skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I really wish manufacturers would knock it off with the fragrances. I hate how smelly everything is, and I think some of it gives me headaches. Laundry detergent is the worst; it contaminates everything with cheap perfume. I use non-fragranced stuff whenever I can.

> with chlorine, you are ignoring the production process.

I think you're confusing the production of hypochlorite, which is among the cleanest and most benign of all industrial processes, with that of chlorinated materials like PVC, which is fed with and leaves behind a lot of super nasty shit. Look up the Hooker process, which is how all hypochlorite is currently made. The only byproduct is sodium chloride (common salt), which is also the degradation endpoint of hypochlorite in the environment. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how clean and sustainable this particular corner of industry is.

Did you know that chlorine bleach (such as Clorox) has a shelf life for this reason? It's because hypochlorite is unstable, and eventually that bottle of Clorox will become a bottle of plain salt water.

> with the others your argument seems to be, "it is status quo, so it is ok."

Not at all. What I'm saying is that dishwasher detergent is one of the cleanest, most harmless (to us and the environment) cleaning products we use. It's actually kind of a miraculous substance; it allows a simple machine to perform the hardest household cleaning job reliably and quickly using very little water or energy. It manages to this with no surfactants (such as phosphates, which actually are environmentally damaging) and no volatile grease cutters. The grease is removed only with alkaline minerals, and protein deposits are removed enzymatically.

By drumming up a bunch of implausible and in some cases completely fictitious hazards, the EWG is doing a disservice to one of the most environmentally responsible cleaning products in use. For some reason the zinc thing especially pisses me off. That's so stupid. Pretending that zinc, a mineral that is ubiquitous in food and is essential to human health, is somehow a hazard in dishwasher detergent which is rinsed off anyway... this is basically a lie, and that alone should make you very skeptical of anything else they say.

Anyways, again, I appreciate the fact that you care about this stuff. I imagine you and I would mostly agree about environmental topics in particular.
I wouldn't consider the brain teaser a result of FP error. But yes, something to consider anyway.
A lot of their current models are available as hybrids with great efficiency. I drove a new venza hybrid last week and it got low 40s mpg!

They aren’t as behind as you’d think given that a hybrid still makes more sense than an ev to a lot of people. A reliable hybrid that just works is what people need. More so with their adaptive cruise control.

Could they have done better? Sure. It’s hard to say different given their size and culture.

Also, GM had the EV1 years before …
What's relevant is the scale of production, that's what it helps shed light on. Toyota is a behemoth in terms of industrial size and output, and extraordinarily profitable for an automaker (meaning they have ridiculous financial resources to push toward battery production). And over there is little 'ol Tesla's rapidly expanding battery output; a company that as recently as 2017 had 5% the sales of Toyota. It reveals that Toyota clearly still isn't serious about EVs, or they'd be a lot more serious about battery production.
The magnets are a problem to solve, but not the biggest problem by far. Solve for neutron embrittlement of the reactor parts, and then you’ll start to have some credibility.
Regarding 3.5 (actions calling other actions) – please continue investing in composite actions. They are a well-balanced abstraction for managing workflow complexity. I can see how they could become too powerful and encourage bad patterns (YAML programming), but that's a good problem to have.
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The BBC aren't on the government's payroll and are very willing to criticise the government.
Create trippy loop in UrpflanzeJS – Tutorial #1
you may have one. Not everyone does, or should. It is a massive pain. See how many folks complain about various native wrapper packages in Python and Ruby for example. Someone even made a Python wheel wrapper for zig to make it easier to compile C extensions.
Probably because it's a slogany sort of invented term.
Made 50% of the Delivery – – Shocking Dash Cam Moments Caught on Camera
I just want to meet the author, invite him to to smear some spit or a drop of water from a puddle or whatever on a slide, and look through my old optical microscope to observe just a little bit of microbiology. It's invisible, but it's real, as real as sunlight or gravity.

I have no idea how people functioned before modern science; my brain could not cope.
Just. No.

It's not reasonable, nor rational.
I did not. I have been taking 3mg for months now, though I recently started to suspect it's too much, and dropped down to 1.5mg. If you are taking it at bedtime, rather than a couple of hours before, that can cause it to fail to be effective.

