skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compelling article. Definitely raises real problems deserving of scrutiny; technical, legal, and administrative. I was a little bothered that this is just a direct reprinting of a single (admittedly deep and well-rounded) anecdotal experience, with no input from subject matter experts or independent attempts to contact other tenants.

I sent the article to a friend who’s a hydrogeologist and environmental remediation consultant. Basically, the guy that cleanup companies send to assess these sites, take samples, and make remediation plans. His hot take:

“Based on the info in the article alone I’d be very surprised if soil or groundwater VOCs were getting into her unit in concentrations high enough to cause acute health effects. Sounds like there’s a vapor venting system installed which in my experience alleviates all indoor air concerns. It could be that it exhausts near her window or something and concentrates in her apartment, but that would be a design/architectural issue more than an environmental issue per se. My initial suspicion would be that she bought cheap furniture or there’s cheap carpets or something that are offgassing VOCs.”

A quick read from a single expert isn’t enough to draw conclusions, but I do wish the paper had bothered to seek that kind of input before publishing.

Whatever the cause of this person’s symptoms may be, inadequate environmental remediation is a very real problem that deserves our concern. I wish the comments in this thread focused more on that. Instead the primary debate is whether a single person with apparently serious symptoms but no expertise, resources, or authority made the right technical call after being ignored by the people with all the expertise, resources, and authority. IMO that is the real story here: a person bought (a) furnishing for (b) a condo on a plot of (c) remediated land, experienced a health crisis, and the relevant parties (that she’s paying rent and taxes to!) all seem to have ghosted her instead of investigating which of those 3 things was the problem. After an experience like that, how could you blame her for doing her best to collect evidence and draw her own conclusions?

Even if the cause she identified is wrong, it’s not imagined. This isn’t “cancer from cell towers” or “migraines from wind turbines”. You just won’t read an article from the victims of industrial pollution in Bayview/Hunter’s Point.
>At a press conference Sunday morning, DeSantis said officials are pumping out 33 million gallons of water a day from the pond, and that the water "is not radioactive," although another official added that the water is "not water we want to see leaving the site."

Maybe the title needs to be changed.

Edit:

>Phosphogypsum is the "radioactive waste" left over from processing phosphate ore into a state that can be used for fertilizer, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

I guess the article has conflicting information.
- Having something to say at all.

Yes. Most bloggers. A full screen of infodump about themselves and what they were doing, then, perhaps, just perhaps, some content. Too often, just enough content to maximize clicks.

- Bad craftsmanship.

That's a teachable skill. Merely writing many words is not enough. Someone must criticize them. Back when journalism had copy editors, many writers learned their trade as newspaper reporters.

- Just whatever you do, write.

And if no one is reading it, please stop.
I wonder if there would be a market for a cloud-synced, client-side-encrypted address book app for say $1/month.
yes, but it'd be the ISPs storing the internet history
This reads like an Asimov story! He really did have some very well informed predictions that seem accurate even nowadays.
I think their analogy may still hold.

My mom claims her cooking is better than the restaurants (arguable) but she's not operating under the constraints of cooking at the variety, consistency and speed that my local diner does. The diner needs to be able to provide hundreds of dishes on short order including on days when the main chef is out. So maybe my mom's once-in-a-while pot of chilly is great but she couldn't run scale to run a profitable diner.

Similarly, sounds like you are hand crafting awesome websites on your own whim and schedule. That's awesome - me too - and I've done amazing handcrafted HTML/js/css for fun.

And then I go to work and manage an organization whose front-end experiences are decidedly not hand crafted and I feel great about that. Our product helps people navigate one of the most important decisions of their life and and sacrificing our ability to iterate quickly at the expense of hand crafted front-end code would be the wrong call. Like my mom's chilly it wouldn't scale.

You'd look at my work product and say "ugh what a badly crafted website" and I'll take the criticism but I wouldn't change it.
What's the best way to hook this up to a Matrix / Element client? Does anyone have a bridge ready?
When I was getting my engineering degree too many significant figures would earn you -2 pts.
I like what I'm seeing in Web Component technology, but it's not fully there for me yet.

Suppose your base Design System is web components. Most Microfrontend (MFE) teams will still pick up an off-the-shelf React, Vue, Angular, etc.

But VDOM and web components don't always play nicely. If you have Parent-Child web components, specifically 1 parent with N-immediate children, React can't resolve this gracefully. Every render past the first breaks with Stencil. That's a pretty significant issue, because (very) common components like Select dropdowns are modeled as 1 parent with N immediate children.

So you can't any longer stay in React's declarative model. The workaround (last comment in issue) has you writing imperative code to fix the problem.

