal to <value> <improved/worsened> <a lot/a little/not detectably>", with each evaluator bucketing and adding up the data for their particular trait (eg "18-25-year-olds did this well, 25-40-year-olds did this well, etc"). The company that has a obvious conflict of interest (incentive to corrupt the trial results) shouldn't be involved at all besides shipping a crate of medication to the dose distributer.

In practice things wouldn't be quite as strictly compartmentalized as they in principle should be, but if the patients' personal infomation is ever all present in one place to get 'stolen', your healthcare system is so fucked up it's not even funny.

(Note, preemptively, that I am not claiming that your healthcare system is not so fucked up it's not even funny. I'm making normative claims here, not descriptive ones.)
Here's an open source alternative (actually a huge improvement to how most people do frontend tests) I put together a while back: https://github.com/testfront-io/testfront-devtools (See also https://www.testfront.io/ for an actual description of how it works, but don't bother signing up.)

I'm really bad at marketing/getting the word out, and google took forever to approve the extension so I lost interest. I made it because I hate manually writing E2E tests like with Cypress.

Maybe if others show interest in it, I'll be motivated to resume the plans I had for it.
> Are they unaware of how big an expense this would be for all of their insurers?

Yes but they think the likelihood of such events happening is nil. If it did occur and they had to pay-out for all the electronics of all their customers, then they'd simply refuse to pay. If they got taken to court and they were forced to pay, then they'd declare bankrupty and it would be a government problem then.

Insurance is great for limited disasters/issues. For wide-ranging systematic issues, insurance is a scam because they simply cannot make all their customers whole. Just like banks are great as long as everyone doesn't cash out. If everyone decides to cash out, then banks start to look scammy.
Why point the tax specifically at bottles and not other plastics? Does the plastic used in bottles have some special chemical property that makes it more harmful to the environment?
Weird things happening when viewing on an iphone - the popup extended beyond the viewport in portrait mode, tilting to landscape caused it to collapse down to only show the button?

Neat idea though, I’ve slogged through more than one walkthrough and they’re always a pain.
> If Firefox had bigger marketshare, that breakage would magically turn into bugs in the broken websites.

... which is probably why Firefox-with-resistFingerprinting doesn't have bigger marketshare.

Mr. Chicken, meet Ms. Egg.
Not really. The actual load on the engine when redlining it while stationary is very small. You can monitor the fuel injector duty cycle, air flow mass or the useful "Load" PID using an OBD scanner like Torque.
No, I'm not dismissing dog-whistling as a term. What I'm saying is that this is not the case here and you're making it up as a desperate attempt to rationalize what GoFundMe have done.
Microsoft could block dodgy kernel drivers while still allowing game stores ... These are not inherently related.

I think OP is aware that competing music apps are allowed. They're making an analogy about banning competing app stores, just because itunes is good doesn't mean we don't want competition ... the same concept applies.
Hey.com is a different approach to email, and subscription based so you aren't paying with your data.
Nope. Suppose that say, state #16 and state #416 are in fact identical. Well then this machine does not halt, as of course being in this state leads back to the same state again in just four hundred moves, state #17 and #417 and so on will be the same too.

The notional paper tape might have identical states, but if this happens in a machine that does eventually halt the rest of the machine state must be different, and these are both state that a universe must keep in order to instantiate the machine.
Trusted Search
Probably need a bigger apartment. Small studio-like apartments are mostly a place for people to lay their head down to rest before going back out into a city to live the rest of their daily life. Not really a place where one could hunker down for extended periods of time.
... in gopherspace. And maybe using finger. You can use ytalk for chat.
I like K8s too, especially for a service oriented architecture, but there’s tonnes of other deployment targets out there. I’d bet the overall percentage of server side software running on K8s is in the single digits, thought that’s a pure wild ass guess. Hours ago I just finished debugging an outage where requests to one K8s service, through K8s ingress, slowed down 10x after an insignificant deploy, and then we cycled the pods (without changing the code) and it sped up again. No idea why - K8s is complex, and many ppl choose not to take on that complexity. TONNES of people like being able to deploy a single executable to their servers, it’s part of Go’s popularity, part of the popularity of fat jars in Java land (and those still need a JVM!), etc.