I haven't seen anything to suggest dependency is an issue, and, if I miss a dose (forget to take it until too late), I have reverted to my old sleeping pattern, rather than anything worse. No increased onset insomnia or anything like that.
That was basically the state of affairs with strings in Python 2, and although the transition was awful, I'm really, really appreciative of Python 3 now having clearly-separated str and bytes types.
As others said, The Wire takes a few episodes to really get going, but the payoffs are huge and well worth it. Slowly but surely, you get to know realistic, flawed characters intimately, and you see them struggle (or thrive) in the social mechanisms that trap them - that trap us. Characters go from "bad thugs and good cops" to "just a bunch of people trying to survive every day in a fucked-up system". And when you think you've finally settled into familiar surroundings-BANG! they take you to another little corner of Baltimore, overlooking another piece of the system, and force you to consider even more points of view, even more merciless dynamics, even more awful connections between the drug economy and the official one...

And of course, The Wire perfected the original "make you care about people, kill them, then keep going" trick well before GoT.
My next car is a hybrid Corolla (current is a regular one). I live the damn things. Hopefully the hybrid is offered as a hatchback as well.
The cynic in me has to guess that too much of their development efforts are geared around disrupting and managing viewpoints that their users and corporate sponsors find problematic.

To give a small example: back when a certain subreddit used to frequently appear in /r/all Reddit apparently wrote code to prevent it from ever appearing there again.
There's a difference between aspiration and execution. Every TV channel will claim they aspire to inform, educate and be diverse. No TV channel in history has said their goal is to misinform, dumb down and present homogenous uniformity day after day.

The BBC is clearly failing at its goals. Most of the UK population no longer trusts its news output; that's huge and a new phenomenon, although of course it's been a long time in coming. Unlike normal TV companies the BBC cannot receive a reality check from the market because people are forced to fund it, so there's no way to break the downward spiral. It just gets worse, every year.

Indeed it would be sensible to argue that the BBC's problem is too little government interference, not too much. The government is, at least in theory, accountable to the people. Sure, it's only every 4 years and many different issues are conflated together. But there is at least a vote. The BBC is accountable to nobody. It's not accountable to its viewers. It's not accountable to elected representatives. It is not even really accountable to Ofcom, given the incredibly weak enforcement of the vaguely worded regulations on fairness and neutrality. If you have a complaint about the BBC you can complain to, well, the BBC itself. Or you could complain to an MP who will do nothing because the BBC is de-facto independent of the government.

If the BBC were actually controlled by the government then it would have already been forced back to more mainstream political views. The ruling party is very unhappy with the BBC's wokeness and openly biased news (e.g. "Brexit threat to sandwiches" being a memorable headline). That unhappyness is not self-serving politics but rather, reflecting the frustration that their voters are telling both them and opinion pollsters. The public no longer perceives the BBC as "society enhancing" but instead society damaging. Yet, they can do nothing about it. The political will to reform the BBC isn't there.
Sure -- but at least with something p2p hooked up to it I can let someone else benefit from my desire to assure my own access.
> Undeniably, Sars2—like many other viruses—exploits the social activity of humans. Until now, the Covid bureaucrats have responded with rolling seasonal embargoes on all human social activity that is not mediated by electronics. People who violate these restrictions are behaving irresponsibly and endangering all of society. Consider how much this stance differs from their approach to other viruses. Were gay men, at any point, ever exhorted to abstain from anal sex in the interests of defeating HIV? Was the gay community ever blamed for the AIDS epidemic and scolded by public health bureaucrats for worsening statistics? Were gay bars and bath houses ever targeted for closure or curfews or—imagine!—contact tracing, to flatten the curve? No, they weren’t; and if any of that had happened, we’d be reading to this day what a grave injustice all of it was. HIV is undeniably much harder on those it infects than Sars2, and I submit that, in the hierarchy of human needs, quotidian social interaction ranks well above anal sex.

This post was so well-written! Despite the fact that it’s somewhat against the mainstream narrative and thus will never gain wide recognition.

This comparison between HIV/AIDS and SarsCov2/Covid is probably the most damning indictment of society’s mismanagement of this virus.
The average interested person would have, yes. That would include anybody who's watched any of the relevant PBS Nova programming, or any of David Attenborough's work, etc. - you don't need to have kept your head in the journals to be informed at that level.
Probable cause operates quite different on the street from the way it works in a courtroom. After all, there are few to no penalties for police who make an incorrect call in this regard. Lack of promotion might be an incentive, but not all cops are trying to make detective or captain.
If you continue your scenario, so that the subject refuses compliance even further -- does not pay the fine, ignores court summons -- physical coercion crops up when they are arrested, and perhaps later sent to prison. This may not be "violence" as you meant it, but it is one aspect of what people mean when they say "state monopoly on violence".
It's not really pure go, it's transpiled using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo

