skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, a lot of PVC wire insulation contains no lead. For example, all wire meant to be sold in the EU must be ROHS complaint, and thus contain no lead. Many US manufacturers are also compliant, and the number is growing. Many manufacturers state this explicitly on their websites (e.g. Tripp Lite and Southwire, to take two random examples). Many others can be identified by either an RoHS designation or lack of CA Prop 65 warning for lead.

The answer to your second question is yes, handling cords with heavily leaded insulation can cause significant amounts of lead to rub off on your hands. This is easily seen with a Lead-Check swab, which will turn red when wiped either on the cord, or even on your fingers after you've spent some time handling the cord.
We all understood what it meant. Also people have idiolects, and there is no such a thing as an authoritative version of English.
Yes, any assertion that propping up the old plant reduces emissions is just blindly accepting the spin from the executives. Fossil fuel operations that both emit CO2 and are naturally unprofitable when competing with solar/wind should be shut down. That is how we planned for them to die, and if they don't die, that is terrible.

Bitcoin is responsible insofar as it provides a low barrier to entry to the business of turning electricity into profit. Any schmuck can do it, and any schmuck will, including ones that would use it to prop up a coal-fired power plant. There is a component of this that is orthogonal to any value you ascribe to the mining.

Can you imagine what a time it is to be a fossil fuel executive? You face the prospect of a dying industry, where at best you can earn your reputation for being a good steward into the afterlife, making endless marketing materials featuring green plants on every page and sending your shiniest lumps of coal to Australian politicians to display in Parliament... and then someone comes along with a tool to create energy demand for yourself at precisely the hours of day when the sun isn't out? I guess we'll have to wait another ten years for the battery tech to really arrive, right? They are laughing at us.

I'm not sure this project is actually doing that, and on the whole I don't think this is occurring the level of electricity market manipulation that Enron attained in California around the turn of the century, but it could get in the ballpark pretty quickly. Bitcoin mining eliminates the cost of generating fake demand to suit a narrative that renewables are not enough. All you need to do is not tell the regulator you're doing it.

(For a practical thing to do to counter this, ask your government to track it, and exclude from their planning calculations any electricity demand that has a conflict of interest behind it like this one.)
I love the cover art of the early editions. They really were things of beauty at least to me.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-11
Are you doing this because of resource usage?

If resources are free then you could even actually deploy their app and either whitelist it for their own IP or only allow very few requests before taking it down.

This would be even more frustrating and could ruin whatever they plan to do with their abusive app in the first place. Let's say they deploy their malware/phishing page, test it a couple of times (possibly from a different IP) and it works. They then start spamming the malicious link and waste decent amounts of time/money/processing power, not realizing that the link was dead after the first 10 hits.
No joke–you can buy our copy/paste keyboard
Yeah, the linear model is too simple to generalise :)
Is there no biological mechanism in the body to help promote the removal of lead?
IMO the Web was better in the Trident days, when IE6's dominance allowed a single defacto web-wide standard (vs today's WHATWG clusterfsk) but alternative browsers like NetCaptor could still provide all the shiny UI chrome, from tabs to integrated popup blocking.

Having a single renderer but multiple browsers on top of it would vastly simplify the web for users & developers, resulting in one consistent engine to develop, test, and fuzz against.

Rather than being the irrelevance it is today, Mozilla focusing on Blink development & governance would have way more impact for billions of users, rather than some obsolete and forgotten build of Firefox.

Then all it'd take is for something like the E.U. to cripple Apple's Webkit-on-iOS monopoly for Blink to take over there too.

Having multiple renderers is just a waste of everyone's time...
Amazon Astro – Household Robot for Home Monitoring
Ive used Loom before and really like it but they recently switched how many videos you can store on the free plan and it really cut down on how I can use it. I used it to send quick project instructions to team members that are overseas, they rely on it so they can replay it at a speed they are comfortable with understanding the instructions.

Its interesting Dropbox is getting into this. My first thought is users can use storage faster than they would with normal documents by making Gifs and other videos. In my Loom library I had 110 videos at one time that were between 2-5 mins long.
It also helps with the heat island effect.

But yeah, there's lots of different types of grasses that are OK to have in arid climates. But most lawns in my region (socal) aren't these special grasses. Subterranean irrigation can help too.
Wouldn't ensuring a reliable supply of safe drinking water fall under keeping people safe from threats to their physical safety?
Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
Personal anecdote: one ShowHN I did with a friend [0] did not take off and an update to iOS APIs made it very tedious to update. Thus we retired it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497520
Then who is working in the Google Moscow office[1]? Androids? Aliens?

