skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate it too. The one thing that does make me a bit optimistic is that firstly that for quite a few of the big issues, things are gradually getting better (leaded petrol having been phased out, PBDEs are on the way out, average quantities of things like phthalates and PFOA in people's blood I believe are dropping in most places). The shift away from fossil fuels could be another massive health improvement - studies on fine particulate matter in the last few years show that they might be far, far worse for our health than was thought, and phasing out especially diesel and petrol for transport, as well as coal power and switching homes from gas to electric appliances will make a huge difference.

But it's also comforting to me seeing what smokers do - if they can suck down that many toxins, time after time, day after day, and it still takes decades to kill them, then as a non-smoker (in a country where smoking is very well regulated so you don't get exposed to a lot of second hand smoke either), that does give me comfort in how robust the human body is!
I bought it. Here's the actual code it injected for a video: https://pastebin.com/fue6KWME
I was born and raised in a small ski town that was a "hidden gem" for a long time. This article covers the issues well.

In one year, it all changed. Housing prices and rent increased drastically -- sometimes by 2x or 3x. Half of my friends and acquaintances have had to move out of town and commute for work. What does it say when a city's essential workers cannot vote on city issues anymore?

The city is not legally allowed to regulate short term rentals, so AirBnB is taking up a significant portion of housing. The city tries to make developers restrict short term rentals on the units they develop instead but with limited success.

Any attempt at new housing is met with fierce resistance by a loud minority with expensive lawyers. Nobody wants the town to change. Everyone who moves here wants to prevent anyone else from following. Some of the people advocating for affordable housing are the same ones trying to jack up property values. So affordable housing is not actually affordable for anyone who needs it.

Businesses are struggling to find employees, and many have closed or limited their hours. At the same time, commercial rents are increasing.

It's a sad mess.
Wouldn't any kind of reduction be a good thing? Even if it just prevents severe illness / hospitalization by the stated amount I'd consider it a win.
Wonderful! I guess you could say the same thing about me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If it's still being built then it likely won't start being used until sometime next year and at that point we're back to optimizing for energy usage. It's best to pick a long term metric over a short term win when dealing with a building that will last for decades.
I chose my words deliberately. It's not, as was argued upthread, exactly what the right wants.
I consume daily a teaspoon each of powdered concentrates of chokeberry (aronia), bilberry, and elderberry. Berry powders are intensely rich on beneficial anthocyanins and other pigments, slow down aging, reduce inflammation, boost immunity. Compounds in elderberry have been reported in the literature as effective against viruses, such that right after covid cases started skyrocketing, elderberry powder was sold out everywhere. I keep all berry powders in the freezer since any higher temperatures result in moisture absorption and clumping.
The original article asserts that this does not work according to their requirements since there's no way to independently verify which is the "real successor chain" - they just have to trust someone's word that chain A is true and chain B is not, and a convincing liar could provide them with opposite data. In schemes like Bitcoin, there's objective validation of the "longest chain" with the most work invested; in your example where would that "record of the real successor chain" come from, and how can it be validated/verified in a decentralized manner in a way that a major ex-staker can't satisfy?

Like, this is trivially solved with a central authority (e.g. have some trusted core developer every day publish a signed message saying "this is the real successor chain"), but it does enable that central authority to arbitrarily bless a fake ex-staker's fork.
I'm thinking more M2M/IoT applications.
Finding that the disease is spreading rapidly and taking precautions as a result is making an evidence-based decision. You seem to be repeating my point here.

The issue is that they really didn't know how rapidly it was spreading at the beginning.
Staffing folks who can fix these systems 24/7 for the 2-3 times a year something needs to happen doesn't seem like a great idea to me. If the systems are failing left and right continually, or if on-call is used to handle things that can be done from a simple runbook? Sure. But at some point you need an escalation path when its more than that, and sooner or later that escalation path goes to whoever built the thing.

These are usually salaried jobs, so "outside of work hour" is kind of subjective, since you're paid to get the job done.

So then it comes to expectations, and $$$$. Software engineer salaries are not just a result of the supply vs demand (well, everything is supply vs demand, of course, but there's subtleties).

It wasn't that long ago (late 90s, early 2000s) that a 9-5 code monkey job was a low paying job. It makes sense: it's not particularly difficult. But then organizations realized that they could get more bangs for their bucks if the same folks could handle uncertainties, if they would train themselves, if they could architect systems on their own, and yes, if they were responsible for keeping the systems running. That, of course, came at a cost. In addition to growing demands raising wages, you also need to pay a premium to get someone to agree to all that crap. And so they did.

But now as so many people entered the field, there's an expectation that the salaries are the baseline, and that the other responsibilities beyond code monkeying are a premium.