Just about all the code looks like this:

// Call this routine to record the fact that an OOM (out-of-memory) error
// has happened. This routine will set db->mallocFailed, and also
// temporarily disable the lookaside memory allocator and interrupt
// any running VDBEs.
func Xsqlite3OomFault(tls *libc.TLS, db uintptr) { /* sqlite3.c:28548:21: */
if (int32((*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FmallocFailed) == 0) &&
(int32((*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FbBenignMalloc) == 0) {
(*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FmallocFailed = U8(1)
if (*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FnVdbeExec > 0 {
libc.AtomicStoreNInt32((db + 400 /* &.u1 */ /* &.isInterrupted */), int32(1), 0)
}
(*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).Flookaside.FbDisable++
(*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).Flookaside.Fsz = U16(0)
if (*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FpParse != 0 {
(*Parse)(unsafe.Pointer((*Sqlite3)(unsafe.Pointer(db)).FpParse)).Frc = SQLITE_NOMEM
}
}
}
You might luck out and find people agree to go there.
It's really hard to know what you have to do and what is optional unless you're actually a lawyer. And not answering optional stuff might still end up with you getting your ass kicked by the police.
Is that the right metric? You wouldn't need to build a huge containment structure around it like you would for a PWR, so I'd imagine the power density of the plant as a whole wouldn't be anywhere near 40x worse. Why focus just on the primary reactor vessel?
NanoPutian
Just get feature parity with the average Linux distro, and I'll be happy.

Windows is so behind, and every step they take in the right direction is an authoritative foot-gun.

Most of its problems are, at their heart, symptoms of Microsoft's proprietary closed-source design style.

Apple made huge strides in the right direction by basing OS X on BSD, then proceeded to make every step from then on in the wrong one. Walled gardens are pretty, not functional.
Hey do you have some links you can share which support this?

I’d be interested in seeing the details.
I've scraped by with an older GPU for now. I'll probably get a geforce 3xxx when hell freezes over.
And that is a sound solution if you have limitless VC bux to burn while you implement your over-engineered solution, but most shops have to be a little bit scrappier.

Not to mention that you end up scaling to a size where k8s is a sound solution, that "costly" migration is going to be a rounding error on your balance sheet
yeah, you should go with lenny then: https://github.com/innereq/lenny
> The BBC aren't on the government's payroll

But where's the money coming from?
Would stellarators see the same benefits as tokomaks from higher field strength magnets?
I've run a Minecraft server on a $10/month DigitalOcean VPS for years.

What you describe has never happened to me. Have I just been lucky?
The plan is for them to breed their own tritium, though, so the consumables coming in the front door would just be deuterium and lithium, both of which (while less common than tap water) are not rare.
> Some of his experimental papers where he talks of "dog rape" were perhaps borne out of his outrage at his situation

You may have misunderstood the whole Grievance Studies affair. The papers were not experimental, they were deliberately and visibly fake in order to point out the ridiculousness of the whole field.
two types of software: those that people complain about and those that nobody uses
My guess is spacing issues in non-US homes. When I was growing up in the US, running the dishwasher meant wheeling it over to the kitchen sink, hooking it up to the hot water tap, and then running it.

Friends had their dishwashers built-into the kitchen cabinetry and had a water line directly to it.

I live outside of the US now in eastern europe, and for older apartments, dishwashers aren't really possible unless you do specific renovations to run piping for it. There either just isn't space or isn't piping (or both) to make it work.

Newer apartments it's much more common, but the dishwashers are about half-the size of what I grew up with in the US.
They're really not a `must`.
What a silly comment - Docker and Kubernetes and substantial parts of Google wouldn't be classed as trivial.

For the thousands of devs shipping non-trivial code, keep going!
A huge imbalance is money, specifically enough to have a lawyer appear on your behalf ASAP. Those with means usually won't ever see the inside of a holding/processing cell because there lawyers are there before they are booked.

This means they need to bail hearing, since the lawyers will even demand immediate bail based on charges.

No jail time, not even 24 hours. No dealing with bail bondsmen. That is huge. Most jails only offer free calls within their area code. Not being in jail means their life continues uninterrupted, as does their job/income. A poor person will likely lose their job if they can't afford bail, as they are stuck an inmate until their hearing. If their public defender is backed up, which they always are, they will likely push thw court date back for more time.

