skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donate your perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to those in need!

Hmm:

> As to the question of what happens to recipients of this blood: “Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are ubiquitous, and no threshold has been identified that poses an increased risk to recipients of donated blood components.”
my contract is directly related to the post box office profits of the movie.
This logic is still flawed. If I stole a ride on a train, am I stealing from the people who made the train?
Discrimination in hiring is always harmful, what matters is if its acceptable. If you don't hire a high school drop out to be a physicist, he is objectively worse off (harmed). Even if you assume that men are better off than women (I don't) discrimination is harmful (they are worse off), but they wind up still better off than the woman so its acceptable.
I'd second the emulator recommendation. While programming, say, an Apple ][+ can be fun, getting one running maybe not so much. Plus, with an emulator, you'll have the ability to do things like write your code in a modern editor and then paste it over to the emulator rather than trying to work with 8-bit tools. I used to hand-assemble my 6502 code back in the day because I couldn't afford to buy a fancy macro assembler, but I wouldn't recommend writing code in long hand and filling in the hex codes on paper before typing it all in to anyone in 2022.
I think your anger is misdirected. Take the diabetes study for example:

Scientists didn't publish the headline "Mouthwash twice a day increases diabetes risk by 50%". That was the press. The press are generally the ones who drop all the uncertainty/nuance and add the panic. And the scientifically illiterate public don't question how the headlines represent the studies and think each study contradicts the previous. Switching examples for a moment: does "eggs are bad" -> "eggs good again", etc. sound familiar? Bet you can't find studies that state that so absolutely though...

Instead, in the diabetes study the scientists showed a correlation, suggested a mechanism by which it might be true, described limitations of their data and analysis, and proposed areas for further study. And they answered questions from interested parties such as the author of the article I linked. This is real science. It moves slowly.

I'm interested to see follow-up studies. In the meantime, we live with uncertainty. A possibility has been raised but neither proven nor disproven, and it's a personal choice how we change our behavior. I think the article I linked had a good take—with the potential downsides, it's wise to look at how much benefit we get from antiseptic mouthwash as opposed to just brushing well and the like. YMMV.

> only fools and those personally invested in “the science” take any “study” with anything less than a metric ton of salt.

I think the real foolish move is taking a mainstream press article as representative of the study it describes with anything less than a metric ton of salt. You'd be wise to consider if you're doing this...
It’s no wonder they fired the AI ethics department if this is the output.
Fishing is mostly an excuse to sit on a boat and drink beer all day (a high quality activity I fully support in moderation)

Car enthusiasts are mostly about making something look cool and have certain stats, it’s about fun not utility.
Time on site seems like a massively critical time variable, especially with infrastructure people want to use, e.g. a road/highway. Time off site is presumably much cheaper, certainly less disruptive.

The title feels informative to me.
The US badly needs a new and progressive president, Biden is trying to hold on to the wrong things.
This SV culture is being exported to the rest of the world at an alarming pace.

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...
You are lumping all progressive people together.

You also assume they are female.

Why?
My assumption is virtuosity is explained by the associated crowds of said activities.

Playing video games is occasionally associated with the NEET crowd, likely because of the low barrier to entry in terms of experience.

Exploring nature and working on mechanical things requires some prior knowledge, experience and/or space to get started.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls055592025/
This is the hypocrisy of radical leftists in a nutshell. They claim to fight racial thinking while in fact just making it more prominent than it's been in decades.
You are wrong. You’re focusing on the wrong thing here. It’s not whether the good can still be sold, it’s about whether the business can continue to get money.

Say you have a business idea. Perhaps something that you want to patent. I use it and start my own business, rendering your potential business moot.

Did I steal from you? If so, what did I steal?
You mean about Abercrombie & Fitch? The company whose former CEO Mike Jeffries effectively spelled out his tactics in a now-infamous profile on the news site Salon, saying: "We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong (in our clothes), and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."[1]

[1]https://edition.cnn.com/style/amp/abercrombie-fitch-exclusio...
I was never into comics as a kid, but started reading some after a podcaster I like sold me on how good they can be. I subscribed to Marvel Unlimited, and started reading the older comics (from the 40s, 50s, and 60s)

They are a lot of fun once you understand the art form, but there are a lot of problematic things with them, just like any work from 80 years ago.

I got into reading some of them with my 5 year old daughter, and she loves the old ones. I sometimes have to explain some things to her, and why some things we read aren’t ok, but she likes them.

We also found quite a few more modern comics that are perfect for kids her age. We love reading Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur together, and we also love reading Squirrel Girl comics. We stay away from some of the more dark comics that feature the most popular super heroes.

I guess my point is that there are a lot more super hero comics than just the MCU ones, and some are much more kid appropriate than others. I appreciate a world that has adult and kid comics. Why can’t we have both?

One other thing I noticed with my two kids (6 and 3 now) is that what scares and traumatizes them the most aren’t the things that scare adult me the most. For example, I am way more disturbed by death than my kids. Characters dying don’t bother my kids like it does me. I think it is likely due to not really understanding what death is, exactly. They have not lost people and don’t understand the permanence.

