skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.. assuming that the laptop batteries tested in the paper are a suitable comparison. Tesla’s cells are at least similar LFP chemistry these days, and the documentation [0] lists the same gases in the case of a fire.

But this is not an enclosed space - it’s a fenced-off high voltage switchyard in a paddock more than a kilometre from the nearest dwelling, and this battery hasn’t instantaneously emitted all its contents all at once. It’s also quite a windy and rainy week, which affects how serious a practical hazard this is. The emergency services have notified [1] people within 10km to keep the windows closed nevertheless.

Many more of good people of Geelong have a gigantic oil refinery on their doorstep[2], which is a far greater concern if you want to get exercised about HF-related accidents[3].

[0] https://www.gnr8nrg.com.au/images/resources/batteries/tesla/...
[1] https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/warning/17269/mo...
[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shell+Refinery+Corio,+Cori...
[3] https://www.csb.gov/philadelphia-energy-solutions-pes-refine...
> Beaches are absolutely covered in plastic waste and it's noticeably worse each time I go.

No disrespect but I don’t think anyone can uniformly sample all the beaches. There might as well be prevailing currents that fill certain places disproportionately more, and leave others disproportionately pristine.

This “making a global inference based on the beaches we’ve personally been to” is going to be deceptive in either direction of the argument.
Conspiracy types are pretty much always overrepresented on web forums, newspaper comments, etc. This is likely because they often have an evangelising tendency; they need to show the unbelievers The Truth.

Hackernews is primarily a US audience, and the US has a high rate of vaccine hesitancy (about 25%). Even in countries with a low rate of vaccine hesitancy, though, they fill the comments sections. Ireland has 5-10% vaccine hesitancy depending on poll, say, but if you were to try to evaluate it purely based on news website comment sections, you'd assume that it was well over 50%.
how do specs get to 1.0? browsers heed the call to implement & do so. they work through what it takes to improve & finalize the spec.

your timeline, to me, indicates less that the spec was rushed & bad, and more that it took apple 5 years to get off their hostage taking kick & finally face the music & do what should have been done years ago, which is implement. once apple did start to implent, 1.0 came soon after: because that is how specs work. companies implement, they find what's not right, & they improve, then make a 1.0.

I would definitely be interested in a changes over time review of webrtc. my feeling is that the core ideas & protocols were largely stable, but needed tweaking & elaboration, needed conformance suites elaborated. I could be wrong. this is in contrast to something like spdy, which evolved seemingly a good number of times in major ways, before ultimately getting parlayed into quic+http3.
Because it doesn't summarize the article.
Funny, I’ve used it on and off for 12 years, switching to other browsers when they started doing rapid release since it was noticeably slower than the competition. But since 2017 when the Quantum update came out I’ve completely switched to it because it’s speed became comparable to the competition. I like it even more when they added container tabs so I can switch between accounts easily. Reading this thread is really strange based on my experience. I do agree that Google makes it hard to use their products like Meet or Drive outside of Gmail and Calendar (the only Google products I use).
What actions caused their mistrust of the government? Where did they learn about these actions?
Ohh god what a disugsting human being you are
The strong evidences you are talking about are usually confounded by socioeconomic status. One recent longitudinal study in New Zealand have found only a very weak correlation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801257/
> Then when you look at plastic pollution and see that for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem.

Go to any waterway in the US and you will find it. Plastic bottles, bottle caps, chip bags, cpu lids, straws, milk jugs, food containers, chewing tobacco cans, lighters, ping pong balls, syringes, milk crates, fishing line, bobbers, clothes hangers, insulation, O-rings, tires, fishing nets, pens, pen caps, grocery bags, six pack rings, chew toys, fake flowers, buckets, handles, 55 gallon drums, soccer balls, the broken plastic housing of almost any consumer product you can imagine.

I have with my bare hands picked up over 500 bags of this shit off coastlines and waterways and highways on three different continents. Based on my experience, every single mile of ocean coastline and nearly every waterway is littered with plastic waste to a greater or lesser degree.

The problem is so bad that unless you are in a national park a hundred miles from civilization, you cannot walk more than 100 feet along a waterway without seeing some kind of garbage, unless someone has specifically detrashed there, thoroughly, in the past week. The water is full of our junk.

> Don’t get me started on plastic straws. They make up 0.03% of plastic waste in the ocean.

The tone of this comment really raised my hackles. I'm not going to unload on you, but I am so tempted to right now. But holy shit, if you'd dragged 5 tons of shit out of the creek you'd not complain from behind your keyboard that they want to take your stupid straws away.

