skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original title: 'New measuring method reveals there may be more plastic on than in your salad' (less readable, may look like an omission by mistake ("more plastic on what, than in the salad?)")

> It's now possible to measure how many plastic particles there are in our food. [Researchers] now label[led] the plastic particles with ... Europium, [which] doesn't occur in organisms naturally, so every europium particle you measure represents an ingested plastic particle. ... In both lettuce [«a real water guzzler»] and wheat, the concentration of plastic remained ten times lower than in soil, and the particles remained mainly attached to the roots

The article also note a special legal status that polymers seem to have, and academical advocation for a consistent regulation across all particles of concern.

Original research article: More information: Yongming Luo et al, Quantitative tracing of uptake and transport of submicrometre plastics in crop plants using lanthanide chelates as a dual-functional tracer, Nature Nanotechnology (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-01063-3
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell singer dead at 74
How do they bring into this narrative various drug-using super-functional people like Steve Jobs?
Maybe use a Chromebook first to understand how it is different from a typical Linux desktop?
That’s a good question. I have always liked pulpo, but when I learned about what an incredible species octopuses are, I swore to never even consider eating it again.
It’s a bit hypocritical to not feel the same about every animal, but then I’m as irrational as all humans
Intel to spend $20B on new fab in Ohio
Until this boneheaded mistake is fixed, we have ExplorerPatcher: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
> I want a simple life where I program and run programs...

I feel like this is an oversimplification.

The company I work for has tens of thousands of concurrent users, plus dozens (hundreds?) of business partners all of whom are integrating with our platform.

We are not serving static HTML pages like StackOverflow, we have dynamic content and our customers want up-to-date analytics.

So.. how am I supposed to "program and run programs" in this environment?

You act like we invent complexity for no reason, but we are dealing with scale and "I want a simple life where I program and run programs" is like saying: "I want an easier job." Cool. They are out there. They probably don't pay as well.

Meanwhile I'm going to try and fix the mess someone made 8 years ago in the monolith so the business paying my bills can keep making money. it ain't pretty, but its a living.
The French proverb says: "A rolling stone gathers no moss"

If you have a family with kids, check also the arguments of Dan Luu for the same topic.
"Big companies vs startups"
https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
True. But the reason W11 UI is a horrible mess is not precisely to make the experience better for people with low res laptops.
That was a character he played in Fight Club. His given name was Michael Lee Aday.
"Natural" in an ambiguous that is impossible to define properly, yet it casts some morality on behaviour.

Anyway, the need for intoxicating itself seems to arise in more animals that have high developed cognitive abilities, Dolphins get high on passing around poisonous fishes, monkeys rub centipedes over their body and there are many more examples.

Mushrooms, smoking, fermented fruits and grains have been part of human lives for hundreds of thousands of years.

It seems that animals with high cognitive abilities feel the need to turn it off at times.
Amazon Alexa down: the smart assistant is struggling to find its voice
This is a movie reference, Meat Loaf played Bob Paulson in Fight Club.
The employee cares, but most employers do not. That's why changing jobs every couple years gets people 20% pay increases these days but they're lucky to get an inflationary raise at their yearly review.
I disagree, I think we see a lot of condemnation for having had a treatment or not. On the contrary, we should bring privacy back and make health a private issue completely.

I also worked on medical devices and respective
medical advisory boards. Getting people to share their data is just a question away. If you fail at that, I doubt any further inquiry would net any benefit.
There was a lengthy HN thread discussing the question (software-based thermal protection):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596248 ("Let's talk about safety of Pinephone (xnux.eu)") (2020)
Apple, and a number of other players, have long had the ability to craft a favourable narrative in most people's minds.

Heck even supposedly technically minded people will say things like "Apple invented the mouse" or they had "the first mp3 player" or "the first smartphone".

There's a circus about them that permits them to stomp out history before their first performance and mark it as irrelevant.

Musk is also a master of this craft. Founder of Tesla? You'd be surprised. Founder of PayPal? Go look that up.

These people could have been excellent actors if their businesses had failed
I don’t believe it will convince those that don’t want to be convinced. But I want to be convinced, and I want transparency in the science that my taxes are funding and in the enlightened society in which I wish to live.

Transparency in science should include publishing raw data, as apart from re-creating the statistics in the report there is no other way the trial is repeatable.
I think a lot of the high functioning people who use THC could probably be even better without it. But what THC does is quiet a negative inner voice that prevents them from focusing and/or causes them to procrastinate. So the overall effect seems positive in the short term.

The issue is that THC does have long term effects. Most of which can be countered by being above average prior to use. Even if it zaps a few IQ points, being productive is better than being even smarter but paralyzed by anxiety. But the positive effects only last as long as the euphoria.

