skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that most European regulators err on the side of caution with respect to banning chemicals. It's more of a "you have to prove this is safe" mentality, rather than "you have to prove this is dangerous" in terms of the scientific uncertainty. They're all looking at the same global set of available research data it seems:

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/banned-europe...

> "This principle, in the words of the European Commission, “aims at ensuring a higher level of environmental protection through preventative” decision-making. In other words, it says that when there is substantial, credible evidence of danger to human or environmental health, protective action should be taken despite continuing scientific uncertainty. In contrast, the U.S. federal government’s approach to chemicals management sets a very high bar for the proof of harm that must be demonstrated before regulatory action is taken."
Where are at least ACL and green header filtering?! This is 2022. If this is not supported at the entry point the product should be sent back to design.
Didn't, but went multi-cloud for performance reasons (we have to be close to the people we're talking to). The most annoying part was the network topology. Used DirectConnect with a provider so that x-cloud latency was as low as it could be. Overall, not too upset. Used terraform to configure things across clouds. Without that, would be too hard to keep track of everything.
I thought “peak brain ability” was mid to late 20s; is it earlier? Although I suppose a lot of the greatest breakthroughs in physics were done by people in their early twenties.

I’m also 31 and haven’t yet noticed a change in my ability to learn new things quickly (for some reason abstract topics like category theory seem easier to understand now than in my mid-twenties). But I know a decline is coming, and I’m really dreading that.

I will say there are a lot of confounding factors in life that cause changes that I think many people misattribute to age. As a personal example, getting married, having a kid, and taking a job at a large tech company have eaten away most of my time for creative thinking. I used to tinker away at various projects for hours on end. And while I get tired more easily now, I actually chalk this up more so to being sedentary during the pandemic than age related factors. The best marathoners in the world tend to be in their late 20s or early 30s, so I don’t think my potential to pull all-nighters has changed as much as my current physical shape.

> less driven generally

This is one thing that hasn’t changed for me. Everyone says when you get married and have kids your motivation to pursue far-out ideas drops drastically, but I haven’t noticed this at all. If anything, I find that I’m more driven now because I feel like I’m running out of time to accomplish (or at least attempt to accomplish) the main things I want to do in life. Yes, it’s a bit more of a challenge to find time, but looking back I can see where I wasted massive chunks of time in my 20s, so it’s nothing that better time management and prioritization can’t fix.
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Manjaro.

But yeah, Windows is designed like the author said for people that use word and outlook and excel. So if you don't need much but the usual buttons to click it just works.

But it's so limited. It's designed to just work for the broadest user set, and over the iterations has been honed for that user set, if you're a power user of a machine it's too limiting. Linux is freeing, but that usually means a little rocky start and some setup. Once that's done though, you've got it made. You won't be clicking through a bunch of dialogs and GUI stuff, unless you really want to.

"Linux isn't ready for prime time" isn't exactly right, it's not for prime time. Like all free software, it is for people who can get utility out of it, no more, no less.
The comment you're referring to blamed "capital flight from Asia" and "local or foreign millionaires". How did you get to "literally blaming Asians"? That's a pretty big jump there bud.

Also, capital from China must be at least an order greater than capital from all of Middle East combined. Not defending their decision not to do anything when your Arabs and Iranians were buying up real estate, just that it was a drop in the bucket and pretty easy to ignore. Chinese capital, on the other hand, is becoming cumbersome for quite a few countries now
I don't think these drive up prices higher.

LISA specifically mentions that it has to be your first house anywhere in the world, so it is targeted at home ownership. People speculating shouldn't be able to take advantage of this.

Though LISA is pretty much useless in London. Good luck finding even a good 1 BHK under 450k inside Zone 4
Maybe in feeling but certainly not literally. A 32 year old working in a field is going to know far more than their 15 year old counterpart. Of course you may be getting into the "I know that I know nothing" regime. While your 15 year old self subjectively thought they knew everything.
I’m glad it does not apply to foreign workers or PRs because I’ve met awesome people over my academic career that I 100% want to be my neighbours and fellow Canadians.