[1] https://careers.google.com/locations/moscow/
I remember some years ago I would get messages from Twitter bots that all had an overly sexualized picture, and were named a womans name and then some random digits. It was so obvious that I don't understand why Twitter didn't stop it.
Hmm I wonder if it picked up timestamps as its initial filter.
Regarding your change to `isEqualFromIndex()`, wouldn't the results of the `lowercase()` calls be freed on successive iterations? Does this only happen on the function termination?
Cops routinely use possession of a target's ID as a detention method during traffic stops.

I rather suspect we'll see begin to see stories of substituting phone possession if this becomes widespread.

Related... do "I've been pulled over" recorder apps continue to run while this is active?
For me the point of Dropbox is sync that works so well that I can even manage development projects on the shared folder.

In my experience the Microsoft syncing is not even close match.

This is likely also problem for Dropbox. For heavy users their main costs must come from bandwidth and processing - not raw storage.
I think they meant (and I am interested in hearing about) appealing a "block" decision that was made by your automation.

If I'm a real human and trying to post a "good" post, but the model classifies it as bad and automatically blocks it, how do I appeal that decision? Can I? Or is my post totally blocked with no recourse?
Indeed, the simulation should not be done in real time.

The 3D world could be a cute way for users to change the parking scenario and then let the algorithm run in background and show the winners every 1000 cycles.
I think OP made a correct argument that that we quickly make this right vs left without dissecting the actual impacts of workers unions. Your comment kind of demonstrates that.

> In terms of overall welfare

What is overall welfare ? If you are talking about society then we already know that free market competition leads to the best outcomes. If you are talking about welfare of specific group of people (at the expense of others) then you are right.

> I'm in favor of workers' ability to elect someone to represent them at the negotiation table (because that is what a union is).

I do not think anyone is opposed to that idea. It is covered under our freedom to form association. But in many cases unions are exact opposite of this. There is only one union which will negotiate on your behalf whether you like it or not and will actively prevent you from selecting someone else to negotiate on your behalf. In such cases workers are less free than before and it is much easier for the employer to get their way by just bribing the union leaders. (This is what happens in every single society where unions have collective bargaining rights.)
Sorry, "off" means off not "standby" or "only screen off". When I say "off" I always mean just that--power off! On a smartphone that usually means holding down the power switch for about 5 sec or so until the shutdown dialogue appears to which the user responds in the affirmative. At this point the OS shuts down and only power management circuitry and clock are still running.

I have yet to see a normal smartphone in this "almost-off" state capable of doing anything other than being charged, turned on or booted into recovery mode. In essence, it's pretty reasonable to assume Big Tech will not be stealing your data at this point or ISMI Catchers recording your ISMI. Of course, you're likely right, some smartphones probably have nefarious stuff still running but I'd hazard a guess they'd be a super small subset especially modified by security agencies, the NSA, etc.

Removing, the battery or the power cord from equipment is double insurance over that last point.

What the author of that story said was simply wrong not to mention misleading and his comments shouldn't be defended. It's also clear that he doesn't have an engineering or electronics background or wouldn't have used those words - or he would have qualified them with an additional explanation to the effect that "screen off" isn't really "off".

What's even more unforgivable is his implication that this pseudo-off position is an improvement (albeit slight) over the "on" state when it's not. A mobile phone in so-called "standby" mode is fully functional, as that's its normal modus oerandi in that it is communicating with cells all the time in readiness of incoming calls. IMSI Catchers would just as easily gather information then as at any other time/way. If he meant that putting the phone into "standby" mode was an 'improvement' as ISMI Catchers wouldn't be recording any voice conversions then he should have especially said so.

Frankly, perpetuating the notion
that "standby" is "off" by Big Tech et al is an unmitigated disgrace for it allows them to carry out nefarious actions in the "standby" mode thus it's imperative to dispel the notion that just because the screen is off that by implication the phone is also off when it is not. Clearly, Big Tech doesn't want phones switched off and the embedding of non-removable batteries is another impediment in that direction.

This 'unclear' nomenclature issue is part of a much bigger problem revolving around poor design, poor ergonomics that leads to accidents, etc. Clearly, I've not time to go into those details here.
With no due respect, Ed Zitron nailed this. Only a generation as devoid of meaning in their life as our current one could turn watching Netflix before bed into some idea that they're part of the cultural zeitgiest reaching out for collective labor action.
SSH to machine and grepping through is much harder when the number of machine is > ~5 (say). SSH to host doesn't scale as you keep adding the hosts.
have to build the foundations first
Isn't it basically known that FAANG pays the most because they have the most invasive & powerful adtech, and adtech is actually just a euphemism for outreach and control?