Some people encounter worse anxiety in the long term. A drug doesn’t solve the problem, just alters brain chemistry. Often the problem is external, rarely completely internal. If the initial source of anxiety is external, THC is a poor long term solution.

THC also does mess with reward mechanisms. Why feel good for being productive if you can just feel good by getting high? Without external motivators it’s easy to lose your internal drive when happiness is just a puff away.

It can also hurt emotional control, which is more subtle that other issues. That inner voice that causes anxiety is similar to the one that says slow down and be a nice person. By shutting one off, you also shut off the other. The same inhibition commonly associated with creativity is also associated with being a dick. THC seems to be associated with love, but this is largely a fantasy. Euphoria is not love by default.

I think the story about the productive stoner is over inflated. It’s a lot of work to truly solve the issues that THC can address. So if you are already high functioning, it’s easy to use a drug than address them instead. The issue is that THC will erode you over time, and may exacerbate the same issues that THC is supposed to address. Moderation is well and good, but the people using daily are self medicating, not using it recreationally. It takes a lot of control to not let THC take over your life when used regularly. And if you have that level of control initially, couldn’t you exercise it to live an equally fulfilled life in abstinence?

It’s difficult to even be recreational now that everything is so high potency. It’s like every drink being high ABV, and it’s an arm race to make it higher. Edibles are about the only way to ensure a low dose. As someone who prefers to smoke I find it next to impossible to match an inebriation level similar to a light beer, unless it’s literally a single puff. A second can send you over the edge.
It doesn't work when you started your argument by finger pointing.
For the longest time I would fight with Windows to get a plain black task bar and active window title bar. And I mean #000000 as in fully black with white text. In Windows 7 you could kind of trick it into doing it with registry alone but after that I always had to do uxtheme.dll hacks to get it to work. Then one day I just stopped and started using Linux on my desktop and MacOS on my laptop. Whatever game MS thinks it's playing ... they are losing market share now in both business and education. All they really have left is DRM heavy gaming.
A couple of days ago I run into one of those windows in Task Scheduler. I had to type a long string of program arguments into a right aligned narrow text field (plenty of space at the left of it) inside a window that I could not resize to make that text input wider.

Luckily that was a VM in my Linux box (the luck is that I use Linux, not Windows.) The Linux equivalent would be either cron or systemd, which are configured with text files that I can type full screen if I care. Microsoft made a ton of work building those graphical UIs and in some case the result is worse than not doing it and using text files. Note that GUIs are not magical. To do what I was up to I still had to look for documentation and eventually had to type some XML in a text area. That is to start a task after another one completed.
The worst thing about the new taskbar is that it can not be dragged to the sides to be vertical. On the typical wide sreens we have today (does anyone rember those 4:3 monitors?) it makes a lot of sense to use the height for other things than the taskbar.

But there are some more things missing, like the ability to open the task manager from the taskbar.
Rich is the shit. Go show https://github.com/willmcgugan some love.
Right, so under your approach they need to add a dot, every single time. This wastes a byte during the handshake, in order to transport the dot which you've decided must be there. Whereas the approach they actually shipped does not waste that byte.

If it makes you more comfortable pretend it's an amazing "compression scheme" where they omit that extra byte with a dot in it to save space.

See also IEEE 754 floating point where that first 1 in your binary floating point number is omitted entirely because it's implied and so writing it into the 32-bit value anyway would waste an entire order of magnitude.
Lucky you! It takes much longer for me!

But it is improving. In December, it took minutes. Since last update it takes seconds. ;-)

I just e-mail the notes to Evernote. That's what I do now.
Arch user right?
> Unlike the US, the Swiss have universal healthcare, free education and a banking secrecy law.

The Swiss model of mandatory private insurance was used as the basis for RomneyCare and then ObamaCare. However, the Swiss model disallows group plans so everyone is on an equal footing, something the USA didn’t dare to do leading to continued healthcare inequality.

As an American who had lived in Lausanne for 2 years, I would not call CH a mini-US, that seems wrong.
> Our backend is 100% lambdas and it's significantly cheaper than running our services on eks.

Could you elaborate? We've got both, but we're not seeing a lot of differential in price.

It could simply be we don't have enough traffic that would drive this correctly.
How a shovelphone is better? The author mentions 5 days is great battery life. My old dumbphone with halfdead battery has 5 days life, and it's short, used to be 15 days or so.
iphone 12 mini also has many apps that still do not work correctly, or show proper resolution and thus apps are unusable.

plus using it to type and such is really a big annoyance. the keyboard is smashed in the lower 20% of the screen.
I used https://www.twine.net/ quite few times when needing some assets for my app. There’s a lot of talented people on there.
First: I agree with you, but it's a general human failing to fall in love with our own solutions or just ones that we vibe with. I think the critiques are always more generalisable than the solutions.