I say ban all single-use plastic.
Would you rather , on this site, people post what they honestly think, or what they would say in a job interview situation? Because if the latter, you might be better off not assuming that the OP is dumb enough to let out their unvarnished thoughts in an interview.
We are at a time where trust is low. People want something govs and companies want something else. Left and right completely entrenched. While we keep fighting each other we waste a lot of time. Because things are changing to fast, so everyone keeps reinventing the wheel
People really believed it then, and really believe it now, in both cases I think because they need to believe something - as do we all; if there's any one thing that distinguishes humans from all other animals, a strong candidate is that we both make and need meaning - in a time when old verities seem to crumble ever more by the day, and chaos seems ever more ascendant.

If you're young, a time like that can be immensely exciting, as the future feels open to be remade and you have the chance to help shape it. If you're not, the same time can be terrifying, as the ways in which you've always understood the world seem suddenly no longer to work. As with any "conspiracy theory", the schemes of reference we here discuss can serve the purpose of restoring that sense of understanding how things work, and I think that's a big part of their appeal - for all that these are not accurate ways of understanding the world, they certainly can be compelling, and for a lot of folks the one is as good as the other.

Not as many in either case believe it as as participate in it, you're right about that - as ever, much of the most apparent heat and hype is generated by hucksters cunning enough to spot an emerging market and unscrupulous enough to exploit it without concern for whatever harm they cause by so doing. But if nobody really believed it, to whom could they sell?

(If you're curious, my own scheme of reference is informed primarily by historiography, but I think the essential difference is that I understand the meanings I make are the meanings I make. So, when I say that in my analysis this looks very much like a rehash of the 70s "malaise" years, I know I'm saying that at least as much because I want to believe there is precedent for times like these, and for them being not catastrophic in the way they can sometimes feel, as because my study of US history strongly suggests as much. That said, I'm not without sympathy for those who believe in the way we here discuss; I think they're foolish to do so, sure, but I've been a fool myself betimes, and I may feel very differently two or three decades hence, when I can no longer help but feel myself always under the ferryman's eyeless gaze.)
tesla does not exist in a vacuum though.
'10x researches can try out 10x approaches'

Can they though, and is that helpful? Is there sufficient communication between everyone in the field to ensure no one is investigating the same things? Is that still 10x, given the communication overhead in ensuring what you're wanting to start doing isn't already being worked on by one of the 9999 others? Are their 10x as many approaches that can be investigated in parallel at all times?

The lessons from the mythical man month still apply even with research.
>The odds of a silver bullet cure are effectively zero

A way to kill a specific type of cells doesn't sound impossible (zero).
Not GP but Maybe Somalia? Yeah the hysteria about environmental degradation in the USA is among some online people who don't even bother to go outside is absurd. Within 50 miles of NYC are pristine woods, mature second growth trees, deer and black bear. And yeah near the road side you may see a plastic bottle every couple hundred feet. The sky is not falling.
I think there’s a disconnect in what we deem to be value. SpaceX has rapidly reduced the cost of lift to orbit (and shortly, revolutionizing global comms via StarLink). Tesla has forced an entire industry (light vehicles) to electrify by demonstrating very little compromise vs combustion vehicles while their stationary storage products are forcing thermal generators off the electrical grid (cannibalizing ancillary/frequency response revenue, the last pieces of significant revenue thermal generators are holding on to). TikTok, Clubhouse, and Robinhood are various degrees of poison (both at the individual level, and the societal level). They're our generation's Philip Morris and Standard Oil (imho).
The numbers 1000 and 10,000 are just to make a point. It could be 10,000 vs 100,000. I just don't know.

I've added "beyond a certain point" to 10x. So e.g., increasing from 10 to 100 helps. 100 to 1000 helps. 1000 to 10,000? maybe. 10,000 to 100,000? maybe not. And so on (like approaching diminishing returns). (again the numbers are for illustration, and would vary with the nature of work).
Unemployment is one of the few ways government has ever done anything for me personally as opposed to general social goods. As a net payer into the system for the overwhelming majority of my working life I have absolutely no objection to getting a little of that money back when I hit a rough patch.
It is a pleasure to see a thoughtful discussion of this topic in the non-specialist press.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.06358.pdf looks like a decent starting point, with references to work on other types.
Im on the east coast and Ive never seen more than a plastic bag or two on any beach. Even less in forests. Any plastic waste Ive seen outside of a city area is an isolated incident.
You also live in one of the richest cities in the US, so I think your experience may be slightly skewed.
It does make a small difference though, and may influence others to do the same.

It may not make enough difference to fix the problem, but that is beyond my control.
I'd say there's a Great Desynchronization.

Not only are more and more producers simply out to enrich themselves, but social conditions make workers more and more likely to be at each other over topics unrelated to their work. It plays out like destructive interference in phase, where a massive amplitude in effort is taken on all accounts, but the sum is 0.
A Third Eye for Smartphone Zombies
> It is diagnosed purely via behavioral assessment, not biomarkers or brain scans. It directly impacts motivation levels, self control, and emotion regulation. If that's not mental I'm not sure what is.