Supply and demand will kick in sooner or later, when folks realize that 6 figure salaries for a 9-5 desk job is a really good deal (we already see it happening, where entry level roles are getting hard to come by).

But in the end, the additional duties, like oncall, really have been baked in the salaries. I really don't think its unreasonable to have someone woken up a handful of times when taking salaries that can go as high as competing with a doctor's... (who's also on call).

Now, that's within reason. My partner worked at AWS for a while, and they'd get paged 5-6 times a night on a bad week. F* that. No amount of money is worth screwing over your health.
> If police unions defend officers from all accountability...surprise!

Lots of unions try the same and are far less effective; police unions are not inherently powerful, they are granted power by the fact that the citizenry in the US worships military and paramilitary forces and grants undue deference to them, particularly, in regard to this issue, in selecting the civilian political leaders to whom police are nominally accountable.
Are there any updates on their GSM network? There are rumors that it will be also sunsetted, but I hope it will stay on. GSM is still useful because of its broad compatibility.
Yeah that's on YouTube. I get why it's hard for them, as unlike in Casting, you can only deploy media types that can be natively played back in order to support Airplay, because you are passing a media reference, not a web page. But HLS is ubiquitous and Airplay supports it, so just serve the HLS and be done with it. I've been very happy with how easy it is to support this as someone who has built a number of web media apps.
Still there!
I’m surprised to hear this. I thought that Amazon had moved to offer all mp3 music as DRM-free. I’ve bought a lot of music from them and never been unable to download anything so far.
Li Jin on the future of the creator economy
Well, it seems like you can't do those things when you're asleep... I suppose either you find a way to move those responsibilities to when you're awake or you can't use this technique.
I would be surprised if this is the reason. The South African anti-vax arguments I've read were very similar to the anti-vax arguments I hear here.

None of them argued the vaccines they're receiving are an experimental vaccines, or that the vaccines are a trick. They seem to mostly seem to have concerns about the actual vaccines similar to western anti-vaxxers.
This matches the policy at my children's school - and thankfully the outcome has been the same as well, with no community spread. These seem like reasonable and effective precautions to me.
I don't see why many nations would jump at the opportunity to make Bitcoin their monetary backbone. For example because an immutable monetary policy won't be seen as a feature.
I was thrilled to see the agent based models they glanced at, and the extensive micro simulation they performed to duplicate the patterns seen in the parks.

It's been a while since I did research in those areas, but brought me a smile seeing them in a 100% practical application.
There is a series of videos on the ChipWhisper to recover RSA keys and other fault injection stuff. Super interesting security field.
Lead shot has been federally banned for almost three decades.
I don't read that as them not being safe. They're trying to explain why there's an increase in some symptoms, symptoms we already know about, post vaccine.

Sadly I can't dig too much into that paper because the page is being really buggy.

But having had three shots now and no symptoms I've stopped really caring much to hear any fear mongering. I'm a lot more concerned by new variants.
The YouTube app on Android only supports picture in picture and background play (screen off) with premium; I imagine the iOS app is similar.
I'm pretty certain I worked in an open-floor plan office that had windows designed to "impede" small airplanes being flown into it.

I speculate this fact -after- a someone actually did fly their airplane into our building. The pilot received exceptionally bad customer service from us and was attempting to kill one of our leaders.
Outlaw shaped skis. Everybody has to ski on long, straight skis that can’t be wider than 65 under foot. Watch property values plummet in a week.

Edit: accurate prediction of the future: https://youtu.be/qhuHuQ1Bu3o
Long-run effects of religious persecution: evidence from the Spanish Inquisition
Luispedro/jug: Parallel programming with Python
PDF version of the article:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C3fBfPgWxf-zqezGlPFr7VXIetl...
There's also library genesis that is very good for the more technical content.

Especially because a lot of technical books are really hard too find in Europe in digital format. Very often I get the "not available in your region" message.
> what if I'm out with friends, drunk, high, on the side of a mountain

You can plan around it, assuming a reasonable oncall schedule. If its every other week, yeah screw that. If its a week out of 4, you can plan it and still have it better than virtually every other highly paid profession there is, and many low pay ones.

> My hours are 9-5, after that is entirely me time

Then maybe an hourly job is better than a salaried one... Of course, if you're not paid the part, it's not worth it. But if you're paid 150, 200k or more? I hope you're not expecting 9-5.
Absolutely, who cannot see the manufacturer of a $59.95 router build in a $40/year antivirus service.
Not surprising. T-Mobile has always been a GSM network, CDMA is what they inherited from Sprint.
I used to play it back in around 2002. I'm in New Zealand. I heard about it from a friend telling a friend.

