skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article title is misleading.

A non misleading title would be: “common sunscreen chemical filters may become more toxic when zinc oxide is present”

The paper was evaluating the effect of zinc oxide on these chemicals:
> Octisalate (INCI: Octyl salicylate; CAS: 118-60-5) was purchased from TCI Chemicals. DHHB (INCI: Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate; CAS: 302776-68-7; received as UVINUL® A PLUS) and Bisoctrizole (INCI: Methylene bis-benzotriazolyl tetramethylbutylphenol; CAS: 103597-45-1; received as TINOSORB® M, a 50% aqueous suspension of the UV-filter)

And also solvated them in DMSO, while being hand wavy about the potential interactions of dmso like functioning as a carrier agent, instead claiming because dmso is safe for the fish in isolation it won’t change the study… their study is claiming evaluating things in isolation is misleading and yet they do exactly that. Ughhhh

And I’m not an animal chemical effect specialist, but are zebra fish embryos really that representative of human skin exposure?

That said, further analysis does need done on mixed sunscreens. Even though I think this paper has issues, hopefully it spurs more and better research. And it does show that mixed sunscreen chemicals may cause more degradation of the organic components, so that definitely needs follow up studies.
My guess: There's a small inaccuracy in the map data (I can think of a number possible ways this could happen) leading the cars to think that the dead end road connects somehow to where they want to go, but it doesn't. So they give up but don't update the data for the rest of the fleet.

Something like that. Theres a false link in the graph.
2OO1 not 2001
I would also plug Dominic Gates from the Seattle Times ( https://twitter.com/dominicgates ) with his on the ground (ha) reporting on the Lazy B
Commodities trade at the margin, because there are many times more futures contracts than actual deliveries, but the people that actually take delivery and need these commodities to run their operations, will pay whatever price necessary to get them and not stop production. The effect of this is to make the markets extremely volatile.
cli programs, they all have different ways to handle arguments, options, help

ps: another instance, albeit not a BSD strength either, would be data format, every output is different, I, like a few people too wanted some json as pivot representation to cut the thousands of papercuts, that kind of uniformity is what I expect from "system"
I've also enjoyed visiting regular cafés (or really coffee shops in the states), mostly to have a beverage and work quietly from a laptop or read, at their off-peak or "anti-hours".
"What’s next .. The working draft .. Create a plan"

Yes, but the real problem is that the people in power have actually just realised that there is a problem, and they can't buy it off.

The "plan" right now is to extend the needed extreme measures to 10 or 20 years time when the current generation of clued-up kids will be in power: I hate to think what they'll have to work with though.
Reason for my switch was that some key things (for me) were designed in a way that seemed more right that on linux and this is totally subjective opinion.

I am still running ubuntu on laptop and will switch when the next install is a thing, but I am running freebsd on server for years now and while i tremble on each update for the laptop, I dont for freebsd, even when updating from 12.x to 13.x.

Based on years of experience on both operating systems. I was surprised only once when freebsd made change where the base network settings weren't by default copied into fibs (you wont encounter this... probably ever) and even then I needed an hour to figure what the change was.

On the other side, I no longer count the nasty surprises the linux distributions played on me (like /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten by systemd resolv, just as trivial change). My laptop is unbootable for a year as they messed something regarding the order of zpool import (bpool being imported before rpool - probably a race condition) so i have to import it manually or it doesnt boot, while I have freebsd zfs root for ~10 years and it never failed me.

Details like that made me insecure about linux. And on the other side, made me highly secure about freebsd.

I think that (again, this is subjective, speaking only for myself)...

I... trust... BSD... guys. Based on experience.

I... dont trust linux... distributions. Based on experience.

But it might just be me.
In three minutes, you created an account and posted four comments: This one, and three others calling people faggots.
And once these vehicles become sentient they’ll be flocking away from San Francisco.
Huh, I wonder why you'd made a new account to espouse this opinion?
I wonder if the rubber structural spokes could be shaped to pull air from the underside of the vehicle (tire rotation would be slightly more complicated) to increase stability at higher speeds.
I love covid!