Unfortunately none of them are loaded enough to buy a place, so…
I didn't read it that way, but simply, that as a buyer in a popular city, it's frustrating to have to compete literally with the entire world. Criticizing a problem that has existed in the past doesn't make the criticism any less legit. In saying that the commenter should "blame themselves", as well as the other examples you provided, it sounds like you support their position that foreign real estate investment should be restricted. Selfishness isn't always bigotry.
You seem to have entirely skipped over the second paragraph of what I said.
You’re literally risking her life on those things, to save some money ?
Easy. Buildings have problems. It's in your interest to have some clueless salesman talk to buyers and represent whatever they represent than to do it yourself.
Yes, I and my father would 'fall' in the category of rich bored people (or being more precise, well-off STEM grads). It's risky, but it was beautiful. Unfortunately, at the time I took the classes I was also writing my thesis which meant sleeping very little (4 hours a day at best), and on top of my college studies I had to commute to the aerodrome 1 hour just to get there in the morning. I was so tired that I'd fall asleep at noon on the ride home. Then one day I crashed the plane on a fence after landing, it was a runway excursion due to my low reflexes and lack of sleep. The plane sustained minor damage and I got out unharmed, insurance covered most of the bill (a couple thousand) and I decided that I would get back to aviation after finishing my academic duties in a different setting, likely as an engineer/numerical analyst. I'm looking into buying smaller aircraft, likely an ultralight plane or a STOL [0]. I just like aviation too much, but I'm not willing to have another brush with death.

In the meantime, two of my acquaintances died instantly after crashing on the slope of a volcano.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOL
We went in for the first time in over 2 years, out of 500 desks about 10-20 desks were occupied, at the end of the day the management sent a email changing onsite policy from 2 days/week to 2 days/month. GG.
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When the going gets tough the ruling party just scapegoats a minority group who they perceive to be socioeconomically advantaged. ex) Jews in Europe
Right? The problem is articles could potentially have early media content, specifically a fat youtube iframe, in the case of the DIY 3d scanner article.

I'm glad for this feedback, though. I'll play around with slightly dropping image quality (currently it's JPEG output at quality = 100), and lazy-loading.
"But a new study says that even if they don't contain BPA, most plastic products release estrogenic chemicals. Most plastic products, from sippy cups to food wraps, can release chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives." [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics...
And my usual thought is to bring bag full of ibuprofen and peddle that as a pricy hangover cure for the nobility. Truth be told, I doubt I would get anyone to even try my pills.
Oh yeah U am not advocating invasion of Russia, the logistics and moral situation will totally flip.
Apple defies Russian government, restores opposition voting app
I believe that the whole idea of launching in EU is to get out from under state censorship and ensure safety of staff.
I didn't realize these articles were already available for me. You're right then that this doesn't exactly add value to an ACM membership. But maybe this is to make room to expand the ACM Digital Library in other ways.
How would this be any different to what we have now (a property tax)?
Only a fraction of COVID-19 deaths involved cytokine storms.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262438
> Downloading and executing an MSI does not seem to be a meaningfully different operation than writing the apt-get command

If nothing else, unlike downloading and executing a MSI, apt will download the package, verify its checksum, and verify the signature of the package itself.
No, they're kinda screwed right now.

Google used to hire A+ players -- the cream of the cream of the crop. The workforce at early Google was spectacular. Everyone wanted to work there -- tenured faculty were leaving their jobs.

Right now, Google hires good people, but the very best people I know all work elsewhere (and many are former Googlers).

Nonsense like this won't discourage B or C players, who fight tooth-and-nail to get there, but it does discourage the people were Google is fighting for individuals with other employers.

I haven't heard any elite university faculty leave for Google in close to a decade, for example. It used to be common. Google would poach from Stanford and MIT.

I've seen companies go this way, and this kind of slide only tends to accelerate. Folks like Sebastian Thrun bring in the cream of Stanford, and the cream of Stanford brings in everyone else. Once you lose those top two tiers....
> They already taxed and stopped foreign buyers but the home prices in Vancouver keep going up as sales amongst local Canadians make up most of the volume.

These were always easy to work around: how many Chinese students come to Canada to study and just happen to have a few million dollars to spend on a house? The new proposal is also easy to work around, the Canadian government isn't serious about solving the speculation problem.

> In fact, without outside capital constantly coming in, the Vancouver real estate market is not sustainable. It literally is just another game of musical chairs, it is the news of some Chinese communist elite member buying a mansion in West Vancouver that gets local Canadians eager to own properties.

Perhaps. We already went through this in the 80s with the Japanese, and after the Japanese real estate bubble burst, Vancouver real estate was depressed for almost a decade (I remember the signs for condos starting at $100k in 1997! And no one was blaming the Hong Kongese for that at the time). China is just Japan 2.0 in this regard: after the Chinese property bubble bursts, Vancouver real estate will be heavily effected.
You'd want to flag whether and how you captured them.

If you have offline channels directing you to a website as well, like television or print, it can get messy unless architected properly.
Given we might not have data from the past about the prevalence of ADHD, is it safe to assume we'll never know if mircoparticles and other things we introduce into the environment are the cause of these issues?
At this point it seems largely to be a performative gesture so that the Feds can say they're doing something.

The two biggest jurisdictions where there has been evidence of notable foreign investment in housing has been Vancouver and Toronto, and foreign buyer taxes were already introduced in those places years and years ago.