That being said, I think it's idle speculation, because it depends on how well you explain the state of the world, how open the human you are grabbing would be etc. It also depends how paranoid you are about communities being stuck to a single point of failure (most BFDL really aren't, in that there is a lot of dependence on the "underlings" that is made explicit in the structure of things, but the brand and spirit of the community might depend on them being around as a Schelling point) and other factors.

I also think it is very worthwhile to think about decentralising the BFDL model if you make it work by self selection, I mainly study the mechanisms of well working anarchist groups and most that I see are as heavy on Praxis (actually improving material conditions) as on theory and ideology. I'd recommend trying to look up organisations like this (in Germany, the FAU is an example for an anarchist Union that has risen to the challenge of organising gig workers and are very interesting to read about)
A flight hour at $100 means probably an expected $5,000 or more to get the license. Then add to that a $150,000 plane, which, even if you timeshare it with five others, bring the total up to $35,000. Add fuel, palm grease, plane maintenance and I wouldn't be surprised if you were approaching at minimum $50,000 which is much money.

Then consider you can't work at the same time. Even if you get good sponsorship, it's likely to cost someone with a UL license a few more thousand in lost income.

It's a lot of money.

This is different from genetics in that genetics is something we are stuck with as biological humans. Wealth differences is entirely a human-constructed social order.
2. This reminds me, while we're documenting ms bugs: does anyone else's Word get insanely slow once there are around 40 equations in a doc? Like taking over a minute to copy from an equation?
Personally I dislike – even resent – having to own a device I don't like, that I don't control (not without extensive hackery, which I don't have the interest or time for), and where I have to create accounts and accept various EULAs I don't like to use basic functionality.

Of course, you can go the Replicant/PostmarketOS/etc. or Purism/PinePhone or whatnot route, but then you're missing out on so many things and/or have to spend so much time on things (not worth it for me) that you might as well not get a smartphone. A smartphone is greatly reduces in value if your banking app and $popular_messenger_app doesn't work. And besides, it only solves part of the problem: I still have a device too large to comfortably use, in spite of being quite tall with big hands.
I actually wrote a blog post about this divide of how some people really prefer to work in the office, whereas for others it's a non starter, at least after the pandemic showed to us that remote work is very feasible in this industry "Remote working and the elephant in the room": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/remote-working-and-the-elep...

In the long term, i only see this divide growing, cultures forming around each of the approaches based on what works for different types of individuals. Who knows what that will look like in a few years.
No, they're being punished for evading duty with a loophole, aware that it's a loophole.
Yeah, but by being on a ward you’re inherently suffering from selection bias - you’re only seeing the people who have a problem of one variety of another. From what I understand cannabis is fairly effective at triggering latent psychosis, rather than being the causative agent itself.

I smoke weed like others smoke cigarettes, and while I may find it trickier to do QM in my head while I’m high, and often lose my train, I still can. Some tasks, like coding, become easier - I gain a myopic focus, as it closes out past and future and makes me present.

On the other hand, I’ll also sign off client phone calls with “love you!” and will screw up trivial tasks like pouring a cup of coffee.
Ancient Greek observations of nature have a spotty record of accuracy, as far as I know.
I still remember my HP Ipaq 514. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I've found that everyone who loves living in New York is either rich or thinks that no other city has [list of things every big city has], and admitting that quality of life there is low becomes this enormous pride issue.
FM Radio ;).
Isn't this just supporting scams? I mean we just covered this the other day. NFTs are all scam purchases.
What do you miss about RethinkDB?
There's an article similar to this but about Sound.... I wonder if I'll ever find it again.
Yeah, no tomato for most of mine. Though fresh sliced tomatoes are a common topping.

They honey pizza reminds me of a pizza I got from a vending machine in France a couple years back, I think honey and chevre. There was this vending machine outside a pizza joint that would cook a whole pizza for you in about 5 minutes, presumably from cold preprepared pizzas.
I don't think a gold standard is a viable pyramid scheme for a multiplanetary species. There's too much of it in space. You need something that is rare even after traveling for hundreds of years. A lot of wars were simply fought over resources. It's even better if your society uses the resource as money. The only thing I can imagine is using habitable planets as currency, this would require your galactic empire to have a dozen planets though because a single planet does not make a currency and the debt trap of borrowing 1 planet at 3% interest would fall apart because colonizing the next planet may take too long to pay off the interest. I.e. you need some planets to lose before you take that loan.

Edit: Great filter hypothesis to explain Fermis paradox. The pyramid scheme needed to enslave the galaxy is also powerful enough to destroy a planet before it develops space faring technology.
Thanks! I did a further search and found these:

- KaiAuth https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/ft0jjn/kaiauth_simpl...

- GAuth by gbrad (https://kaptein.me/blog/porting-converting-web-apps-website-...)

