skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions to avoid greaseproof carryout food packaging, stain guards, waterproof clothing that uses PFAs, etc. but the problem is so much more than that.

I wrote a paper last year regarding forever chemicals for my work. The US water supply is contaminated with forever chemicals, if you're drinking unfiltered tap water [1], you're likely drinking forever chemicals as well. If you eat /drink animal products, you're likely ingesting forever chemicals. If you use cosmetics, those contain toxic chemicals such as phthalates. If you use plastic containers to store food, the plastic particles leech off into your food. When you take hot showers, you breathe in forever chemicals through the steam as the water is contaminated.

Even thermal paper, which is often used for store receipts, have been shown to increase BPA exposure in cashiers. [2]

All these chemicals are known to increase cancer rates, disrupt hormones, cause birth defects, etc. Is it any wonder that we're seeing increasing rates of cancer, depression, etc?

[1] https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
[2] https://toxicfreefuture.org/handle-with-care-are-cash-regist....
LOL, "House of Wax". If you saw it in the theater when I did, then you and I are very old.
reads this

ponders the front page of her art/comics site

Social proof... social proof... oh hey I have a couple of glowing quotes from Hugo winners for the cover of one of my comics, maybe I should put those on the link to it on the front of my site, too. Thanks, Landing Page Roast Guy.

Maybe next I'll even edit the css so they're not in tiny low-contrast type. Nah. Gotta stay humble.
"Type 'cookie', you idiot."

=)
I still use IE as my default browser (and Firefox as a fallback), for the following reasons:

– The font rendering works better for my eyesight.

– Killer feature: Ctrl+N/K clones the browser window/tab including the history. I.e. you can effectively fork the history. EDIT: And, equally important, opening a link in a new tab/window also preserves (clones) the history.

– Certain keyboard operations have better usability than on other browsers.

– The title bar + address/tab bar height height is smallest among all browsers (after some configuration).

I’m slowly getting used to the inevitability of migrating to Firefox. The font rendering and especially the clone-by-keyboard feature are the hardest part though. (And the fact that Firefox doesn’t allow yellow as a search highlight color.)
Obviously it's a little tongue and cheek but I'm sure people get the point.
If you want a more full scope of the body of studies around cv19 and vitD I suggest checking out this site [0].

I'll honestly never understand how studies like this make front page or top headlines in mainstream news. Even if vitamin D didn't make a difference with covid outcomes, it's still a vitamin many countries are widely deficient in and can only serve to improve many peoples health.

I feel like I've seen more social media posts claiming to show vitamin D isn't effective vs cv19 than the opposite, which is alarming to me. The body of evidence that shows vitamin D working is substantially larger than the studies showing the opposite - and honestly this is a vital vitamin either way! Get your vitamin D levels up people*! It feels like this shouldn't be controversial, but deficiency in first-world countries and posts like these make me wonder.

* obviously it's possible to overdose but that window is incredibly large - you're far more likely to be hurting from too little vitD than too much

[0]https://c19vitamind.com/

this image summarizes the intent of my post pretty cleanly
https://i.imgur.com/ySVX5y0.png for a nice tl;dr;
A list of Physics movies, without mentioning the most accurate depiction of Graduate School? No list is complete without the glory that is Real Genius. "Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/?ref_=tt_ch
From the conversation on this article over on lobste.rs [1]

> This is exactly why I left my last job. First day on the job, I was told I was senior, look for work. Second (or at most maybe third?) day on the job, literally, I was told that I’d stuck in my neck into places it didn’t belong, and to ask first. I then asked where there was an org chart or something so I could know who to ask, and my boss said none existed. So I went into some team chat rooms to ask who owned what, and was then told to stay in my team’s chat room. All of this in the first week or perhaps two, absolute tops.

> ...

> Anyway, I don’t work there now, but those parts of this blog post you highlighted gave me PTSD flashbacks.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/j1gmob/room_where_it_happens_how_rails_g...
I dropped the word “repeatedly” from the title as the full title was 7 chars over the limit.
> "it's pushing us towards greener energy"

It definitely isn't, unless you count anything that uses power as pushing towards green energy which makes no sense.

The only way to incentivize different forms of energy production is by making them more profitable, which has nothing to do with what that power is used for.
How does it make sense to allow scams to do their damage before shutting them down?
Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto
Well, there is, in general - and it works, so long as a preponderance of the participants are well-intentioned, and at least some of them are reasonably well-informed. The author of TFA is being alarmist.
The title should probably be "Genetically predicted serum vitamin D and COVID-19", from the paper title.
Hi, this thing interesting. But the main site is kinda lacking details. If I'm not mistaken, the images cannot be zoomed in, so you cannot actually see what's going on. Plus the site is missing any how to, quickstart, tutorial, basically any info on how to use the thing.
He's arguing that the system should charge him more and his class of citizens more. Why would he arbitrarily pay more if noone else in his cohort is paying more? Doesn't make any sense.