On the other hand, random things that don’t seem scary at all can scare the crap out of them. My 3 year old will want to watch the fight to the death between sharptooth and little foot’s mom in Land Before Time over and over, but freaks out over the opening montage in Moana.
I would guess that you could uncover this information in Snapchat's 10K filings.

In fact, I found the answer to your question on the 4th page of their annual filing to shareholders[1]:

> While these metrics are determined based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring how our products are used across large populations globally. For example, there may be individuals who have unauthorized or multiple Snapchat accounts, even though we forbid that in our Terms of Service and implement measures to detect and suppress that behavior. We have not determined the number of such multiple accounts.

It seems to me that Snap is quite open about their active user counts.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/filing/6183813
Occasionally it redeems you.
I can agree it isn't easier for those who don't know it. It's like saying the CLI is easier than a GUI - sure, for you.

The things this person lists are things I agree with, however. I actually have Amazon Prime Video but still enjoyed watching my friend's pirated copies on Plex, because there is no way to force-disable shitty compression levels, even if I have gigabit Internet.

Also, my friend can make sure their video library never changes or goes away, and that certain rarer content is archived forever, not subject to the changes of George Lucas or Disney editing out "problematic" content.
I think there's a good argument to keep terms to maintain the historical connection. There's a boatload of math and CS terms that are very, very poorly named, but if you renamed them, you lose the link to prior sources.
And in male-dominated occupations. Discrimination happens on the individual level.
Frankly, they shouldn't have increased their subscriber fees recently. It's not the time. They could've done it closer to the beginning of the pandemic, when it wouldn't have really affected the amount of subscribers, as people would've kept subscribed anyway - but to do it now was suicide. I know at least 5 people - personally - who quit Netflix after that.

The password sharing thing is also huge, as due to the insanity of the fragmentation that the ludicrous number of streaming services has caused, a lot of friends and families cope by subscribing to one service apiece and sharing them among each other.

As soon as these little tricks stop working and it becomes more expensive, people will just drop it. It's not like Netflix has actually worked on any value adds recently - tbh I feel their content offerings have gotten so poor recently it's next on the chopping block for me, too.
> "corporate overlords".

Please use more inclusive language, like "overpersons", or "overaristocracy".
Sharing is caring?
around anywhere from 2 - 25 cents per viewing per consumer. Over the course of my career that can break down to easily 7 figures if I was to work on say the original Star Wars.
It's not theft, it's piracy.
Saying that fixing cars or fishing as a hobby "produce useful byproducts" is like saying playing video games and PC tinkering produces useful byproducts of programmers and content creators.
You should read the article. You're arguing against a position the author does not take.

I know this is the internet and everyone just reads the headline, but comments like this are frustrating.
I don't like how "toxic forever chemicals in the bloodstream" is a normal thing

Veritasium has a great YouTube video about this: "The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History"[0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
The last calculations I saw on green hydrogen put it around 100x the cost of current energy prices. That is a far distance to fall before it reach competitive prices, and until then people are murder each other over fossil fuels and causing global extinctions. If you want to call those nuclear plants for nukes, then I will call current energy policies for planet killers.

Someone has to take responsibility while waiting for that cost to come down. A proper market solution would be to ban fossil fuels now and let non-fossil fuels alternative compete for investment and research. Not hopes and dream but technology that works when one can not just fall back on burning murder gas. Fossil fuel advocates are working very hard to convince people that coal should be replaced with natural gas, rather than non-fossil fuel alternatives.
> no equivalent for Insteon KeypadLinc

there are a variety of HomeKit buttons that are sold as e.g. dimmers or multi-bulb, but in fact can trigger arbitrary homekit devices, scenes, automations, etc. i’m guessing these fall in the category you say “comes close”?

an example of what i mean is “Philips Hue v2 Smart Dimmer Switch and Remote” which is actually 4 arbitrary device, scene, or automation buttons that magneticallly stays on wall or comes off to be a remote. there are also a few beautiful button sets made with wood, fabric, etc., launched on kickstarter. by working with homekit, you can be sure they will not require their proprietary cloud to stay functional.

that said, i’m a fan of ipad touch wallmount, like this in white:

https://www.amazon.com/VidaMount-Wall-iPod-5th-Mount/dp/B01N...

with this you get arbitrary button sets for arbitrary systems, and price is competitive with locked-in options — remember the very early days “Philips ProntoPro” universal remote with arbitrarily programmable LCD screens that could emulate any physical button layout?

or if you want something that does that for limited scenes, plus AV remote any house guest can pick up and use without instruction, there’s the interesting LogiTech Harmony Hub with the “Companion All-in-One” remote that doesn’t have a screen but does have buttons for scenes, super useful if you’re in the Alexa or Hue systems. i use the on-remote buttons for the lights of the room the remote lives in.
> Trying to pass those concerns off as minor considerations after the biodegradability and recyclability of wool is just... incredible.

You wrote «is»: did you mean «would be»? Who is «trying to pass those concerns off as minor considerations»?

