skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a sad situation, email today. I ran my own self hosted email for close to a decade but finally gave up on it because mail that I send gets flagged as spam every now and then and I also received a ton of spam. Those two things were eating away my time. And either way, basically everyone who I correspond with use third party mail hosting so it’s not like it did much good that I was self hosting it anyway.

Email as a whole really is a mess. An outdated protocol with too many bandaids and a fundamentally broken model.

But what can we do?
TikTok to Open Its Own 'TikTok Kitchen' Chain of Delivery-Only Restaurants
> I would be extremely curious about the ratio that is thankful to the party versus thankful that they've escaped.

Escaped? Lolololol.

If China is as bad as the western mainstream media or some of those anti-China YouTube channels make it out to be, then all of those Chinese students (middle class or above) that studied in western countries would do whatever they could to stay but the majority go back to China to live and work.

Of all the Chinese friends I made in China, some are not satisfied with the CCP, mainly to do with the issue of free speech/censorship and that you cannot criticise the CCP openly. I would say the majority love their country, including the ones that studied in western countries.
Took me some time to get used to it. And I also had to do lots of layout customization as well.
What makes you say that? I've had good speedups with Strassen multiplication in variable precision (or with floating-point, in case you meant fixed-point arithmetic).
The stairs as better benches comparison is great.

It also mentions the [Los Angeles Loop](https://socalstairclimbers.com/los-angeles-loop/) which I had never heard of. Interesting post
>You cannot be certain that this was entirely "spontaneous".

Yes, and it's not my business to find out. It's the job of CPSC and investigators to find the reasons. Which is why I insisted the OP should file a report.

And as for establishing certainty, I'm not a judge or a jury, whose job it is to do so. Which is why I suggested the OP should take it to court.

>Hell, it's possible that a high-energy particle from space hit the battery in his headphones in just the right spot and that's why it exploded. Would you hold Bose responsible in that case?

I can't hold Bose responsible, the courts and CPSC can. Since it's also possible that OP was, you know, correct in his assessment, this case should get their attention.
Postgres happens to be a very good hammer, thank you very much. You should try it sometime.

But seriously though, postgres's relational logic implementation makes for a very good queueing system for most cases. It's not a hack that's bolted on top. I know that's how quite a few "DBs" are designed and implemented, and maybe you've been burned by too many of them, but Postgres is solid. I've seen it inside and out.
You're thinking the 0.01%. The 0.1% got busted trying to pass off their kids as athletes. The 1% can afford good school districts, extra curriculars, and test prep.
The fact that people trust open-source at all is a testament to how well-managed most FOSS projects are. There are just a few bad apples that you have to look out for.
> very little lithium in the lithium battery

Do you know what the percentage is? Some Googling suggests around 4% by weight or so?
> “Isn’t the essence of the Apple product that you achieve coolness simply by virtue of owning it? It doesn’t even matter what you’re creating on your Mac Air. Simply using a Mac Air, experiencing the elegant design of its hardware and software, is a pleasure in itself, like walking down a street in Paris. Whereas, when you’re working on some clunky, utilitarian PC, the only thing to enjoy is the quality of your work itself.”

Whoever writes this lacks knowledge of the world, and yet decides to express an opinion on it. The fact that it’s a celebrated author like Franzen, makes it even worse.
A “Mac Air” is a wondrous machine. It’s so good that it makes you FORGET about the machine so much better than a clunky PC. So, if anything, the opposite of what Franzen write is actually true.
A lithium ion battery has about 2-3% as much energy per gram as a chocolate bar. The energy density is not what causes safety issues.
>While the keywell idea is amazing, i found that the two halves of the keyboard weren't angled towards each other enough and I still had very painful ulnar deviation.

The big change with this one is it looks like tenting angle, cant and separation are completely configurable in this iteration, so if anything this one might help the issues you've had.
It’s a balance, it’s also necessary to look at the costs of preventative measures.
Is there data about infection + two doses of vaccines against omicron? Scientists/Doctors in India have been claiming that's the best combination of protection one could have and if true that would cover significant chunk of our population.

There seems to be data from UK that two doses of type-X vaccine followed by a booster of type-Y vaccine being more effective against Omicron.

Different types of vaccines platforms being mRNA vaccines(Pfizer, Moderna etc.), Inactivated whole virus vaccines(CoVaxin,CoronaVac etc.), Pure DNA Vaccine(Zydus), DNA vector vaccines(Astrazenica/Covishield etc.) and upcoming protein subunit vaccines.
Also an absurdly long superconductor.
The notion of "black spaces" is one two two logical jumps from Jim Crow. I don't see how more people don't realize the implications of that term.
When this conversation comes up I am reminded of this picture:

[1]: https://reshmasanthosh91.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/picture...