Prices certainly haven't gone down, but these taxes have had substantial impact in changing the sort of products that house developers are making. There's been a significant pivot by developers toward building purpose built entirely rental apartments whereas prior to the taxes developers rarely built these, instead favouring condominiums (multi-unit buildings where the apts are sold).

Seems like the government should provide some sort of evidence that foreign buying remains a problem. They haven't to date though perhaps they'll drop some numbers as part of the budget.
This is refreshing to see a left wing media writing on China. After COVID I pretty much lost trust in left wing media when it comes to China.
In case this article piques your interest to try out a modern version of IRIX:
https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/
You're comparing apples to oranges by using a different metric than the parent is using.
So folks assert.
I don't know why you are being downvoted, as I find your reasoning valid.

My SO was never keen on the idea of having children. I thought I wanted to have children 5 years ago, but it was really just a default society behavior, not something I had stopped to think.

When I had no more excuses to delay having kids (healthy, married, stable job, two real estate properties) I really gave it a thought and concluded I didn't want to. I seriously touched the topic with my SO and told her I'd understand if she would leave me, but she said she was relieved by my decision because she also didn't want to have children.

What you said was one of the reasons "in favor" of having children, because you are right, life with children gets complicated in many senses but also gets simpler at least in life purpose. You don't need to "kill" time anymore for decades. But I concluded at least for me, it was not a strong enough reason to have children.
I was thinking the other day, now I understand better how effective Goebbels could have been and how propaganda shaped European politics about 100 years ago (I was listening to whatshisface the Russian ambassador to the UN, but got the same feeling listening to Sergei Lavrov). In that sense, some exposure to this sort of things is helpful. But the tricks are very obvious once you have some training spotting them.
Is clubhouse still a thing?
My company is a not for profit research organisation. When a product manager could be considered, it's usually time to do a spinoff and to keep focusing on what's fun.
Same here, both with Firefox as well as when using wget. The downloaded data is not recognised by the file command as anything other that data.
This is basically required software for windows10 : O&O ShutUp10++
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

I will say in windows defense that the linux kernel seems to need updates almost every week requiring a reboot.
A homeowner will never have to do this. And an electrician has the ability to ensure they too don't have to ever work on live wires (despite many's insistence in doing so, something about machismo, etc.).
I like to a certain extent and admire Mathematica and Alpha (I dislike their closeness) BUT one thing I fear are "centered universities", by their own name they MUST be universal so public and open, not backed by anyone in particular. That's remain the same for anything alike.

BTW for those who read French I suggest: Libérez votre cerveau! by Idriss Aberkane on teaching and developing knowledge.
worth noting that Aus and NZ don't have blind bidding and have severe housing issues as well.
>"I've hit 30 and my life is basically over" is just BS you're telling yourself.

I wouldnt categorize my internal struggles this way. Because I have already hit this point (below) despite being in my mid 30's now.

>you realize that since you're going to die anyway, why waste the time and die bored and mediocre?

That said, the struggle I find is its all a sliding scale. That I am butting up against realistic time limits.

That pushing more here (ie: career) means i have to sacrifice something else or re-prioritize a hobby, family, etc. And I have a good equilibrium. So how do i do it while no upsetting that and maintaining the things that keep me grounded and from burning out.

Ultimately i KNOW patience and waiting for the right time is probably the right answer. But life happens, and a buddy of mine, same age and kids and all just passed, and it again will make you reconsider perspective (for me, on several different "planes".)

One thing i have realized is that many that are very successful in a traditional sense, dont always have the best equilibrium and have achieved that at a cost. And I am not sure if thats a cost im willing to risk.

I really need a damn vacation maybe.
Notable in Toronto is 3%
I’m currently in a transitory period between moving from a rental into a house. I just want the next 3 months to fly by. But I have to keep telling myself that if I don’t focus on my life in the present, then I will effectively just have lost 3 months of my life because I’ve been so focused on what’s at the end of it, and not what happens in between.
I find that having one commit per logically-grouped set of changes really helps me to focus on those changes and not get distracted. Before I got into that habit, for years I would try to cram so many features in at once, and would have a really hard time keeping track of each of their progress and what's left to be done for each, because I tried to do them simultaneously. No more.
Your argument makes no sense and its just playing into the xenophobic narrative.

There is nobody looking to buy a condo under $1MM mark competing to purchase the 8 digit figure homes in West Vancouver. The rich people selling and buying them aren't hurting at all.

Local Canadians are competing to expand their real estate portfolios and they aren't looking at homes in Langley because they sold their mansion in West Vancouver.
Yeah, lets go back to the stone age and use abacus, a well establish computing system.

PowerShell is 16 years old. Your kids should know it by this point. Mine do.

> the Windows terminal experience is terrible.