Nobody is arguing it’s not mental. I haven’t said it’s not a disorder.

You seem to address everything except the fact that nowhere does the DSM call ADHD a mental illness. That is something you are saying and has nothing to do with the DSM.

If you are determined to call people who have ADHD, “mentally ill”, you are free to do so, but is isn’t supported by the DSM.
> The Great Dissipation.

Yeah I was consulting for about 5 years and this is something I saw inside a lot of companies, especially when they get sizable funding: they become simultaneously obsessed with hiring and process, and very little real work gets done.

To be honest, I think it might be an inevitability of the productivity boom. Thanks to technology and automation, it's possible for a single individual to accomplish what it might have taken dozens or hundreds of people to do a generation or so ago.

When it becomes possible for for a small subset of the population to create enough value to support essentially everyone else, it it just changes the parameters of the social game we are all playing. When essentially all the manpower is needed to progress society, the optimal strategy is to reward the most productive individuals to incentivize others to increase their own productivity. When there's an excess of productivity, the optimal strategy may be to put yourself in a position to capture the value of those few productive individuals.

But I think it's also something we can try to address via IP law. Currently we don't do a very good job of incetivizing creating something new. The current state of patent law essentially serves to bully small players out of the market who cannot afford to defend against dubious patent claims. Copyright is used as a cudgel to keep small creators from iterating on culture. In a lot of ways, it's fair to see the game as rigged, and to come to the conclusion that it's not really worth it to create something new.

If you ask me, the single best thing we could do to improve productivity would be to make it easier for people to own the products of their creativity.
To add, I am hiring individuals with a background like yours. Here is a role I have open that may give you some background on what I look for in AppSec engineers.

https://jobs.discover.com/job/12614460/principal-cybersecuri...

You will see a variance in roles in AppSec, for example

1) DevSecOps; build automation, shift left, etc...

2) Run security testing tooling and provide reports; "old school" approach to AppSec.
All correct as far as I know.

It can be a bit From Beyond at times, albeit sadly impaired by the lack of Jeffrey Combs.
It went to:

- distractions

- the plethora of (min)information

- the lack of proper books, guids and documentation

- the twisted fact that everybody needs to be rich and famous

- the constant chasing of revenue instead of science, art, philosophy

We're living in a fake bubble of bullshit, and everybody wants to be the polished turd.
Would this not just be correlated with areas of poverty? Typically those areas haven't afforded new plumbing in the post-lead world thus far...
They still use it for anything that runs on the application layer, i.e. stuff the runs in-process on the machines that serve web and GrahphQL API requests.

FB isn’t as steeped in modern service-oriented ideology as most similar companies, so that `www` monorepo represents a lot more code than you probably expect, including stuff you’d normally think of as “services”.

True backend services do exist outside the PHP application, and are typically written in C++. Java, Rust, and Python also exist in various niches.

The only mainstream language I have never seen anywhere at FB is Go, although I’m sure any language you can imagine is used by _some_ random team out there.

I’m not sure why Hack would be unpopular. On the contrary, it’s the default choice for starting new projects since all of the internal tooling is built mostly with Hack in mind, so it’s the path of least resistance for developers.
When situation is draw can't they award the match to who ever is ahead on time? This would reduce draws by a lot.

Or some different timing control that will force victories by timeout.
It’s a tax on capital and not on labor. Reagan famously believed the tax on capital ought to be higher than the tax on labor. That the capital gains tax is so low explains why the effective tax rate on Bill Gates is less than a person making $75,000 per year in wages.
> Gosh, these sound just like Android, now that you're quoting it.

Android is getting in trouble for it in the EU!

>But I think that's beside the point. Microsoft did a lot of anti-competitive things in a lot of markets. Limiting scope to one particular litigation isn't really helpful here. The phrasing, "THE compliant," makes it sound like there wasn't a mountain of complaints. There was.

This thread was about their legal issues with IE. People complain about a lot of things, but that doesn't make them illegal.
NYC probably has people actively cleaning trails and beaches.

Japanese beaches that aren't ultra popular tourist destinations are currently flooded with trash. Going through Shizuoka, Aichi, and islands of Kagoshima, they're increasingly looking like dumps. Some are completely covered in pieces of trash, and most of it isn't Chinese. It's washed up laundry detergent bottles and toys and stuff all from here. Some places like Okinawa and Kamakura beach are generally cleaned, but having visited Kamakura 4 years ago and again a year ago, it's noticeably filthier.