As an immigrant to the US, your family likely had some level of success in order to afford to be able to come here. It is not easy to immigrate to the US. After all the people who uproot their lives are the brave ones who are willing to put in the work. This success was aided from a mentality that was ingrained over multiple generations.

I have noticed this mentality with multiple immigrants from various countries. What you may not have internalized is the context in which all these people have grown up in the US.

You need to suspend your biases for a moment: Imagine you are born in the inner city, your parents may not even be together(divorced or missing) during your formative years and money is always a struggle.

Now add in the local community is super rough and there may be a local culture of discouragement in excelling(ie, you are targeted by others if you stick out and try to escape your circumstances).

Now include an overpopulated school system that may or may not be extremely underfunded.

Finally sprinkle on the chance that if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could end up in jail due to circumstance beyond your control(you are around a robbery/killing despite not participating in it) or worse accidentally shot by a cop.

If you end up in jail, you are finished for life as this system is extremely harsh on people who enter the system. It is extremely difficult to escape the system once you enter. You may be hosed for generations.

Now you may ask, how did the family end up in that spot to begin with? Well it could go all the way back to slavery. The White slaveowners may have lost their slaves but they profited from the wealth created by the slaves in the form of infrastructure or equity. That wealth does not disappear and is passed down from generation to generation.

Now combine this with more modern practices like Redlining which served to invest in White America after WW2 while purposely excluding everyone else. Again white families building up additional wealth over generations while minorities are locked out. Is it any surprise we are in the current situation?

On another note: A lot of modern immigrants have tech to thank for their miracle in life. Here is an industry which the local population is not massively adept in and pays way above average salaries. It is a once in a generation opportunity for masses of immigrants to cut the line and catch up to white America that has generations of equity. In some cases, immigrants are blowing past white America (since rural America is flatlining). I hate the fact that many immigrants are ignorant of this reality. It will lead to people worse than Trump and sometimes it terrifies me that it will blow up in the immigrants faces when the incumbent citizenry has had enough and they push back.
>Nothing is perfectly safe. People should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale.

Including the business of selling self-exploding headphones.

Corporations should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale where they can pull off shit like that off without consequence.

Can't make safe headphones? Leave it to someone who can. Free market or something.

(In case you're not getting it, it's not about living in fairy tales, it's about increasing the cost of failure to corporations to a high enough point that they will put some money into safety instead of pocketing it.)
A consumer would learn this by having interest in the world around them and how it works beyond being slapped in the face with every warning possible (I’m looking at you, literally everything in the world which is known in the state of California to cause cancer). We don’t need cushioned guard rails on literally everything.

When was the last time you actually read a product manual? Many of them actually are full of warnings about how things fail. I have no idea about Bose headphones, I definitely threw away everything but the headphones immediately.

No we should not ban everything that doesn’t have a zero percent fault rate. This weird angry response is a symptom of this sheltered fear which comes from not understanding that the world isn’t ever going to be perfect. You make really bad decisions when you’re in denial about the impossibility of safety perfection.
I think therefore I am. And so the world outside can't be confirmed, only your own existence? I get it. But what if the more objective party, society, a collective of subjectives, disagrees with you and your existence? It doesn't matter what you think, you will not think or be if they deem your "truth" an untruth or a threat. I think it's at least for this reason that the ego should be somewhat tamed and not undermine the objective or else the subjective becomes more endangered.
It’s certainly not worth underestimating that many developers stagnate and don’t even try to keep up to date. I joined a C++ shop that was claiming to do modern C++ and one dev in particular took both an age to write anything and did it in a way that ignored anything from C++11
I'm starting to believe this white guilt syndrome is a modern day version of the old American puritanism, or some other weird mutation of an idea of sin that somehow found its way into 21st century liberal consciousness.

And e.g. cancel culture is the new age version of Salem witch hunts, it comes from the same kind of self-righteous psyche, and is always about the collective vs. individual
> It is likely that quite a few people would lie if they knew they were going to be observed/studied or reported on.

Even assuming your premise is true (it's not), you think the solution to not have people lie is....to lie to them?
My friend, you just described a form of depression.
Not inferring anything from an online comment, but you may want to tackle the issue from a different perspective.
All the best. If you’re fine and happy, I’m sorry for my comment.
Alkalines don't spontaneously combust but they do spontaneously leak caustic chemicals.
The "compliance" is quite simple. Don't do this thing. Don't collect personal information without permission. Very, very simple.

If you do collect personal data,
with permission, it's only slightly more complicated. Let the individuals control their data, including deletion. Don't do anything with it without permission. Again, not hard to understand.

The "morass" is for people who are gonna try anyway. "Well, what about if we bury the permission under exhausting legalese?" No, that's unlawful. "What if we collect it but obfuscate it?" Not without permission. Etc.