And I hate to say it, but they justify their work really easily: they get paid very well for it and someone else would if they didn't anyways

The real battles were fought and lost long ago in this domain, and the chances of success were never high. Power is an addiction and powerful people are the most addicted, they always have and always will aim to subjugate and control, to be a pawn of such a person is definitely sad but maybe worth the lofty goal of having true financial independence
I think here you are mixing up pandemic-related WFH and protest-related curfews from a much shorter period of time in 2020 (under a week, where I was). WFH - what the article is about - and pandemic restrictions were much less aggressively enforced.
This wasn't the case just a generation ago. When I was little, in the '80s, it was common for people to work in retail for decades, often in the same store, and those salespeople tended to like their jobs because they got to help people and make a living without a ton of stress. Similarly, I had a friend, and both his parents were janitors the whole time he was growing up. They were happy with their lives and eventually saved up and bought a house, was rural Minnesota.

Sure they weren't going to change the world or anything like that, but there are plenty of people who want to be comfortable, spend time raising their children, and interacting with friends and family. For them, that's enough.
I thought they pulled their engineering offices. And there were still sales/other employees there.
I never knew that! Thanks.
Definitely planning on working on it. Thanks for chiming in to help us prioritize this.
And you double down.

Your second paragraph adds nothing except detailing your reasoning which only serves to exemplify the behavior the comment you are replying to is complaining about. The point of the comment you are replying to is that people have a bad tendency to ignore groups doing evil things for their own gains if they otherwise align with these groups.

Whether it's the moron on one side of the isle screeching about "mUh UnIoNs" or the moron on the other side of the isle screeching about "mUh SmAlL bUsInEsSeS" is irrelevant. People, you very much included, need to refrain from giving groups on "their side" a blank check to engage in evil self serving behavior at everyone else's expense.

Of course the evil to good ratio is not the same for any two groups or groups of groups. His entire point was that that liking one group more than another is a worthless excuse for turning a blind eye to that group's evil. Just because you are able to write a second (or 3rd or 4th) paragraph expanding about why you feel one group deserves a blind eye more than another only serves to illustrate his point.

Your behavior is exactly what he is complaining about.
I only learned about it myself after spending too long building my own half-baked version. I think it's in pretty opaque language that makes it hard to find even if you know what you want.

Maybe somebody else on here will see it and learn about it before they need it, and at least you still have a new tool to reach for in the future.
I love number 4! :)
As a former union leader I'd just like to say FUCK THOSE GUYS. Holy shit that is fucking infuriating. I did OHSA inspections to prevent shit like that from hurting our members AND THE COMMUNITY. I hope their leadership is burning in hell.
I think he's talking about false positives.
Why didn't you ban the user when you found out the scam?
Ask HN: Services/products for family cyber security monitoring/scanning/alerting
I have been listening to A LOT of Darknet Diaries [0] lately. Jack's latest 2 part episode on Citizen lab [1] and the NSO [2] has me concerned about my family's cyber security status.

We use 1Password, complex passwords, MFA where ever possible. We also have mostly Apple devices and I'm always making sure updates are installed. But the more I learn, the more it seems that isn't enough. Some research shows there are lots of products/services out there monitoring/protecting business/enterprise (e.g. CloudStrike) but is there a product/service that exists specifically geared for individuals/families? Thanks!

[0] - https://darknetdiaries.com

[1] - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/99

[2] - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100
So ... desktop quantum computers could also be radioactive?
"fancy" liquor decanters are often some of the worst offenders, because the alcohol increases the leaching speed of the lead from the glass.

https://scotchaddict.com/are-leaded-crystal-decanters-danger...
This reminds me so much of the Angel problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_problem
I'm intrigued by FAISS. Do you know if I can use BERT embeddings with FAISS?
With Spaces shipped I want to recommend Element for my engineering conference. Unfortunately, Element on mobile is still more complicated than FluffyChat -- compare our install guides [0]. I feel the cost of Element when people e-mail me for tech support.

The fact Fluffy instantly lets you sign-in makes Element lag behind in UX, which matters a whole lot for transient conference goers.

[0] https://www.handmade-seattle.com/chat
Yeah. I meant "not much" with regard to tech/work. I'm just a code monkey/netadmin/sysadmin, haven't done much except keep the gears turning.

WRT to some of those people's lives, I've checked in with a couple of those people years after and they have families and kids now, so that is indescribably-heartwarming to see, but not in a back-patting kind of way, if that makes sense.
U.S. Government Demanding Confidential Information of Semiconductor Companies
Which countries do you recommend using a similar service from? (And what are those services called?) OpSec is hard and sometimes you really do need perfect and not "good enough", but, like PGP, there need to actually be viable alternatives available today that you can make a recommendation for, unless you're just concern trolling. (Five Eyes countries are right out, fwiw.)
To some degree it overlaps with Inflex https://twitter.com/inflexhq

But the inspirations differ https://inflex.io/blog/bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle

Enjoy.
> It would be like Biden/Trump ordering JP Morgan to finance Boeing deals, and to coordinate it all with the Treasury and the Central Bank.