What you are saying is he should make a donation to the US government.
Which for them is like 0,01€ for me.
Parent comment is not kidding: it may be both the worst and best option.

Based on extended discussions with Verizon and T-Mobile management (office execs, not store reps or call reps), this appears to be the only reliable option available to a non-enterprise customer.

Well known flat rate unlimited rural internet resellers of "red", "pink", and "blue" categorically stop working after "abuse" with a threshold set below normal usage that would keep a family online despite software updates (even w/o streaming!).

As a large enough enterprise, I could buy a "data pool" for the firm to get zero rated no throttle for our device fleet. When you hear raves from colleagues about Verizon hotspots, they may be enjoying this -- I sure do for legit work use. But this isn't technically ethical for individuals, and the companies won't offer it to an LLC or S-Corp with just a few lines.

So, with VZ, for example, by getting 4 hotspots configured the same and putting them on rotation, you end up spending about the same per month ($240/mo) as an enterprise hotspot, to get sufficient capacity for normal household software and game updates.
So... are “ceramic” coatings ok? And are we back to styrofoam packaging to be safe?
"expect something you "deserve" to come a quarter or two quarters after you've "earned" it."

... if you get it at all.

You don't earn anything. Pay and promotions are unilaterally controlled by management. They decide who to award promotions or raises to. If it were truly earned, there would be an unambiguous or non subjective set of standards that would definitively say that you deserve, and will recieve, a promotion or raise.

"Frustrated that you havnt been promoted even though you have had all the conversations about getting promoted, your boss agrees you should be, and you consistently perform at that level? Give it 3-6 months and it will probably happen."

I met the same criteria you listed for 2 years. It never came. Now I'm 3 years beyond that and am still a midlevel since I had to switch stacks twice.
We don't even have a centralized authority for x509 in browsers, and that's the closest you come to being correct — there are still many CAs and multiple groups coordinating which of those are trusted, and private CAs are common even up to millions of users.

GPG has been around since the 1990s with the web of trust being entirely decentralized and while I'd be the first to say there is room for improvement there's no way that's anything other than decentralized.
Uh is shutting down in September short notice?

Regardless I looked into the internals/source code for it (I work there) - and it seems to be cold storage for the workbench and not blockchain support as a whole.

Right now it makes more sense to use ConsenSys or manage your own nodes on Azure not pay for a tool.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/service/mi...
Or read Shakespeare.
Yeah, I have heard Primer is hard to follow, and I have no reason to doubt that. It's on my list.
> They're also discontinuing their riflescope line

Wow, that's really disappointing to hear. I shoot Nikon DSLR bodies w/ mostly Nikon and Zeiss lenses, and for target shooting I use Nikon rifle scopes. Their optics have always been top notch for the price point.

I'm really concerned that Nikon may not be able to sustain business operations after the next decade. Their financials haven't been looking so hot. At least for my photography hobby I know there's a robust secondary market, but for things like rifle scopes that's not so much a thing.
There exist several options in about config that let you change some font rendering settings. Have you tried fiddling with them?
"The Andromeda Strain" (1971) still holds up pretty well.
Memes, money and moon – the Dogecoin connection
Transaction fees are also paid to miners, and transaction volume pushes fees up.

This is entirely by design. Satoshi's original Bitcoin whitepaper reads: "Once a predetermined number of coins have entered circulation, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation free."
“That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, You never get rid of the Dane.”

It’s going to be a tough few years being in security in the industrial control field for the next few years.

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.htm...
https://news.bitcoin.com/xthinner-protocol-tested-on-bch-mai...
Curious if you'll be affected by "Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering".

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...

Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858
Have you looked into https://www.mactype.net/ to see if it would help with any of your font rendering issues?
"Also, bitcoins are constantly lost as dust or misplaced private keys or other things. And so the supply shrinks."

No, block rewards are much bigger than dust & lost keys, so supply will keep expanding for a very long time before it shrinks.
> they prioritize blurring the line between user and contributor -- "uplifting" users into contributors as much as possible

Can you explain more about this? How do they uplift?
Fwiw Firefox's "duplicate tab" feature similarly clones history. It only exists for tabs though, not entire windows. Right-click the tab, it's in the context menu.
This may be a hot take, but I have a problem with the way that first article equates "extremely overpriced" with "scam".

A scam is when you've been deceived or defrauded.