As for CLIs, the Deno executable overhead is about 47 MBs. Not nothing, but also ... that’s like a few extra seconds of download time for the tool, and insignificant disk space when people have hundreds of GBs on their laptops. If I’m writing some sort of command line tool, the tool being 50 MBs bigger probably does nothing to hurt adoption. But it having zero external dependencies WILL help adoption, vs. npx and screwing around with proper node versions and whatnot.
I had to break it to a teen with epilepsy whose goal in life was to be a pilot, "The FAA medical will reject you, but maybe you can work in an FBO or other aviation business." (He wasn't interested in flying a desk.)

In aviation, anything related to loss of consciousness (LoC) is automatically disqualifying. You can get a special issuance for most other health problems (cancer, high blood pressure, sometimes diabetes) but they have to be under control. DUIs are also taken very seriously now.

One of the most alarming stories was when a Florida regional jet pilot who drank too much Mountain Dew (caffeine) and had a heart race event, causing him to cancel a flight. FAA medical raked him over the coals with batteries of tests. Don't know if he got his medical back. So don't Red Bull and fly!

Note that FAA medical waivers for corona may not apply to insurance requirements:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/march/31/f...
My personal desktop. For repeatability.
Puppeteer is Chromium-specific though.
That adds more time since the query is sent to DDG and then bounces the browser to Google. For searches where one prefers Google, using it directly (which is easier in Firefox for me) is a better option.
A bad car part can absolutely cause your car to crash, much more than a malicious app on iOS, which may not even be able to access your photos or messages.
No, not on the host. The containers run on the host and provide the environment. They are isolated from the host.
> Additionally, there has recently been a lot of investment into EV chargers with built-in batteries

Two such chargers:

https://freewiretech.com/products/dc-boost-charger/

https://insideevs.com/news/398348/eon-volkswagen-fast-chargi...
Ah, I'll retract my argument then. Sorry for the inaccuracy!
Several modern cars are actually moving in the direction of gaining more and more central control competitively.
Last year we had to remove the fuse in the car battery for maintenance, and also because the battery needed a little cleaning - while we were in a remote village with no access to proper internet connection.
Little did we know that after re-inserting the same fuse back to the battery, the media system would stop working.
The media LCD screen started showing a "Enter the pin to unlock the media system" screen! And we do not have the pin, we were never given a pin.
Hence we lost access to the car GPS and media system altogether in an unknown territory.
We somehow got back to home and had to book an appointment with the car dealership for the technician to unlock our car media system!
He plugged his device and generated the pin that's signed/paired with our specific car and then used it to unlock the media system.

It is indeed scary that even car manufacturers are moving towards central control of every little thing in your car.

The last thing I want to see with all these tech companies following Apple's footsteps in a lot of things, is to see the auto industry becoming like Apple.
So, plastics are the actual "soy" right wingers were talking about.
is this only front-end testing or also back-end?
I appreciate the reply. I’ve given reasons in other responses that (it seems) the way to address this is to address poor waste management practices. That they’re the problem, not plastics per se.
Different senses of the word "state". Such a machine could have fewer state-machine states than steps, but the overall state of the machine (including all its auxiliary storage) must never repeat, or it's in a loop and will never terminate. And BB machines must terminate, by definition.
The same thing happened to me, but the only difference was I didn't do anything close to illegal. In the late 90s I made a massively multiplayer online drug dealing game. At its peak there were about 3M daily active users. I went through a few shared hosting companies as I learned to optimize and scale the stack. One of them cut me off, stole all the source code, and launched their own copy of the game. I couldn't afford to bring legal action against them. Eventually I had my own co-located servers in one of google's old datacenters in San Jose, and had everything humming smooth. The game was free, but I charged $1/mo for "premium" features that basically just let you skin your character or start a gang. No "pay to win" stuff... just gravy. I had direct payments from Visa and Mastercard, as well as PayPal that included Discover and AmEx I think.