Great game.
This is very cool and very old.
Thank you! I will look into it. I found something similar from a company called WoodyKnows I think. But the Amazon reviews were not positive so I ended up not ordering it. I usually like sleeping without a shirt and will probably be hot sleeping with something like this. But I guess it's worth trying at least if I can return it.

One reviewer mentioned their best solution was buying a vest and sewing a few pockets in the back for tennis balls.
Super cool, I didn't know this existed and would have loved building it in the 90s. At least I had access to Erector sets, Capsela, and hobby-level RC cars though.

Such models are a great way to learn how such machines work on a high level, but it's still missing some significant details. In hindsight I kind of wish someone left a busted small displacement sportbike engine in my parents' garage once I learned how to turn a wrench. It's an incredibly compact package containing a high-strung DOHC engine, multi-disc clutch, and multi-speed constant-mesh gearbox w/shifter. Just remember to drain the oil before conveniently forgetting about it in a dark corner for your inquisitive kid to discover.
Arguably the importance of availability and time to restore service is less about if the company is global and more about the nature of the services they provide to their customers.

Global ecommerce company letting people buy junk they don't need 24/7 at low low prices? An outage may frustrate customers and lose some sales but they might get most of the customers back in the long run, even if it takes them days to get the site to come back up and stay up.

Bits of the local electricity grid get damaged? Communications for ambulance dispatch go down and stay down? Those outages may directly cause fatalities or greatly increase the risk of fatalities until problems are safely isolated and service can be restored.
Slavery should have been outlawed, but the gun bit isn’t so bad, I think.

But I think, at the time, slavery was still legal in most of the world so while it would have been right to outlaw it, it’s understandable how it was allowed. And the amendments outlawing it actually show how the constitution works as ideas change over time.

If Americans change their opinion on guns then that could change as well. But I don’t think that will happen in 34 states.
Was given the 8880 Super Car as a kid. Pretty sure it's the only reason I survived a vacation on an island having, unexpectedly, no automatic transmission cars.
In the US, for legal protection, I would say $10M is a good number based on legal costs I have seen. Maybe $5M works too, but I would say $5M protects you from healthcare costs and not being able to earn income due to health issues, but a little more is nice for paying lawyers if you are also not able to work at the same time.
It seemed strange that T-Mobile would have a CDMA network, until you remembered that it came from Sprint.

This seems like good news. I'm glad that starting with LTE all the carriers started agreeing on a single platform with SIM cards. Even though there are little nuances between each carrier, the fact that you can buy a single phone and have it work with the four (three now) major carriers is a big deal.
Latex is not semantic, the fact it's using macro (which are factoring function calls) says it all. There is some degree of separation between content and presentation, but that's it.
CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly
also if it was more deadly, presumably that would lead to people taking it more seriously.

E.g. HIV is asymptomatic for a long time, but is ultimately deadly, so people use condoms because of that (of course there are other STDs as well, but I feel like HIV plays the biggest role in condom use).
If its effects were less serious, it would probably be far more widespread (e.g. like HPV).

With covid more deadlines would probably lead to people would using masks more often, taking rapid treats more often, etc.
Waw, great memories. The set also came with instruction booklet to make an F1 car, which was just as cool.
Troubleshooting and mitigating an outage always take priority over anything else. In that sense on call is my job, and I could wake my entire team or ask them to drop everything else if I really needed to.

But if I understand the design and code well enough to do that, why wouldn’t I also work on features and fixes in between outages? Why divide the roles when you have to choose among the same small group of people for either?
Although this would be a good outcome, my understanding is that the inherent mutation rate of the virus makes settling on a single variant or family of non-deadly variants unlikely. Even if a variant became endemic with a death rate of 0.05% for example, unless this mutation is at a near global optima in terms of transmissibility, I imagine it would be a precarious situation.
The kids have always been exposed to this stuff, it's unavoidable. Focus on the big wins and don't worry about the small stuff - law of diminishing returns. Eliminating ppb of lead isn't going to move the needle versus getting your kid immunized.

You'll drive yourself crazy otherwise.
If you feel ad-supported content is flat out unethical, how would you prefer to pay for media online?
You should probably read the "Expression of Concern" that the AHA has already attached to that abstract (it's a link under the title); namely the part that says "...there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used." (They also mention the typographical errors, but I didn't put that at the forefront because that may be a formatting issue and not the researcher's fault.)

Also, and this is something I'm not clear on, but is this just an abstract? It doesn't seem like there's an associated paper or any data beyond what's mentioned there.

There's a few other issues, too; like, for example, they don't compare mRNA vaccine recipients to people who have recovered from COVID-19 (one would expect that a test that measures inflammation would see increased inflammation in both populations); or that, frankly, the PULS test the publishing doctor developed doesn't seem to explain how it turns a set of arbitrary biological markers into a score that correlates to risk of heart issues.