It has that "using D3 in React" vibe to it. It works, but it's not nearly as elegant as if you had, say, a React-based Design System (but then, of course, all your MFE teams must use React).

https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil/issues/2259

Users have also reported the same analogous issue exists for using Web Components in Vue too, so it's not even a React-specific shortcoming.

https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil/issues/2259#issuecomme...
Have you actually read the whole SCOTUS decision? Because that's not at all what it said.
I don't want to get into that kind of argument, but if you've been in python for a while you can probably think of people.
My worst experiences in the web come from mobile media (news) sites where I can’t block ads. They are absolute dumpster fires.

Everything else, including the aforementioned sites when ads are blocked, is pretty decent in my experience.
You're right, I forgot about Windows 8. Still, the story doesn't change much, there was a huge pushback...
Most data centers with the reviews these guys have would not last. This one is able to find a market because despite everything bad they do, there's a strong market demand to overcome ridiculous DMCA, GDPR, and other internet regulations. They can be a shitty service provider in every conceivable way, but because they are able to exist in a void instigated upon us by bad legislation, they can continue on in a way others cannot.

I doubt many here would defend the way the business is being run. But misguided attempts at regulating the internet at the legislative level gives rise to these kinds of problems in the market. I am sure many here are simply sick of seeing this play out again and again. Just like how drug prohibition gave rise to international drug cartels, internet content regulation gives rise to data centers that flaunt those rules.
Please stop sharing lines of code on medium.com
The average linux / firefox user will appreciate you for not sharing any code on medium.com.

Whenever a word or line of code is selected the comment/tweet button shows up and your selection will disappear.
> Amazon pages are a cluttered mess

Ahh, you want "clean" design where maybe there is just one box with beautiful font and not all these options "cluttering" things. You want those options buried in an option tree maybe 8 levels deep.

Well, I'm pretty sick of this minimalist design philosophy that requires 10x more clicks to accomplish anything because a designer decided the original was just too easy to use and wasn't "engaging enough" to generate enough clicks. They have made the web a much worse place for getting stuff done online, and it's no wonder that Amazon, the home of one-click purchasing, has continued optimizing for having the UI get out of your way and accomplish the most with the least effort rather than building attention-seeking UI "experiences" that require lots of interactivity to get simple things done.
There is no big distinction to be honest.
Companies effectively run the government, via the 2 party system and the back and forth of high level corporate execs back and forth into gov't. They don't want to rock the boat once that bountiful position is achieved. That said, how to get the government to regulate corporations who regulate the government. Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but there has to be an externality like the great depression in order for The People to take back the reigns of power (at least in the US).
Soon after Web banner ads appeared, researchers discovered that users quickly learned to tune them out.

Sometime after that (after clumsy false starts), what used to be advertising people took over the nature of the Web.

HCI and human factors engineering (i.e., technology in service of the user's goals) was largely forgotten, and UX (i.e., technology in service of the developer) was born.

Be skeptical of most UX you've seen, since much of what we're now taught, much of what tools/platforms are available, much of what the jobs are... are now generations away from the needs of users. If you want to genuinely serve the needs of users, question everything, including all the implicit and explicit conventions of your field.

Product concept and design are in some ways harder than they used to be, since, e.g., users' conceptual models, fashion, and available platforms/technologies have been shaped by a pervasively user-hostile and manipulative environment. But, as designers, you still have a lot of leeway to operate creatively within that. Question everything.
I've actually had terrible success getting help through the official channels: it's why I asked.
Andrew's Faith in the USD
I can only think that modern power generation systems have failed. There are so many advances in power generation in the last 100 years - from nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, and even biothermal. Yet when I look around all there are so many dirty combustion engines and coal power plants spewing greenhouse gasses and toxic fumes.

Both statements are moronic. Taking advantage of modern design philosophy, modern CDNs, modern framework - all of that takes time, attention and MONEY. If you don't put in the investment in all of these, the fact that you have access to "modern frontend development" is meaningless. It's like asking why is not everyone in the world driving Teslas.
Americans talk about race as a proxy for class.
Man I’d love it if our backend teams were that willing to make changes for us. So often I stumble across bizarre, complicated business logic in our various client code bases and ask the devs “why is this here? surely this is better put on the backend/already exists on the backed” and am greeted with “we agree, but when we asked the backend teams to make a change on their end they told us it would be done in the next year or two”.
I think it is okay in this instance as it relates to an output generator (and beautiful output should be a key functionality of such a tool)
"Anyone who is excited about having an Internet connection into their brain needs their head examined."

Perhaps you can have this done with a POST request in the future and kill two birds with one stone.
In California, property doesn't get reassessments unless it's sold. If the owning corporation never sells the land it's taxed based on purchase price forever.