I got accused of running an actual drug marketplace. The DEA contacted me to let me know they were alerted of the claims, but after an investigation determined (fairly obviously) that it was just a game, and let me know that they enjoyed it, and many of the agents in their office were actively playing. A month later PayPal cut me off, seized all of my funds (that I have still not gotten back), and shortly after that my direct merchant accounts with Visa and MasterCard were cut off. Lesson learned. America's financial institutions are corrupt.
excited for what?
The most important part of this article in my opinion is the Japanese government involvement. Not sure why but Japan has a tendency to fulfill their promises given that their government really wants it to happen (forget about cars, just look at ACs and pneumatics). Maybe because their engineering culture is heavily data driven that gives them the advantage (at a price of execution speed)?
I can't understand at all what the problem with that is. "Ridiculous stunts?" They changed the name. So what? This is your example?
I often forget that everything and anything that Google does is to sell ads
I have a history of depression and ADHD, and I take (two different) meds for them and regular therapy for the depression. I’m also looking for jobs right now and I see this voluntary self-identification question all the time. It states it won’t hurt me, and I think it usually mentions they want to know so that they can report that they hire x% of people with disabilities.

So far I’ve always answered “no” because I feel like this is one of those things that shouldn’t hurt my chances, but in practice will. Either on purpose (manager passing me for someone “normal” and making up some other excuse if questioned) or cause of subtle bias (manager seeing yes and jumping to conclusions subconsciously).
> The issue is that Google can unilaterally kill or make other businesses through their search.

I don't see how this answers my statement. Of course they can, it's their platform. I'm sure MS pushes their new browser on bing. There's another thread open today where people have listed a ton of alternates so one can de-google. I did it 2 years ago, it's been fine. Apple Maps is much better than it used to be, bing is better than it used to be. Lots of email options.
Several paragraphs of emotional appeal attempting to support a jealousy tax that would be easily avoided and ineffective. Pass.
Modern open source operating systems vs. modern software development practices
Try marketing of software and tech solutions.Many CEOs and VPs and senior VPs are ignoramus .They exist by semantics and jargons sprayed in meetings.Practically they are all sheepish zeroes.
Yeah I feel the same, I broke an achilles and had a full reconstruction (where they steal a muscle/tendon from your big toe and you sort of have to learn to walk again, teach that muscle to do something different), I can happily walk, but I'll probably never run.

While was doing all the operations and recovery/physio/etc I had a disabled driving permit, couldn't walk a block on crutches, but gave it up once I could walk again, there are people who need those spots more than me.

I think that disability is a continuum, I've certainly moved around within that, it could be anyone, it could be you or me (I stood in a hole crossing the road, watching the traffic rather than my feet) mostly I guess we should push against there being stigma, acknowledge that disability is normal, and making sure that those with more extreme disabilities get the support they need so we can all take part in society equally
This is a pretty bad article.

Their expert isn't: "Butler, at the University of Florida, said making an IP address that appears to come from elsewhere isn't that complicated."

And the legal analysis is weak, but that's apparent from the title: "Experts: evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy"

Yes, search warrants are to search for evidence. If the evidence wasn't flimsy they'd have had an arrest warrant.

It offers as a defense that there were no damages.

"What (Jones) did, didn't cause any damage," she continued. "Normally you don't see prosecutors prosecuting for computer crimes something that didn't cause any harm... it seems to be a very sketchy use of discretion to try to use this very serious statute against somebody who didn't cause any harm to your systems."

But it neglects to recognize that the damaging act is the message, and whatever actions or defamation it may cause, not the stolen CPU time.

It quotes the EFF to say that an IP alone isn't good evidence, "It's a thin read to just use the IP address, and it's one that we really, really discourage," said Cindy Cohn, the EFF's executive director. But it misses that they had an IP and it coincided with a small set of people who had access and motive.

They note that the police had an IP, but no linkage of IP/customer/date. This does allow challenging the warrant, but doesn't make it instantly null and void.

It says "Cybersecurity and digital rights experts also said the fact that the emergency system in question relied on a shared user name and password further complicates the case."

No, it doesn't. Fired people are not authorized users. And they have an IP address which points to a specific one of those users, so that's not complicated.

It then attempts to conflate misuse of data with unauthorized access of the system at all by claiming that this case is similar to Van Buren v. United States which is about a police officer using his authorized access to do something which was forbidden.

I have no opinion about the case but this article is trying to give me one. Not facts, it just wants to skip straight to opinions.
Every language or tool is initially a niche. It doesn’t follow that everything niche is good.
In theory if you state you are disabled, then you can also get additional assistance from the company in the form of "reasonable accommodation". As a simple example, if you are in a wheelchair, you should have (by law) access to bathrooms and any other facility you'd expect to have access to at work.