I want Fauci to fuck me in the ass cause I'm cocksucking faggot.

FUCK ME IN THE ASS!

FUCK ME IN THE ASS!

Faggots!
Doesn't really work when the factories and suppliers supply companies located outside of China and who can make that happen without the consent of the CCP.

Either way, it's not clear-cut. Sure China can do that. Great now they can pay those workers since companies like Apple won't be paying them...
Cool, thanks for your perspective!
I'm not the GP (clearly), but... You mean, having the Brazilian people be denied chances of getting less poor by some high polluting countries that made the (implied correct) choice to destroy their biodiversity before the 20th century because we are unable to stop individuals from destroying part of what we preserved until today?

I don't see any chance of this not going bad. It would set the climate to somebody much worse than Bolsonaro to get into power. I don't see how the GP could ever want it, but there is a small and loud political movement that does ask for it.

(By the way, Mercosul is popular in Brazil. Preserving forests is too. Preserving non-forest biodiversity is less popular, but as soon as people see the choice, they like it. All of those have strong opposition from small groups.)
I have, but again, it's the UV-VIS spectrophotometer access that I need.
Personally I'd buy an aircraft carrier if I had $10B. Nevertheless, there are plenty of people willing to put it in Gitlab or they wouldn't IPO. A better question might have been: what's the bull argument for Gitlab?
UVA is a disinfectant now? To me it’s clear he’s listing things he’s heard and UVA and disinfectant are unrelated topics of discussion.

The ridicule heaped on him was not about him mentioning things that were discussed around him. It’s that he clearly had a very weak grasp of what was being discussed and couldn’t then clearly communicate that and ended up sounding completely incompetent.
The first Sony store opened in 1970 in Canada
She is not whistleblower, she is a front
Shouldn’t we be looking at the inflation adjusted price before declaring a new record?
I’m not sure about this startup but I am sure you shouldn’t pay attention to Twitter eat-the-rich mobs.
OpenBSD WireGuard VPN servers make me happy.
This is why keeping HTTP open is an accessibility must-have, despite the low risk of ISP MITM and such.

There are millions of devices out there already which are usable for many tasks like reading, searching, and non-critical writing, as long as HTTP is allowed.

HTTPS/SSL introduces many accessibility issues, such as for people with older devices, those who do not know how to set their clock correctly, and many other scenarios.
The Dawn of Quantum Natural Language Processing
the criticism of underpaid foreign labor is entirely fair, but that’s largely a government failure to rein in labor exploitation and to regulate markets for fairness and competitiveness. in a well-functioning market, you’d have competition (slowly) drive profits down as the many competitors figure out ways to attract and retain customers through price and differentiation.

that’s not to underplay apple’s role in exploiting labor and international legal differences. however, it’s telling that apple employees are protesting going into the office rather than global labor exploitation, while patting themselves on the back for being green (removing chargers ‘for the planet’).
Lets not forget about OPEC+. They reduced the supply significantly due to the pandemic and haven't increased the oil supply back to the normal levels. Higher oil prices is causing inflation, not the other way around.
They don't change it every six months. You look in the release notes and check if anything changed. Heck, there have been years where no changes were required.
Let me plug my personal project, which is similar to what's presented here: http://weathernomad.com
I believe mid day sun is the best for producing vitamin d though.
>It's hidden somewhere in the menus

File > Merge with database

I saved my database's password as an entry just to quickly merge it with the .sync-conflict version. It takes 2 seconds, and I don't worry about losing anything anymore. Works beautifully for me. KeePass could check for such conflicts (syncthing, dropbox or else) in the directory where the open database is stored and suggest to auto-merge.
I was actually looking into this as well. I recently switched my server to NixOS and the declarative configuration has been really nice to work with and fits easily into my workflow/tools (emacs with tramp).