This how we have private golf courses in the middle of Los Angeles and dilapidated shacks adjacent to Google's global HQ.
It doesn't matter where someone comes from when commenting on the internet, you chose to assume racist intentions.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. - HN Guidelines
Did this article ever answer the question?
Great paged.js tutorial, thank you for publishing it.
This. People see one shitty implementation of SPA and put every new tech stack in the same bucket. We live in a golden age of tooling and the front end is right at the front (pun intended).
Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you do differently?
For a while now, I have had an idea of a Reddit-like website with the only difference that it would have a nominal subscription fee. My hypothesis is that even a USD 1 fee would massively reduce the number of bad actors.
> And they do offer Privacy Pass as a sort of
> approach to make it a little less annoying.

The Privacy Pass extension requires, as it mentions when installing it, access to all the data on all websites that you visit. So in order to stop getting so many Captchas, one has to give this company unfettered access to all sites that one visits? Why even bother with an HTTPS connection when the browser is potentially leaking the information away with explicit user consent?

And I don't even use Tor. But every few weeks I'll have a two or three day spat where every webpage that I visit requires at least two captchas to be solved. Maybe another user from my ISP is scrapping, but I'm a good citizen on the 'net.
Keep in mind that there are exactly a grand total of 4 moving parts in a quadrotor drone. This is the core reason for their success, robustness, ease of use and all.

If all quadrotors needed oil, gas, vibrated like crazy (bad for IMUs), had 100+ moving parts (engine, servo gears, etc...), weighted at least 1-2kg, ran super hot and noisy... we would not have had the "drone revolution".
The Wikipedia article on the [Jubilee line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_Line_Extension) doesn't mention hair specifically, but does mention they're to improve airflow, prevent jumping or failing people, prevent litter and dirt circulation. I always imagined it was in preparation for the move to automated lines much like the [Docklands Light Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway) which demonstrated feasibility in 1987 (11 years before Jubilee).
Useless? No. Less efficient? Likely.

I guess they will have to produce an updated version in nearest future.
Because the hardware and software needed to run that system reliably costs more than hiring a bus driver or two. The autonomous system might, in theory, eventually be cheaper to operate, but it isnt now.
I've gotten a new phone number and given it back because of the amount of calls it was getting.
Intel forgot to release graphics drivers for their 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs
Iunno, someone that thinks they’re getting somewhere by calling Zuck directly may not know what a chargeback is.

I know Congress has tried calling upon him and just gave up.
No, just means it's equal but derivative...
Bending the Rules at Piney Point: a 140M dollar mess (2003)
the golden mummies make a statement
Wow cool! I'm sold! Downloading it now. :)
My point is different: I said that true evolution from tables to create the layout, continuos refreshes of the page to update the state, to a better development environment was universally recognized. And if it was again a case of good design, everybody would see it. If many voices are talking about over engineering now I bet there is a reason.
True, I missed that!
I was not aware of prior work so I maintain Alpine wheels for packages I use personally in a GitHub org.

https://github.com/alpine-wheels/index

Besides my own needs, only one other person has requested additional packages, which I was happy to add. Maintenance is minimal, mostly just approving pull requests created by Dependabot.
I mean, yes, but that's not a bad thing. We aren't going to be able to stop catastrophic climate change without authoritarianism.
I'd imagine barely anyone has the job they'd choose; maybe I'm an outlier.

Suppose I'm a doctor/refuse collector, but really wanted to be a ship's captain, am I 'behind'. I guess it's that there's an implicit hierarchy of roles implied .. if I'm ship's engineer, but really want to be engineer, am I 'behind' the captain?

I just don't know what's really meant by this: is it about competitive roles, is it about access, is it about status. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I don't know that the parent means by 'behind'.

It seems all the responses have assumed I did know what they meant and had taken a particular view on it.

FWIW I'm not in the slightest denying that in some countries women/men are excluded from (or find it more difficult to get) some roles for sexist reasons.

I'm aware there are disparities in all areas (in UK), one of the biggest is teaching - very few men are able to get roles in primary (5-11yo) teaching. In other areas it seems you're more likely to get a job if qualified. Where I work women are being offered jobs at about equal rates to men (higher rates of women, actually), but the pool of qualified people is heavily male as women don't choose to take the degrees that feed into that pool. None of this proves anything, except that I know senior management were lauding the offering of more jobs to women, as opposed to just to qualified people regardless of sex [I can't cite this, internal stats, sorry].

I'm interested in your (b) do you have stats to cite on that?
> games and events

Not tied to uni but virtually mandatory to participate in social events. Sure you can just say to simply opt out but then it might be more difficult to socialize.
You write some simple HTML, style it with CSS, and write vanilla JS for the parts that need it, and everything feels solid.