The thing is though, a wheelchair is a very easy example - it's obvious and it's understandable how acommodation can help. But when it's an invisible thing, like a cognitive issue, or hearing loss or chronic pain, it's a lot harder to address. It's easy to say "we will put in a ramp for you" for someone in a wheelchair. Not so much for the more "abstract" disabilities that aren't visible.
Me for the last 8 years. Sometimes it's difficult, but I'm trying to outsource tasks to some freelancers when it's possible.
The Pigeonhole Principle (By Examples)
Thanks so much for sharing the above, I really loved the thesis and approach.

Fully agree to the process, delegating tasks is a bandaid approach that still has bottlenecks
In other words “why do what you love when you can be a well paid company man?”
I recommend checking r/degoogle subreddit which is more comprehensive.

https://teddit.net/r/degoogle
Looking at the bundle now is not going to give you insight into the problems in the Uber app 4 years ago. Also you’re looking at the uncompressed install size, which was not the problem (over the air compressed download size was the limiting factor). Strings files are extremely compressible, encrypted binaries are not (Apple has done some work in subsequent years to make them more compressible but back then they were basically uncompressible).
> That they finally fulfilled a big part of their mission statement and got the biggest (single) Auto Manufacture to develop the battery tech to pivot their entire lineup to EV.

Toyota has shipped fifteen million battery-powered cars and they started two decades before Tesla. I seriously doubt they were adrift until Tesla finally inspired them.
This is great. I think I saw it a few months ago too. I love how simple everything is, but still provides all the functionality I would need. The text and buttons are way too small, though, and I always have to squint at the expanding options because they're so small and low contrast.
I'll consider Google alternatives when there is a better alternative. Until then I use the best technology. Do we really need these same posts every other week?
That’s the ampacity of wire, field-installed in conduit, per the NEC. This isn’t directly relevant to things in cars. Here’s a table that may be more relevant:

http://www.ecswire.com/mmspecs/Specsheets/Belden/leadWireSel...

So you don’t actually need so big a cable. You also wouldn’t normally be using MV cables for a car charger — getting 15kV safely through a car charger terminal sounds like an interesting challenge. But 450A at 1kV doesn’t sound like a particularly big deal.

Keep in mind that there’s potentially a free factor or 2 available. I don’t know how actual DC chargers work, but I imagine you could supply -1kV and 1kV relative to ground without too much trouble, resulting in effectively 2kV while only operating at 1kV relative to ground. AIUI you trigger rather more onerous NEC rules if you get to much higher voltages relative to ground.
Why are you also mentioning Cloudflare? (What's wrong with them?)
Oh I worked on titles in that era too, and on other oddball platforms like the PSP :).

Without getting into the weeds too much you just weren't doing much with the single CPU core on the PS3. As soon as you booted anything of note it was pretty obvious that you'd have to offload to the SPUs. I'm not saying that it wasn't more work, but most of the other teams we talked with who had done PS3 as a baseline first had a much, much easier time of it.

I would say that any console/handheld developer the approach wasn't unfamiliar, but there were certainly a fair number of engines with roots in the PC space that had a rough time of it. That said it was more down to the SPUs than anything related a unified memory architecture(although we did do some fun shenanigans around streaming music back from VRAM to the CPU to give us more system memory headroom).
according to this other article:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33435923/toyota-solid-sta...

toyota has a solid state battery that has a low cycle lifetime. it sounds like they need a breakthrough, thus the tentative, low volume production target for 2025.
The pricing model changed a few months ago for the worse, IMO. And Migadu just gave one month’s time for users to switch from the previous free tier (with a footer ad) to a paid tier. During a worldwide pandemic with debilitating effects on many people, this was a move that wasn’t thought through. I’d personally not trust Migadu to care much for customers based on trying it in the past and seeing this move unfold.
Its sort of like selenium testing. It tests the frontend which ends up sending real requests to the backend so if the backend fails the frontend will too.
Apple is now building the chip it needs to ditch Qualcomm like it ditched Intel
If you use your own domain for email, you can change host anytime you want, pretty nice.
Your argument is technically true, but so misleading that I must conclude you are arguing in bad faith. Pornhub has far less illegal content than platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Illegal content is an issue all user generated content sites face, and these payment processors actions are the result of a puritanical anti-porn campaign.
These are good if you're seeking to replace a single Google product, but if you're invested in the Google ecosystem it's a real pain in the ass to stitch together 15 individual alternative products. It sucks.