So, "compliance morass" is not an argument. It's an extremely simple law.
Does that mean all Android users must now install the app to prevent getting Airtagged? That seems ridiculous and calling this a false claim is questionable ar best.
I don't think the big picture on lithium ion battery fire risk is well understood yet.

I posted another comment about this recently.

It appears that NYC is having about 1 e-bike fire per year, per 100K persons.
(see below)

It also appears the NYC is having about the same rate of e-bike fire injuries:
About 1 injury per 100K persons, per year.

I actually bought a nice e-bike and returned it, cause I didn't want to lose sleep over the possibility of an e-bike fire. The estimated probability is very low, granted.

References:
https://www.consumerreports.org/electric-bikes/how-to-preven...
"E-bike ownership has skyrocketed in New York since the pandemic began, and with it, e-bike fires, according to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). There have been 75 e-bike fires so far this year, which is on pace to double last year’s total, officials said. The fires have caused 72 injuries and three deaths."
How is Nancy Pelosi still in office if the city is so progressive? I was part of the Shahid Bhuttar campaign and was very disappointed that they chose to re-elect Pelosi after all the messes of the Trump years. I think the city is really controlled by the rich neoliberals and progressives are nothing but lip service. There is no other reason they would keep such a garbage candidate around.
I know HF is generated when primary lithium cells burn, here's someone who got HF poisoning that way: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/flashlight-explosi...

On the other hand, it doesn't seem that the amount from rechargeable lion is anywhere near as much, or we'd be hearing a lot more about everyone who got lung damage from all the "stupid things people do with lithium batteries" videos on YouTube...
> than it should be

This may be pedantic on my part, but I don't like this framing. It has the implication that our models dictate what happens in the universe and not the other way around. The universe is expanding faster than our models predict or there's something up with our observations or both. Maybe this is what people have in mind, but I think it's a subtle communication difference and can miscommunicate that science is truth, whereas science is the collection and evolution of models and observations describing the reality we experience.
Is there a guide to set this up? Thanks in advance
Very relatable list.

Kindle also really ignited my love for reading again this year.
I think it tricks my brain a bit into thinking “oh, it’s an electronic device anyway” :D
Another thing that helped, was a bit of a challenge with my partner, reading books in bed together, and having reading dates, when we would just snug on the sofa reading each other their own book.
Please don't lie and try to gaslight.

Current SF DA is an ultra progressive that doesn't want to jail criminals, and thinks stealing is redistribution.
Also, the proposition 47 passed in CA that makes stealing a midemenor, . Both very 'progressive' ticket items. Also, police got less funding as well.

How are they working out for SF?

How are the open drug markets working for SF? Currently there are 570 people dying over overdose, every year. More than twice than covid, which we all admitted it was a national emergency.

Time to admit, 'progressive' policies are failures. They are just a left wing form of anarchy, and normal folks are getting fed up with them.
>It would be good to see an autopsy,

You do realize that there was a quite real chance of someone seeing the OP's autopsy here?

>That sort of paranoia doesn't help

I guess you don't.

I find it fascinating that we get people saying "both of these in this thread:

* The inherent explosive and deadly danger of lithium is well known, the OP should have expected it, and should not complain

* The danger of lithium batteries is overblown, the OP shouldn't complain

It's quite a mindfuck to argue with both simultaneously.
I always prefix such comments with "nit" so the owner of the PR knows I'm not saying they should/must make this change to get a +1 from me but that I think it should be considered.

That said we already use auto linters and formatters.

I am more mindful of my code review comments now that I'm more senior. When it's easy for people to take my words as gospel I much prefer to foster an environment where that isn't the case.
Issue it a speeding citation, hope it learns from its mistake.

This is probably just youthful exuberance. If it's still at it after another 13 billion years, take away its license.
That makes the assumption that tests reflective of preparation are an objective criteria of academic performance. I would argue that such tests are only reflective of preparation.
You apparently use the word trial differently than it is used in pharma.

Pfizer had one large trial that involved many sites. Three of those sites run by Ventavia had problems. That's why the headline says “in trial”. But even if you didn't know that it is explained in BMJ article
“... Ventavia had enrolled more than 1000 participants at three sites. The full trial (registered under NCT04368728) enrolled around 44 000 participants across 153 sites that included numerous commercial companies and academic centres.”
Skimmed the article so may have missed the point, but what is the end game here? Are we to only hire 50% attractive people and 50% ugly people? (Or whatever percentages represent the general population).

Have we reached peak "woke"?
Well, you'd have to see it before you judge. It's super simple, like 5 or 10 lines total. Handles 1000x+ the traffic it sees. In any case concurrency is nothing to be afraid of. Do they not teach dining philosophers any more?