It's just a complete nightmare. The rich have straight up taken control of everything, including the government.
This was a 32T field created, not sure if it's the same, but similar.

https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/tech/201912/t2...

Googling "30T magnetic field" shows some papers that have apparently "pulsed" 30T.
and then, there's lemmy, which does not certain types of opinions in their site
You've made good points on this. My concern would be that police officers have an obligation to gather this information as it states in the article, and that they would lean on their powers to detain and arrest in order to coerce that information.

Let's run through a hypothetical. Routine traffic stop. Cop pulls out one of these cards and asks for your handles. You refuse, claim Miranda rights, or something similar. Cop says you, "match the description of a known suspect" (in a city as large as LA everyone matches a known suspect) and this is part of the ID process. "Of course, we can do a check using the computers at the station but you'll need to come with us until we confirm your ID ..."

Now, following through on that threat is an arrest, but under California law police have 48-hours to investigate before either charging you with a crime or releasing you. I doubt most officers would use the entire time, but letting someone stew for the afternoon in a drunk tank seems entirely within reason. During that time their car has been impounded and they're either missing work or missing time with their loved ones. Refusing to self identify could carry an effective fine in the hundreds of dollars, and that worries me.
I think some of the stuff that happened in Sweden might not be possible to happen everywhere, despite the fact that they had 14k deaths for covid with a population of 10m , Sweden has also a low population density, 25 per Km2, in the US there is a density of 36 per Km2 but if you compare the most dense city in Sweden it's Stockholm and has a density of 367, compare it with NYC with 27k per sqm, I am not sure if that really makes a difference so maybe someone with better understanding of the dynamics could reply
Being falsely arrested and sent to jail is bad enough. Many people who experience that have no desire to relive the experience through a long-=drawn out and possibly expensive process of litigation.
In many cases the next problem would be what to use instead. The alternatives aren’t too great either.
The whole video can also be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Appreciate the rundown of why this is important!

> This is because energy gain and power density scale exponentially with magnetic field strength but only linearly with reactor size

Nit: It scales polynomially, not exponentially. Specifically (according to those formulas) energy gain scales with the cube of field strength and power density with the fourth power. Still massive scaling indeed, but exponentially would be something else.

> as far as I remember the substrate they are using needs to be cooled to 60-70 degK to achieve super conductivity

The video in the article shows 20 K. Could of course be that higher temperature is feasible and they just played it safe (or the video is wrong).
why past participle, when the issue is still open
As a programmer I think it's notable that when I learned Rust I wanted to rewrite stuff in Rust.

I rewrote 'leakdice' as part of learning Rust, so arguably that doesn't count (though I had never rewritten a program to learn a previous language), and 'misfortunate' wouldn't make sense in unsafe languages so that doesn't count either, but I then also immediately began rewriting 4store in Rust.

I had never been compelled to rewrite stuff in other languages I learned. I am a compulsive programmer, so I did write stuff in languages I learned, (the other day I re-discovered, via an enquiry to a very old email address, that I used to know Scheme, as evidenced by the fact I wrote some Scheme that they were asking about from last century) but I didn't rewrite anything until I learned Rust.

C. Go. Python. Java. PHP. Bash. Perl. C#. Early C++. I'm sure there are many more. But always new things, either because the language afforded something I hadn't considered before or more often I wanted something and I chose a languages I knew would be able to achieve it. That's why I wrote some PHP less than a year ago, I'm not proud of that, but PHP got the job done so that's what I did. I can report that modern PHP is merely a bad idea, like Javascript, which I probably forgot to list above.

Anyway with Rust I not only wanted to write new low-level code in Rust, I looked again at C programs I use and thought, "I should rewrite that in Rust". It felt like a good idea, and I expect to follow through on it at least somewhat, let's see how long 4store takes.
> How do you know he wasn't just lying to see if you would unintentionally confirm his lie?

Or how much of it was bait? "I never said such a thing." > "Now are you calling me a liar?"
So strange. No idea ;-)
If there were no need for isolated environments in Windows, VMware wouldn’t exist.
Apple Pay online is hands down my favorite payment method. It kicks PayPal’s butt in speed and ease. The problem is that many merchants still don’t implement it fully
Do you know how I can write to the mods in order to remove my posts?
I have an extremely difficult time believing this. I actually don't know another person IRL over the age of 18 who doesn't have a FB account. I know a couple of people who've claimed to have "deleted" or "deactivated" theirs, but not another person whose never had one.