Was terrible. Bash is still terrible, even the creators do not like it, and it has nothing to do with terminal experience.
Timeouts for Regexp is quite interesting. The engineering purity in me saddens at such a thought, but indeed it seems highly practical.

The syntax feels a little rough although I have no ideas how to make it better:

Regexp.timeout = 1.0
...
/^a*b?a*$/ =~ "a" * 50000 + "x"

I think I would favor the:

long_time_re = Regexp.new("^a*b?a*$", timeout: 1.0)

version instead but I use the `=~` almost entirely, so that would still be a big style change. Probably end up setting a global timeout per app and then overriding for individual checks as needed?
I studied 3d animation in college from 2001-2004. Our lab was outfitted with tons of SGI Octane workstations. By the end, we were getting better performance out the the one lone mac there, though. Was such an awesome animation lab. I kinda miss those days.
It would be better to just reencode tracks with VBR capped to 224 or 160 max bitrate.
Hey there HN,

One day last year my son got something in the mail addressed to him. It was an ad, but it had his name on it. And we got letters every day (cough cough invoices), but this was the first one he got. He was over the moon with excitement, just because of this small thing. And then I thought to myself, "hey I can take this small thing and bring joy to other people too".

And so the Compass Letters were born (https://thecompassletters.com/) - it's a subscription service to get an actual letter, through the actual post in your actual mailbox. It's a journey, the charmed compass travels to a beautiful place on the earth and a local character writes a letter in which they describe where they live and what makes them unique. What they do, what they eat.

The letters are completely hand-drawn and the Compass speaks many languages: you can get the letter in English, German, Italian or Spanish.

There's also educational value packed in each envelope, for both young and adult readers: finding out about the geography, habits, foods of wonderful new places, language learning or navigation (with each letter, you practice finding the place on the map based on its coordinates).

Looking forward to your feedback!
Are you claiming Blackstone would continue to buy houses at current prices even with a 16fold increase in supply? In 2008 the government artificially backstopped loans not a free market fwiw
It is dumb and will likely add fuel to the fire and the politicians know this. Canada has like a 68% home ownership rate meaning actually doing something to lower housing prices would be political suicide.
But there are things they've done to save space, with a much larger effect than this, that they could simply have... not done, if that's what they were aiming for. Much more likely they're just sloppy sometimes, like most companies.
It's still in google's best interest that someone can use their phones without being spammed by porn ads or blocking Drive notifications.
I wonder if you've looked at AssemblyScript https://www.assemblyscript.org/
At least linux doesn't restart itself by default.
You can experience heroic drama, tragedy, and comedy all at the same time or all within the same day. Just look for them as they happen. Or think back to what you did yesterday and interpret what you did from the perspective of each of these stages.
> Windows GUI are not composable, news flash: almost no graphical app is, and even in linux it's not the case AFAIK. Fun point, some Desktop Environments have worse keyboard navigation than Win95

The author also ignores (or is ignorant of) that tools in PowerShell are generally far more powerfully composable than Linux tools in a bash-like environment.
Internal Server Error!
A timeout for regexps makes so much sense. And it would end all these denial of service security reports.
If you're a new startup, looking for a full-stack framework to scale with, and you want funding to start your journey from nonetheless, GitHub's co-founder...this is honestly a great opportunity
German news with Ukrainian and Russian subtitles
Lego and Epic Games Team Up to Build a Place for Kids to Play in the Metaverse
not really just look at canny.io https://twitter.com/sarahhum/status/1461378442256072712
Sure you can. Learn from people wiser than yourself. A lot of them have written books.
Love those designs as the colors are now a direct representation of the 90s.
> Hell, the guys who invented airplanes weren't even rich.

Sure, the Wrights were not rich. But Bill Boeing was. And Howard Hughes. Donald Douglas got financing to start Douglas. Allan Lockheed pretty much started from scratch. McDonnell developed its passenger jets from scratch.

Airliner travel was a paying concerned because of rich passengers. Flying for ordinary people did not come about until the 1960s.

BTW, jet engines were conceived and developed by private industry, because the government saw no value in them. Until the government saw flying jet aircraft.

P.S. The government airplane project, the Langley Aerodrome, cost something like twenty times what the Wright Flyer did, and simply fell into the Potomac like a sack of wet cement.
That Startups are fundamentally risky and despite all the talk on HN you are highly likely to spend years working in a high pace high stress environment for equity that will ultimately be worthless or at best match comp at FAANGs all while having questionable WLB.
Yeah, I saw the iframe and it definitely made me think. You could filter out "expensive" elements or smartly replace them with a thumbnail but eventually you will slowly go crazy. The image preview approach is definitely the sane and simple solution. It just feels less elegant. I would have a hard time resisting the urge to make it work somehow.