- https://github.com/fwenzel/firekey

For some reason, when the KaiAuth developer tried to submit it into the KaiOS app store, KaiOStech rejected it because it doesn't "match the use case for majority of our users".
Doesn't that refer to the country or the people rather than the language? Perhaps I should have been clearer in my comment;

In my experience almost no one in the Basque Country refers to the Basque language as 'Basque', it is generally referred to as Euskara, even by non-native speakers.
crypto is no stranger to shitcoins and to true ponzis, the illegal kind. Unfortunately, shitcoins and ponzis require hype to survive and will generate voluminous amounts of it. This generates a selection effect where most crypto hype will be of the unsavory kind.

This can give the impression that all of crypto is a scam, that impression is wildly incorrect. I believe this is the trap that lern_to_spel and many others on HN are falling prey to.
DevSecOps Library
I have loved Vista. The difference with all the people that hated it is that I waited about 1.5 years after release before installing it. It ran flawlessly on my PC and to this day I have no bad word to say about it.

I'm pretty sure Windows 11 will be mostly OK next year. What's the rush? It's not like Windows 10 is broken.

If it wasn't for telemetry I'd still be on Windows now.
You could still control the audience of your ads by choosing where to publish them. What should be illegal is to target individuals by using their browsing data.
I honestly don't get how this is even a problem. My best friend is a UX/UI designer who works on Mac but the guy also games and used to do crypto mining back in 2013 so he is very familiar with Windows as well. Why is Microsoft having problems finding designers that use and know both?
A New Way to look at Networking (2006)
I think if Spain had taken a more Swiss approach towards federalization and language, it would be a much stronger nation. A lot of regional tension is a result of the central government blocking or overriding local decisions and political parties using non-Castillian identity as a scapegoat.
With an IQ of 163 I certainly welcome the cognitive impairment. I can't code while high, which is a blessing because I hate coding and have burned out on programming several times. Playing video games poses a greater challenge when I can't reason logically, which of course makes playing much more fun! Cannabis makes me feel 20 years younger in the mind, but 20 years older in the body. Being high is like both a return to childhood and an early retirement at the same time.

Haven't decided how much I wanna smoke though, because I do have projects I'd like to work on, and progress is slow stoned. On the other hand, I have a philosophy of 'slow is good'; A deep-seated belief that there's no such thing as "wasting time". Advancing at one's own pace may be a fundamental strategy in creative pursuits. I'm an artist though, don't know if this would fly developing business software.
I think NFTs are incredibly stupid and all of the expensive ones are wash-trading scams.

That said, an NFT is not different from a trading card. It's just digital. If Twitter can fund itself without abusive Skinner Box algorithms and/or surveillance marketing, I'm fine with them doing it using NFTs.
Does anyone know if they have any plans to make an EU isolated fly.io ran by an European company?
My understanding is that bullfighting is still quite profitable.
It also states that every spaniard has the right to a proper house, and yet here we are...
> Quite frankly relying on consul scares the shit out of me. There are so few guarantees and so many pitfalls and traps that I don’t sleep well. At this point I consider it a mortal risk.

Consul (and Vault) for sure a complex softwares that 99% of the time "just work", but when they fail they can fail big time, I concur. But calling it a mortal risk seems a bit far fetched in my opinion.
How does train tickets work? I’m in europe, and havn’t really looked into it… do you “share” the tickets to the wallet app? You have a “train” app on your watch? Just show a qr code in an email? Been wanting to set this up for a while…
Amazingly, "The Thick of It" is filmed only 20 years later, but feels like many generations apart.
I didn't see anything in your links that addressed second-hand smoke specifically? I think there's a broad consensus that a) tobacco is a significant cause of premature death b) low outdoor air quality (e.g. high PM25) is a significant cause of premature death. But given that tobacco smoke does not show up in your link's list of major contributors to low outdoor air quality, that does not add up to a statement that second-hand smoke is significantly dangerous.
I'd add "don't screw with the inputs"

I hate it when an app assumes I'm an idiot producing typos half the time, and fighting the autocorrect then wastes more time than it could ever save. Just implement undo and leave me alone.
Sideloading has nothing to do with security. Apple can just use Gatekeeper for iOS like they do for the Mac.

They want the control over distribution via AppStore
A simple answer might be that octopuses get stressed when there are to many other octopuses around which limits resources. Some octopuses eating their own tentacles and dying might give them an evolutionary advantage.
like having a door where the door handle changes position throughout the day. sounds fun.

if they would just pin it dead center and keep it there it would be the easiest spot to reach, especially on big screens, but it would also mean you could organise apps on either side. maybe more permanent apps on the left and less used and then newly opened on the right.

i kind of wish pinned tabs in browers would pin to the middle as well for the same reasons. easy to reach but also would let you organise stuff better. stuff you need to do or read later on the left and ephemeral stuff on the right.