I’d be really interested in seeing a variant on top of openbsd that has a comparable declarative layer. If anyone knows of such projects, please share!
Your next throwaway should be named NothingburgerEmoji
Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China
Easier to change your business model now, and think getting more signal from referrals could be solved with new incentives, but mostly agree with the criticisms.
Central banks definitely have demonstrated their willingness to print. However, the Fed's mandate also includes managing inflation, meaning they're unlikely to continue the printing if that contributes higher inflation.
The other shoe is tenured faculty get their abusive research transgressions smoothed over and covered up by their institutions because firing is too much trouble.

Improperly consent human research subjects? Abuse children? Abuse students? Hire an unqualified fitness instructor FWB to oversee research data? Have to return a multimillion grant?

Just give said students free tuition and go back to making performative "woke" press releases about the abuser like it never happened.

Of course in states like Georgia they probably don't really care about that kind of thing either, so much as weeding out "liberals" or something.
I agree. It's a typical error of judgement from people that know things superficially. "All electronic music sounds the same", "all FIFA games are the same", "all soccer matches are the same". We simplify things that we know little about or things where we have poor proficiency. But experts can see the slightest differences and nuances.
A pebble shooting out of the upper side of a tire of a car at 250 km/h is probably as bad as a bullet. Probably worse.
For one, her channel is firmly oriented towards a lay audience; she explains topics in physics in relatively simple terminology. That limits the level of discourse.

Second, she's not a fusion researcher, she's a theoretical physicist. It's possible that she made an error (though I can't speak to whether that's actually the case, as I know next to nothing about physics generally).

Third, I don't think she really implied that research progress is entirely tied to Q. But YMMV.
There was a small decrease of light sweet production during the downturn. When the use rebounded, OPEC voted to keep production growth behind use growth. This helps nurture our steadily rising prices and reduce the chance of blowback from suddenly skyrocketing prices.

At the same time Louisiana production took a hurricane hit and that helped reduce supply a bit more.
Since you're concerned with context, they'd previously been discussing actual disinfectant. The slide is pictured in the BBC's coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

> "COMMONLY AVAILALBLE DISINFECTANTS (Bleach & Isopropyl Alcohol) work to kill the virus"
Remember when all of these points applied to webpack, when it was the “single simple fast tool” to replace everyone’s grunt scripts?

It seems there’s a feature treadmill at work here where projects inexorably bloat as they get popular. But we tried “compose tools in the Unix way” with grunt too, and that led to spaghetti scripts, unique to each project, that were hard to reason about. I wonder if there is a middle way that can prevent the tool from giving in to the pressure to add features.
Hmm, I always thought conformity-culture was the cause of social accountability of outliers. My go to example for this is the highly individual valuing, yet Patagonia vest wearing finance bros. Conformity without collectivism. It's a thing and it's much more insidious than the collectivism-conformity script we got growing up.
No, I'm not. I'm mostly alone in the rather big office (although there are neighbor offices above and below obviously) and I've specifically mentioned the woods. I probably just have a too intense aura and may need a new-age guru to get me a magic pyramid to harmonize it :-]

Is there a BlueTooth channel scanner by the way? Like the "WiFi analyzer" app but for BlueTooth?
On mental health and gender equality in tech. Fireside chat [video]
Nice article! I used similar techniques to find solutions for a game called “DStar”… including the choice to write the solver in Rust. You can play the game and see the optimal solutions on the web (not tested on mobile):

https://www.moria.us/games/dstar/play

A state in this game is:

enum Active {
Ball,
Block,
}

struct State {
coins: u32, // bitmask of which coins remain
active: Active, // which player is active
ball: Point, // location of ball
block: Point, // location of block
}

I thought about writing an A* solver for this, but a simple BFS found all the solutions quickly enough. With a single-threaded solver, each level could be solved in 40s or less. The longest solutions are around 100 moves long, and the entire set of 25 levels is solved with 2.5 minutes of CPU time.
As you get faster and more comfortable with getting things done, you have the time to improve your quality. I've found this blog post inspirational:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
> The very point of that council, which is brand new, is to give transparency and insight into the energy mix used to mine Bitcoin.