My point is that postgres is a swiss army knife and you and anyone else would be remiss to not fully understand what it is capable of and what you can do with it. Entire classes of software baggage can be eliminated for "most" use cases. One could even argue that reaching for all these extra fancy specialized tools is a premature optimization. Plus, who could possibly argue against having fewer moving parts?
Make every system as complex as you can with tech you are not really familiar with is a good plan for your small team? Under a 100 people, your company does not have 100 devops etc to make sure all these 'best of breed' tools actually managed properly in production. If a service on top of postgres dies, I will find out why very quickly; on Kafka, even though I have used it a bunch of times, I usually have no clue; just restart and pray. Why would I force myself to use another tool when postgres actually works well enough? Resume driven?

Sometimes I agree with best tool for the job; if the constraints make something a very clear winner; if the difference is marginal for the particular case at hand, I pick what I/we know (I would actually argue that IS the best tool for the job; but in absolute 'what could happen in the future' terms it probably is not).
I strongly suspect there are diminishing returns. You get the biggest benefit from knowing the material from school. After that, familiarity with the test (practice tests every weekend for a few months) will help the most (and tutoring is no substitute for actually practice the test). After that, yes, tutoring will help some, but again, diminishing returns.
Not pedantry. This is a common failing in cosmology.
> 16 years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) took the stage and delivered one of the most impressive code demos the world has ever seen.

16 years later there's no tech stack that can replicate this demo (except Elixir LiveView [1]). And yet we're told tech has progressed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI
My experience in companies using FOSS licensed code is a bit dated, but back then their opinion was more close to "we can do as we want with their code, those are just a bunch of hippies".
I'm sure things have changed in almost two decades, but the sooner TikTok gets a letter from a law firm, the better.
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Around few percents, yes, and already oxidised.
But what would you expect support to do? When you call a random callcenter agent the best they’re going to be able to do is comp you a new set of headphones.
> As Chevron’s vendetta continued, international outrage grew. Just before sentencing, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued an opinion in Donziger’s favor, ruling that his two years of house arrest was illegal under international law and that he had been denied the right to a fair trial. A panel of five prominent jurists called that confinement “arbitrary” and said that both judges, Kaplan and Preska, had shown “a staggering lack of objectivity and impartiality.” In court, Preska briefly acknowledged the UN findings only to dismiss them.

> [...]

> Only a corporation like Chevron worth billions could have financed such a prosecution. The oil giant paid for a disgraced former judge named Alberto Guerra and his family to move to the United States. Chevron’s lawyers rehearsed Guerra’s testimony with him 53 times before he went on the witness stand, where Guerra claimed that Donziger and an Ecuadorian lawyer had offered him a $500,000 bribe and that the pair had ghostwritten the final judgment against Chevron. Donziger and his defense team estimate that Chevron has spent $2 billion on legal fees and other costs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/steven-donzige...

> In 2014, U.S federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron "was the product of fraud." Guerra—who received cash and benefits from Chevron totaling $2 million, according to Donziger—later admitted he lied about the bribery, but the case continued.

https://nacla.org/news/2021/08/25/ecuador-chevron-donziger

The expert testimony that Donziger supposedly ghostwrote wasn't considered in the Ecuadorian ruling anyway, and the judge he supposedly bribed wasn't even on the case when Donziger supposedly bribed him

I don't think it makes sense to look at Chevron's accusations and say 'ah, yes, both sides', or to look at the extreme strangeness of this whole process in American courts and then take at face value the judgments of courts of countries aligned with the US (especially other countries in the Americas) and/or US energy interests.

The US got a whole lot of countries to line up behind totally baseless accusations of electoral fraud in Bolivia in 2019, too.
No, there is no fire retardant in the thermoplastic. He is not paranoic, he is just explaining the fact.
Princess Diamond ship, way back in early 2020, had similar pattern of some people in same cabin with infected person not getting sick themselves.
I purchased Bose QC-35 II as well. I don't have chemical burns, but after a while of wearing my ears become really sensitive. I feel strange pain while wearing them. This applies only when the noise cancelation is ON. When it is off the pain immediately disappears. My explanation is that these phones actually generate inverse signal to the noise, but due to various factors such as delay, the cancellation is not perfect and what I am actually getting into the ear is the residual high frequency noise, which may in fact be quite dangerous. Anybody else experienced this? There might be some study about it ...
What other thing in the headphones could possibly cause such a fire and burns? Whether or not the battery started it or something else did, it is clearly the battery that provided the serious problem, so if it's there, the danger is there.
This sounds awesome. For anyone with relevant expertise in the field: How significant is this? It seems pretty significant but we often hear about some amazing results from mice studies that turn out to not work in the real world.
Souk Market Crash
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