Major beaches are maintained and cleaned daily. Walk a few hundred meters beyond the crowds and there's a good chance you'll see trash everywhere. Two weeks ago I visited a beach I last went to a couple years back, and it was depressing seeing the state of it. The beach used to have crabs and isopods roaming the sands and crawling around the rocks. Now it's covered in shards of plastic and washed up tires and other things. Not a crab to be seen.
If you were in a street fight with a professional fighter, and you used some of these techniques that 'would otherwise end a fight quickly', could you defeat them? Of course not. MMA is the fundamentals of one-on-one fighting, various dirty techniques are the 'extra' on top of that but don't constitute an entire methodology. If you're interested in self defense, just learning the fundamentals of MMA makes the most sense
It can be done conducting at one place instead of building and then leaving behind infra. See what happend to what was built last time in Brazil and guess how many Brazils are happy to hear what you said
> Why does the fact that you have bigger problems in your backlog negate working on the smaller, quicker wins first?

One should pick the tasks with the best cost/benefit ratio first. It seems intuitive enough to me that the same amount of $ will go much, much further around the Ganges than in an effort to ban plastic straws in developed countries, or whatever else I see political capital being burnt on.
No but increasing the number of teams who are all now competing with each other would probably allow us to see progress scaling with the number of teams, not necessarily putting everyone on the same team.
Between summer camps and the weather being nice enough to just go outside and entertain oneself, the 3-month summer vacation is a notably different effect on the economy than the year-long covid isolation with indeterminate future horizon.

What you find when you look at the numbers is an awful lot of White collar firms simply get less done during the summer months. "We expect to move forward on that project, but we're blocked on the report from the ads team, and 2/3 of the ads team just took a week-long vacation with their families" is a common pattern in summer.
Fed Chair: “Inflation Turn Out to Be Higher and More Persistent Than We Expect”
cheaper to conduct at same stadiums every year
Why doesn't it have a status bar? All the software I use has a status bar, but for years it has become fashionable not to have one in browsers.
Energy is one dimension of resource utilization. Plastic bags clog sewers, kill wildlife and generate a lot of rubbishy.

Paper bags are reusable, made of a renewable material, and break down in weeks or months. They are a better solution.
I'm actually not disagreeing with you ("Still, your comment is spot on."), just clarifying the motivation to remove plastic and trying to show how recycling efforts do make sense.

> The beaches covered in plastic bags are exactly my point. The problem is plastic waste being mismanaged.

Yes, I agree.

> Recycling is not a solution to mismanaged waste streams,

Well, it can be. Incentivized collection (e.g., aluminum and glass) motivates consumers better than providing passive options that don't work well (like expecting perfectly non-contaminated and sorted plastic from everyday consumers).

> If the current recycling technology can’t make a profit recycling plastic bags then the solution is making sure each and every piece of that plastic is properly disposed of in an engineered landfill.

One solution is doing that. Another solution is not using plastic or using less. A third is fixing current recycling technology with (4th option) perhaps involving the plastic producers and making plastic easier to recycle.

You made an excellent point about waste management being a very good cost effective solution to reducing plastic pollution. You're fundamentally right, but absolutism based on assumptions about people you disagree with doesn't help. We can fix waste management, improve recycling, and reduce supply all at once which _also_ reduces oil use at the same time.
I mean for head to head sports, the bronze medalists won their last match while the silver medalists lost. That would obviously make a big difference in happiness.
No, Fed is Paying ~$1.37 Million in interest a day
How Artificial Intelligence Made Me a Better Writer
how are the xml dumps generated?
Investors Lost Hundreds of Billions on China in July
Meet absolutely works in Firefox, there's nothing anti-competitive going on. As do Google products generally (though there are occasionally performance issues where Firefox simply doesn't provide an API that Chrome does and the polyfill is slower, but then Firefox catches up).

But try disabling browser extensions and see if that fixes it -- a majority of the time that's the culprit. With videoconferencing specifically, it's often an extension or setting to block videos from autoplaying.
The same is true in Spanish and I think Portuguese, so there you go ;)

Note: but don't forget that there are plenty of exceptions and words that differ only on the position of the stress.
https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix fixes most of the frustrating bits of Proton you describe.

It's arguably not the same as a sensible out-of-the box design, but far better than sticking to old versions just because of the UI.
Why There Are Plenty of Jobs and Still Unemployment
The vast majority of plastic doesn’t last that long when exposed to the elements. Micro plastics are a significant concern but their extreme surface area to volume ratio is associated with a short individual lifespan. What’s going on is new plastics are introduced from littering and fishing nets which continuously replaces the plastic which is breaking down.
'Submission only' was popular to watch for the first few contests, then competitors realized they could just stall until the end of the match and then get rewarded in overtime. The rules just became a different disincentive to not take any risks