I would, at best, say that this abstract could be used to establish a hypothesis for a future study. On its own, it tells me basically nothing.
The appropriate vice-consul takes over, presumably.
IMO The problem people have with gypsies is that they're distinctly different culture. They have found ways to benefit from the social system without giving anything in. That naturally frustrates many taxpayers.

I blame the faulty social system for that. For example, if you never work a day in your life you get higher pension payout as in that case it is based on nationwide average wage. It basically penalizes getting a job.
This really seems like the best solution by far.
The client can choose properly, but it needs to "call a friend" in order to get the options - if the client doesn't receive the proper chain but only fake ones, it will chose the fake one with the most work done on it.
That's mostly because our industry is a bit of a mess. We clearly have different people doing completely different roles that are in the same career ladder with the same title. Forget on call, some folks with the same titles and same salaries often do easier or harder jobs. That's a separate problem.

Salaries in the industry have a lot of expectations baked in, like the expectations of being able to learn and train yourself without the company having to pay for it (aside the occasional paid book). Being on call is another. That some folks can get the same pay regardless of their responsibilities or how hard their job actually is is, indeed, a problem.
Uhh there is no amount of lead anyone should have in a day.

Unless you want to isolated yourself from everything, you're going to be exposed to things like arsenic, lead and other toxins from natural sources. That's why we have minimal allowable exposure limits.
Kind of insures that things will remain conservative because environmentalists won't move there because they are certain it's doooooooooomed!
yep that's right.
The free market is precisely what gave this particular makeup of voters and activist home owners the keys to the kingdom. If you can't afford to pay to play in that municipality, you don't get to vote.
Arsenic in rice is due to exactly that, pulling naturally occurring arsenic from the water used for irrigation.
Probably the only reasonable way of guaranteeing clean plant food sources is to use hydroponics, and to manufacture fertilizer yourself. Distilling water is easy, and buying the chemicals for fertilizer seems doable. But you'll want to make your own hdpe containers, and silicone tubing, so you don't get unlisted phthalates or plasticizer. GRAS and "food safe" classifications are fine, for things that are actually looked for, but mistakes are made, and most failures seem to favor producers, not consumers.

The question boils down to the actual harms you're mitigating and what constitutes the appropriate response.
This was 100% a decision based on regulations.
The first clinical trial for Pfizer was done in April of 2020, Sputnik was started in June. The difference was Pfizer went through far more and more time consuming clinical trials.

I don't know if you can blame FDA's risk adverse views on capitalism.
Don't forget TrackerZapper to strip tracking codes from copied URLs: https://rknight.me/apps/tracker-zapper/
Username checks out. It's not the same: HTML is interpreted and often modified on the fly (with JavaScript), with the source being a click away, but it's still just HTML. On the other hand Latex documents are compiled into other formats like PDF that are distributed, instead of the Latex source.
No, a constitutional convention isn't close, and, contrary to the suggestions in that article, no particular threat to established rights would be posed by the lack of procedural guidelines for such a convention because any Amendment proposed by a convention would still need a 3/4 of the states to ratify it.
I think it actually goes in cycles. I've noticed a lot more people conversing in Discord and small group chats these days than saying everything on big open platforms.
Cognitive performance starts declining at 1000 ppm.
Picture-in-picture works great on Android without premium.

No background play though.
Not only are phones cross network compatible, with eSIM support, you can provision new service within minutes on any supported carrier, no physical SIM required.
Thanks. I generally agree but the definition ‘small stuff’ is in relation to how harmful it is. I cook a lot at home and I use a lot of spices — including the brands that tested high for heavy metals. Lead is not safe in any amount particularly for babies. The hard thing to know is what things I should and shouldn’t be paying attention to.
I've not used an iPhone for a while, but according to Google search:

> The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro will ditch 3D Touch in favor of "Haptic Touch," according to Apple's website. ... The new iPhones' Haptic Touch will be responsive to how long users hold down, but not the force of the tap.

I would love that feature, but I think it has to be very integrated into the software and the APIs of the phone OS or no one will actually use it.
If you subscribe to Youtube, that money doesn't go to creators unless you watch them through a means Google tracks, e.g. the embeds, AFAIK
Selling more vaccines.
I've seen milk bags in the US, but it was giant ones to load these machines: https://www.silverking.com/project/majestic-series-milk-disp...
It's not actually needed, its simply a convenience for users who just want it to work out of the box. You can hand configure the bootstrapping process with -connect and -addnode if you wish.
What I find confusing is why BMW couldn't find another interior feature to remove so cars could ship with a touchscreen. For example, removing the wireless charging for certain models. I feel that having the infotainment screen would be used on every drive vs wireless charging.