If you consent to pay $10 a week for an app that doesn't provide what it claims to, that's one thing, and that should be actionable. But if it does what it claims to, not liking the price does not equate to being a scam.
> A large part of the stability can be attributed to sandboxing. This is what prevents apps from gaining unprivileged access and destabilizing the system. This is the time where relatives will call you.

True

> What you don't see, is all the apps that steal the user's data.

Exactly this. Apple now has policies against fingerprinting etc. which can’t be prevented by sandboxing.

> Curation obviously helps but it's difficult to measure to what extent.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-ove...
I am enjoying the opportunity to separate the libertarians from the corporatists. "Small government! No regulations! Except for the ones that profit me!"
We really don't need more data gathering studies, do the work.
Build Website with ReactJS, Styled-Components and GSAP for Scrolling Animations
Is use-after-free ever really defined behavior?
If you mouse3 on the refresh button in Firefox you get a tab clone with history.
AirTag Used to Successfully Track a Mailed Package Across the UK
I think spoofing will be difficult unless you can dump the key from a specific AirTag (already done, but it's a manual process involving disassembly and advanced skills and equipment).

Replay attacks may be possible, but we will have to wait to see if the protocol is entirely passive. The iPhone could broadcast a challenge to the AirTag and transmit the signed response and response delay. The delay should be fairly tightly bounded.

The AirTags do have a clock as I understand it, but drift is inevitable, so it wouldn't be a tight bound.
I don't understand why you wouldn't be able to, especially given "a million years" to learn whatever you need to learn. Why does it feel inaccessible to you?
Thanks. I did this, we'll see if it works. It's one thing to get junk mail for me, it's another thing to still be receiving credit card offers for a dead man. It makes me wonder how much of the annual credit card fraud is due to things like this and how often deceased person's identities are stolen for fraudulent purposes.
Oliver, props on your business and thanks for the interesting insights. I’m really disappointed in HN today though.
On what basis...?
as far as I can tell, none really good ones exist yet...

the documentation is still scattered. The official website [1] is a good starting point. and I wish I'd seen this [2] earlier (I hope this gets incoporated into the official resources)

[1] https://ziglang.org/learn/

[2] https://www.lagerdata.com/articles/an-intro-to-zigs-integer-...

This is probably the most comprehensive resource:
https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/
Congratulation on shipping! The experience was flawless and quick.

Two things I noticed which I hope you will consider fixing:

- It was trivially easy to expose the user's google/gmail address by typing in a random URL within the user's blog. The 404 page exposes the user's email address. [0] Probably better to have some UUID-email mapping that is secret.

- When I clicked "Delete Account/Blog", the application did not remove itself from Google's "Apps with access to your account" page and was still showing up as an active integration.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PG8Em4S.png
What, you never read all of the man pages on your Linux distro?
If they think they need a gimmick like a Peloton to exercise and be healthy, that's half the problem.
Code to standards and expect the browsers to implement those standards reasonably.

Avoid the bleeding edge to support those held back at LTS versions of common browsers, or if you use new tricks make sure they don't make things unusable on older-but-LTS browsers. Whether you consider IE11 an LTS browser or not is a matter for you to decide (yes, as it will be getting security updates for some time still, or no as it is seven years old, not getting any feature/support updates, and support for it is deprecated by even its own manufacture's apps).

Support accessibility by not using fancy things for the sake of it, and if you do something fancy make at least a little effort to have things degrade gracefully for those with accessibility issues. A lot of sites/apps skip this step, but shouldn't.
There is also evidence of Musk tweeting in favor of doge and then bashing it. Clear evidence of manipulation.
> Gold for your dust, sir. Pearls for your pigs

> I’ve wanted a job like this for so long, I barely even know why I want it anymore. I look at my hands. I can’t tell if they’re mine.

> But also I wanted an office with a number. I wanted a university ID. I wanted access to a fancy library and benefits and students and colleagues and travel money. I wanted the whole stupid kingdom. “And then what?” says my mother. “And then nothing,” I say as I jump off the very top of a fairy tale that has no place for me.

She has such a great way with English.

She is much better off outside of the Ivory Tower, out here, making gifts and hay. Dreadfully, her mother was right.
It is really sad to me to see a comment so naive and uninformed get upvoted on this site. Besides just flat out false information such as being a shortage of use cases for incentivized distributed consensus you go on to assume we have even begun to work out the areas we can now apply to blockchain. It's fine to think cryptocurrency is a hustle. It's not ok to dismiss a large future corner of tech because of it.
If he were a comedian, I believe he would be given more slack (assuming he changed the tenor of his jokes in the intervening years).