No, it isn't. Per the website:

> The mandate of the Bitcoin Mining Council is to promote transparency, share best practices, and educate the public on the benefits of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining.

So group that says it exists to promote Bitcoin mining and educate the public on the supposed benefits of Bitcoin mining publishes a study claiming that Bitcoin mining is super sustainable at a time when one of the biggest criticisms of Bitcoin is its energy use. Shocking!

> You should never take any claim at face value, but it's quite lazy to dismiss their data without backing it up.

It's the other way around. Groups making claims are responsible for backing them up, and there's arguably a higher standard for special interest groups who are conflicted and make claims that just happen to support their interests. Claims like Bitcoin is "one of the most sustainable industries globally" and "the network remains as strong as ever, it simply shrugs off adversity and moves forward".

Based on the press release and YouTube slides, this survey relied on self-reported data from parties who volunteered to answer 3 questions, with no independent verification that any of them responded accurately or truthfully. The responses (supposedly) cover (only) "32 percent of the current global Bitcoin network".
Well, the point isn't that my bank wouldn't "leak" my details - I certainly don't trust them that far. So it's absolutely possible for a random person to get my phone number from the bank. But if a random person were to phone me and tell me that my bank gave them my phone number to be helpful, I'd be calling that out as a lie.
The way that I think about it is in terms of N-dimensional spheres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

If you checkout the formulas there, you may notice that as the number of dimensions of the sphere increase, then the greater amount of "volume" of the sphere ends up right next to the surface of the sphere. For high dimensional spheres, the majority of "volume" is right at the edge of the sphere. Or poetically, The further you swim into the ocean the deeper the water gets.

So, my metaphor is that if you have a field which has many different orthogonal aspects (like programming does) then the beginners (living in the exact center of the sphere) will have a relatively shallow space to swim around in. This experience can be understood and optimized. However, the further you get from the center, the greater the possible volume of space that you have to explore. At the very beginning of a programming journey you're swimming in a puddle, but at the end you're swimming in a gas giant.

I suspect that there's so much space in programming alone (not even counting software engineering) that each individual programmer on earth has the opportunity to end up in a unique ocean. Coming up with any guidelines for THAT feels like a failing venture.

Although that didn't stop me from trying. You'll notice that there isn't actually any way for us to describe bad code. We've just got best practices and code smells. Best practices just being "someone else was successful once and also doing this" and code smells being "this code makes my tummy feel bad ... no I can't quantify that".

I think I've got a metric that can explain why code is bad regardless of language and domain. Although there's still a lot of work to do. Also, this is only one aspect of what you would need to do in order to design a powerful programming language for experts. I suspect we're currently in the very beginning of an effort that's going to take easily a hundred years (at least) for humanity to figure out.
Facebook's newsfeed algorithms are actively tailoring the content that is surfaced in your newsfeed in a manner that encourages 'engagement', but this quest for engagement creates false narratives and an inaccurate understanding of reality. People engage with combative and controversial content that supports their biases or triggers a few discrete emotional centers like disgust, outrage, and strong in-group/out-group distinctions. I also do more that just 'believe' this, I know it to be true for a fact.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Manipulations for Cloth Unfolding
As expected, the only non-negative comments I see on the Internet about skiptheinterview are from HN.