No need for that - the US government already finances Beoing's deals.

There is a reason the US-government owned Export-Import Bank is known world-wide as "Boeing's Bank".

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/ex...
Blackout underwater is normally game over, especially as it tends to happen at the end of the dive and because you've run out of oxygen.

The reason that competition freedivers don't die as often as they have blackouts is because they have numerous support team members diving with them that are specifically there to rescue them if they lose consciousness.

What may not be entirely clear from the article is that competitive freedivers hyperventilate. Hyperventilation clears the lungs of CO2 and thus delays the breathing reflex that causes the feeling of suffocation, though without significantly increasing the amount of oxygen. Hyperventilating before a dive increases the risk that oxygen will run out before the breathing reflex kicks in. The training that freedivers undergo is to learn their limits and know exactly how long they can last before this happens.

In the text, there's an oblique reference to how Alexey hyperventilates, in the sentence "The breaths fill his enormous lungs" followed later by "Alexey fills his lungs with one great inhalation". "The breaths", plural, because he's taking multiple, deep breaths to clear his lungs of CO2. Then one last breath to push in as much air as he can.

We then read how he keeps checking the time. A major reason for this, left as subtext to the knowing, is that checking the time is how he keeps track of how much oxygen he has left. Since he's suppressed his breathing reflex he has no other indication of how close he is to suffocating.

As should be obvious, the least error here can be fatal. A blackout is lights out, everybody.

Source: I freedive recreationally, without hyperventilating. I love freediving. Can't freedive dead.
Did you try rate limiting, shadow banning, ip banning etc?
FWIW this has 0 impact on 99.9999% of our current or future users. The only practical limitation is that they cannot repackage Airbyte as a hosted service, which was only ever a threat from perhaps less than 10 players in total. Users can still build products on top of Airbyte, fork it (for their own use or even to build a product on top of it).

Extensive user surveys prior to this change didn't uncover a single user whose workflow would be impacted.

Just some context :)
Agree completely. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1296222-individuals-aren-t-...

“Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings.”

You often hear the weirdest ideas about people from people who don’t socialize much.
Thanks for you feedback, and for sharing the same vision. Stanza is definitely in the same path. We will check it out.
How is that funny? Every platform has to block illegal content. Every platform wants to block low value content like spam. Many platforms want to block obscenity and pornography. None of this is in any way news to any of the platforms you’re alluding to.

The interesting distinction between platforms is not whether they moderate, but what lawful and non-abusive (of the platform itself) content they permit.

Edit: Child is incorrect. The vast majority of moderation on free speech platforms is criminal threats and other illegal speech.
You can treat it with chelation or EDTA. The drugs bind to lead and your body clears it out via the kidneys. Works well if you catch it early.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...
Of course they have an option! They can follow the law, not fire their workers for making their own choices about (non)representation, and just not get the tax credit.

Saying that Tesla would be forced to do anything here is absurd. I'm not the one making an "argument predicated on not giving the workers the right to choose."
I learnt of it from Kipling's wonderful "Puck of Pook's Hill"
Yep, shadow ban was in place as well.

The thing is, the people that weren't the ones posting the content. It appeared their computer was affected by some type of malicious file to be part of a bigger network. (botnet?)

I could see from the thousands of different IPs in different countries around the globe, that it could be affected personal computers.

Very few of them were computers from hosting companies, the rest were normal people computers.

I'm sure these machines were doing the job, someone else would have tests the result.

When we did the shadow banning it didn't made a dent in their effort.

The way they changed email, changed username, tried to be unique was completely prepared specifically for our platform (I would guess so)

Whenever we counter their attack, they would be silent for a while and then attack again. They would adjust.

Shadow ban is effective when the attacker themselves will not be aware it, in our case it was tricky to know who was the observer.
Can you post a link to his tweet, please?
This part interested me:

> believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld

When we were kids, my brother and I would keep away from dead bees because they "might come back to life". We had probably been warned that the bee might be dormant, or that the mechanism of the stinger can still trigger even after the bee is dead. Maybe a friend gave us a mixed up version of the facts. The way we had it set it in our heads was that dead bees could come back to life.
they already have an incentive to botch investigations when their buddies are involved. Maybe this makes the incentive slightly greater but you shouldn’t rely on cops to investigate their buddies anyway
How do you know someone uses Google? Well, virtually everyone does, so they probably do.