Bootstrap + jQuery on the front end, Flask or similar with CherryPy on the backend. SQLite or Postgres if you need it. That will handle 99.9% of websites, it will be cheap and easy to develop and host, and deliver a great experience to the end user.
Oh that's cool, I'm not looking forward another downgrade like the Spectre one
The captain in this video has also transited the Suez Canal many times and talks a bit about the corruption and bribes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrgh5sJa-A
The president of Argentina has just been diagnosed with Covid, with mild symptoms, after being vaccinated with both doses of Sputnik for over a month or two.
Why the knocks? Is this like some big spoiler? Pretty sure everyone that played Sim City 2000 figured out the bus line thing.
+1 on the apology.
"What about recording your own thoughts and then playing them back to yourself later?"

Oh hell nah, it's enough craziness in real time, I sure as hell don't need to replay that.
Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America
Anton Petrov has a few videos on this
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCciQ8wFcVoIIMi-lfu8-cjQ/sea...
He is one of my favorite youtubers.
This all only works in theory. In reality police in the UK is mostly useless if you tried to report a crime. They won't touch anything unless it gets them PR points or you present all evidence, track the perpetrators and so on and still they may drop it because the judge wouldn't give them time so why bother. It's a problem that media don't talk about.
Should Masking Last Beyond the Pandemic? Flu and Colds Are Down, Spurring Debate
https://www.tor.com/2014/03/25/how-history-can-be-used-in-fi...

> Even costuming accuracy can be a communications problem, since modern viewers have certain associations that are hard to unlearn. Want to costume a princess to feel sweet and feminine? The modern eye demands pink or light blue, though the historian knows pale colors coded poverty. Want to costume a woman to communicate the fact that she’s a sexy seductress? The audience needs the bodice and sleeves to expose the bits of her [that] modern audiences associate with sexy, regardless of which bits would plausibly have been exposed at the time.

> I recently had to costume some Vikings, and was lent a pair of extremely nice period Viking pants which had bold white and orange stripes about two inches wide. I know enough to realize how perfect they were, and that both the expense of the dye and the purity of the white would mark them as the pants of an important man, but that if someone walked on stage in them the whole audience would think: "Why is that Viking wearing clown pants?"
There's no basis for such a lawsuit. You might not like it but they're not breaking the law.
Any Freenode channel can be accessed from Matrix via the official bridge. See Matrix docs for details.
That price is per tree planted and there's not guarantee the tree is going to grow. It's great to plant trees, but even if we could reforest the entire Earth on the good places we'll need other technologies to capture carbon.
I believe this is more generally known as table-driven methods, and I also enjoy using them. They feel more ergonomic than conditional statements, and they're also more flexible—you can dynamically modify the conditions and actions by modifying the data structure which contains them.
How to Use a Pulse Oximeter Correctly – Health Lines
Meet the Martians:
https://mars.nasa.gov/people/?category=mars2020
By not participating, loudly. Easy as that

By taking part you just make this more normal/ok than it really is
Not sure if you're trying to minimize the impact or draw attention to its severity but that is a colossal number.
I mean if you think $65k is the price of air time go for it, but personally this sounds more like Irrational Exuberance and the madness of crowds. For those studying history, we all know how that ends. Market bubbles pop, and BTC is not easily fungible.
Are there any report generation libraries built on top of page.js?

I've been looking for report generation solution based on frontend technology.

Btw. This is great. Thanks for sharing.
That's neither here, nor there.

This is not about whether or not this or that particular song is better, is the top (most listened/streamed/talked about) music in general losing variety in all these aspects (harmony, melody, timbre, lyrics, genres, dynamics, etc).

That's not subjective, that's objective, and has been measured to get worse.

The "subjective experience" could be good, the same way people can prefer McDonalds over a wholesome meal by the best chef. Doesn't mean its also good by other metrics, and I for one don't believe individual taste is everything. There are people with shit taste, loads of them.
HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach
There are alkaline wastes. Steelwork slag, power plant fly ash, residues from concrete production, and, the big one, what's left of bauxite after making aluminum. It's probably possible to build a plant to combine them and get some neutral-pH solid out. Still have a heavy metal problem, though.
When the only tool you know is a hammer you tend to just go around smashing things
I imagine that it's not so much the "nuclear ship" part as much as it is the "nuclear merchant ship" part. Of course you can build big nuclear-powered vessels. But how many governments are willing to part with enough uranium to power such a vessel? Civilian use of nuclear material is extremely restricted and enforcement of maritime law is already something of a problem area due to how international the whole thing is.