As a manager, as someone responsible for others' livelihoods and careers, he has to be held to a much higher bar. Even if it were purely in jest, is it fair to have his direct reports try to figure out the line between what he publicly writes and privately believes?
Ask HN: Best way for SEO to publish blog posts
I already know that putting a blog on a sub-domain is a bad idea. For my site, what is the best way for SEO to publish blog posts:

mysite.com/blog/post.html
OR
mysite.com/post.html

Thank you very much.
> People with a reasonable weight and exercised once a month were never in any danger.

I'm sure you have evidence for this in the populations effected most.

> Sure there are outliers. Healthy people can have complications. That's with any virus though.

That's a neat way to exclude any contradictory data from affecting your assumption.
what or who is Kelly?
Also the standard for PowerShell.
Exposure to sunlight causes quite a lot of different methabolic processes, not just this particular hormone.
Author here! :) No it won't. I was the one who submitted that piece to HN, and the first thing I was worried was how it will break hexo.press.

Apparently, only extensions are affected and hexo.press is a service that uses Google's meta APIs, which are not affected.
If you mean that IE6 represents some common set of baseline features that all other browsers will support this is absolutely 100% false.

IE6 has tons of quirks and nonstandard features, and sites that are truly written specifically for IE6 and target its features (e.g. activex) and numerous css bugs will simply not work or display correctly in any other browsers at all.

Newer versions of IE have to have two separate rendering modes. One of these, "quirks mode," is a non-standard mode that specifically emulates the broken IE6 functionality, because this is the only way to correctly display pages designed for IE6 in a modern browser.

On the other hand, people writing new sites in 2021 that support IE are people who are very concerned with compatibility who are being very careful and using zillions of LOC of pollyfills to ensure the sites work in IE. The sites these people create will work in other browsers not because of any property of IE6, but because the people making them also put a lot of work into ensuring they are compatible with other browsers, and dropping support for IE would save a lot of work without reducing compatibility with other browsers.
Speaking of hammers and software design reminds me of a classic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180924092925/http://discuss.jo...

"Nobody really buys hammers anymore. They're kind of old fashioned."
Defeatist. Some problems take decades and decades or hundreds of years to solve, like slavery. All the more reason to speak up more.
I would add "The Arrival", which I enjoyed a lot (rare for a movie based on a story I love). Even though it dropped the crucial physics reference, which was the turning point in "The Story of Your Life".

Still, physicist or not, if you are interested what is time, I couldn't recommend a better writer than Ted Chiang.
I've been asking the vendor the same question!

They seem to think it's not a drop-in replacement and don't want to rework their code to deal with the changes.
I'm not sure to what extent this is Microsoft making compatibility hard or just a lazy vendor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776
Another famous case of bad judgement resulting is JFK Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr._plane_cras...
Swift playgrounds does not change their “app console” philosophy as can be seen from their documents shown in their legal battle with Epic (I’m on mobile so I don’t have the link handy)
> Their ship requiring multiple-stage launch from earth

Might have to watch the movie again but I think it’s implied that it’s an insane fuel burden to get them off the planet; additionally only a small part of the ship actually goes down to the surface, I believe the main bulk stays in orbit.
I like to think Zig is what we would have if we knew back then (when desiging C) what we know now.

(note: "we" excludes me personally but I mean it as "us who work and study comptuing at large")
KAPA is indeed 5900 MSL, and those heights are also all MSL.

Looking at the FAA's charts, https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2104/05715R17L.PDF, this combination of heights and distances isn't totally crazy -- I state without proof (and wait to be corrected!) that the approach is modified because it is a relatively high altitude airport and there may be quite steeply changing terrain underneath. I've never flown there (not even on X-plane) and I'm a low-hours UK person.

I haven't done the trig and meterological lookup to work out what their AGL altitude was on that day, but at the very least it's not crazy-wrong from the published chart...
...but not illegal as best as I can tell
Cheese is being referenced because it's a natural extension of "You can't call it X if it's not the way we used to do X". If Texas wants to limit the definition of meat, then logically they should be limiting the definition of cheese, milk, and even salt, for that matter.

Without that, it looks less like a matter of evenhanded regulatory enforcement or consumer protection, and more like a legislature beholden to a corporation.
The picture of the Metroliner reminds me of the Aloha Airlines incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

It's amazing that the hull can survive in the air for any time with that much torn away.
New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
Is there a page somewhere that explains what it does? I’m not a particular fan of macOS font rendering though.
The fuel tanks on an aircraft are a major portion of the weight of the whole craft. So make engines more efficient, and you can take less fuel, which means the plane is lighter, so you use even less fuel and can take even less, etc. As you reduce the amount of fuel needed to go a certain distance you can go further and convert two-leg flights to single hops, which saves all sorts of other costs.

The fuel tank of a semi truck is not an important proportion of the weight of the whole vehicle, so it does matter, but not so much.