notsurprised.jpg
Other than "momentary" blindness, it feels like some people don't look at their monitors three-dimensionally: It's just buttons and fields everywhere, there's no physical separation between them, there's no hierarchy. They just learn to operate some UIs mechanically and don't put any thought into it. That's why they whine when something moves; As far as they're concerned, that something disappeared into an alternate universe.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) was pretty much a fully distributed team upon IPO. They had offices, but they were more like "coworking cafes", where folks who happened to be in the same geographic area would meet up, or have social celebrations. At least, that's my understanding, tracking the company since its early days. On a recent podcast, Shay Banon described it as a fully distributed team of 2,000+ folks.[1] They IPO'ed in 2018.[2]

[1]: https://pca.st/kvgw4iz9

[2]: https://twitter.com/kimchy/status/1048595935088009216
I'd love to try but I'm experiencing hardcore option paralysis every time I start thinking about it.

FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD – _that_ is the question.

Wait, maybe DragonFly actually? illumos? ...wait, I mean OpenIndiana, I think... wait, what's OmniOS? Is Darwin a thing, like I could just have BSD and macOS for free or something?
This statement is very unsettling.

Are you claiming that any discussion that someone or some group deems "outdated", "conventional" or "unsophisticated deserves to be suppressed on those grounds, and that those who defend such views are to be treated in the manner Stock has been treated?

What gender theory posits is controversial, to say the least, and it is itself quite new and highly problematic despite what your claims seem to suggest. Stock is also a feminist which belies the notion that she is defending anything that could conceivably be characterized as a traditional understanding of the subject matter.
> No one’s going to blame a whistleblower who uncovers someone harming children.

Of course they are. The idea that "no one", even in the vernacular sense of the term, will blame a whistleblower for literally anything is naive; there are too many people who are terminally incapable of faulting a C corporation for acting against the body politic.

> It becomes much more of a gray area if the whistleblower uncovers someone trying to find out what effects, positive and negative if any kind, harmful, long-term, short-term or otherwise, that their product might be having.

Not when those people doing that investigation find something they don't like and bury it because it's inconvenient for their bottom line. Which Facebook did. It's not a gray area at all. Not in the slightest.

> Is a leak worthy if no one is arrested or taken to court, and all we get to do is tut-tut a little more sanctimoniously?

Yes, it is an unmistakable good to have the operations of megacorporations with more effective power than many governments as transparent as possible. People matter more than companies, and the behaviors of those companies are fundamentally relevant to the behavior of people in their polities.

A company at Facebook's scale (or Apple's, etc.) should have no secrets not directly related to user or employee privacy. If they don't want to have eyes on them, don't be megacorporations. We've seen far too many diseconomies of scale with regards to fundamental and foundational morality to assume anything else.
I've long thought that maybe we should just measure everything in joules and call it a day.
Stores also function as service centres.

Lots of people only use the Apple store to get things fixed.

The store is just a physical extension of apples drive to put the customer experience first.
The massive disinformation campaigns remind me of Neal Stephenson's idea of an "artificial inanity" crisis on the fictional internet ("reticulum") in his book Anathem.

In the past a major problem of information management was that it was just plain hard to get information. Now it is easy to get information, but it is hard to tell what is genuine and what is misinformation (inadvertently wrong) or disinformation (maliciously wrong).

How much worse will it get when near-Turing-complete troll bots crank out disinformation on the commands of various powers with varying interests?

[1] https://englishwotd.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/artificial-inan...
For me the laptop must have at least these minimum features if money is no objection:

1) Weight about 1 kg. I do carry another e-ink reader in my bag thus a lighter laptop is a big plus.

2) Minimum 2K resolution. Once you have used 2K screen the Full HD just don't cut it anymore.

3) Military grade certification for drop. I once dropped my laptop bag from shoulder height containing less than a month laptop but because it has military grade for drop it did survived (albeit some scratches) until more than 2 years later, today.

4) At least 128 GB RAM (preferably ECC) if I am buying a new laptop because you can never has enough RAM :-)
I hope these notes could be useful for others too.
Endangered Archive of Siberian Indigenous Voices to Be Digitised