There have been in some areas bureaucratic issues with wool, as if it were "warning-label class material": this has / has had people check a few facts.

Edit: which by the way means, some wool may have been treated in a way that raised concern in public health monitoring entities. Think of the Amazon, but do not forget those thing that are there touching your skin. You could want to look into it.

Anyway: when the issue is with production, maybe there are ways to partially fix it. Were the material toxic, you'd have in a way a bigger problem.

And anyway, surely the vast majority of us HN members reasons through quantities and vets the given puzzle pieces to at least some extent: as ericd noted, Cost/Risks/Benefit analysis are duly as what you have are options, with different tradeoffs and complications, and having further promising ones is certainly beneficial.
It can be harmful to individuals without being harmful to the group. Men aren't marginalized in society, but an individual man can certainly be discriminated against in a specific instance. If a hospital had a policy of never hiring male nurses that shouldn't be acceptable.
Movies are different than games (and music) however. While I have rewatched movies--multiple times in a (relatively small) number of cases, movies are mostly one and done for me--and I imagine most adults.

That said, I don't know why the 48 hour limit on rentals got normalized. I've fallen asleep, gotten distracted, etc. while watching a movie and I don't like now being forced to watch it soon.
I remember comics in the 1980's and they weren't pure escapist fantasy written for children. They tackled very adult subjects like reparations and slavery through the Genotia series in the X-Men and how the mutants were the stand-ins for the African Americans, where Genotia (a fictitious nation) enslaved them and America stripped their rights away, using the force of the Sentinels to do so. I was maybe 12 during this story line and it was foundational on how I treat and view people.

Then there are the comics written by Alan Moore, including The Watchmen. Again, I read these during my formative years but they are most certainly not aimed at children. They do show that these heroes of men, stand ins for the adults of children, are fallible. It was door opening in its literary literary narrative, not just its illustration (which is not the best, as far as comics go - I say to much disapproval).

Many of these comics, which often get maligned as literature for children, are very much written for adults by adults, tackling adult themes and adult sensibilities. Well, they were. Modern comics have lost me, chasing an audience is not a way to sell to the audience, I'm afraid. If you want to capture an audience, it isn't with focus groups and charts and data, it's with story and vision... if you have a real story to tell, you hope there's an audience for it. It's an artistic process, not one grown in a lab =(
No, the protected classes are things like "gender" and "race". It's baffling how many people seem to think that discrimination protection carve out exemptions that permit discrimination against men.
Sometimes I think the different camps on this just break down on the "shoulder tap" line. I hate having my "shoulder tapped" (literally or metaphorically) and never tap on someone else's shoulder. A message saying "hey let me know when you get a chance to talk" is so much better for everyone IMO.

But I recognize that other people feel the opposite and I have no problem with that. I'd like to be able to work my way and for them to be able to work their way.
> Life is best spent in service to others.

Maybe for you, not for me. I live life to serve myself above all else. It so happens that helping people I care about also serves me, because it makes me happy. But "for the greater good" is an incredibly toxic, near cult-like mentality that should absolutely not be encouraged without nuance.
I've yet to explore Tor. Are you saying there's a reason I shouldn't? I mostly just want to see how my own sites perform, and haven't gotten around to it yet.
For some reason I suddenly have to think of Twitter and Firefox. Dunno why.
This car reviewer tried it (with his mom holding the button) and it would've pancaked him too (they tried it twice, once with his mom's motherly instinct letting go of the button): https://youtu.be/kW2W2l2kXFM?t=410
I love steam. And the revenues from steam allow valve to experiment and explore (and support my favorite esport Dota2). The Valve Index and Steam Deck would not exist were it not for revenue from Steam. Not to mention Proton. As long as they keep doing interesting things, and allow me to play the games I buy offline (which they do), I will continue to be a Steam fan.
Because the people/forces pushing them can’t be trusted.

Pushing such terms is (while presumably this is not the conscious intent) a means of cementing power by showing who (as in, “what vague coalition”, not “which specific people”) is in control.
On the more "history" side of things -- Podcasts!

My very first introduction to anything "old" tech was through the TechStuff podcast[0] (re: 2011-era episodes, so sort by oldest).

More recently the On The Metal podcast[1] has been a really cool deep dive into old tech history, especially the episode (season 2) with John Graham Cumming.

About implementations, my first real playing around with assembly was "Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly in 28 days"[2].

[0]: https://player.fm/series/techstuff-2152808

[1]: https://oxide.computer/podcasts

[2]: https://tutorials.eeems.ca/ASMin28Days/welcome.html
And I thought it's a next-level ultrasonic knife, https://youtu.be/uK4hvcUxNFw ; makes a geeky present indeed.
True, though the study addresses that point too, and that demonstrably does not happen, in Sweden at least.
Understanding and Optimizing Parallelism in NumPy-Based Programs [slides]
Smurfette was created by the evil wizard Gargamel to undermine Smurf society.

(I'm not joking, that's canon.)
> convenient form factors often beat more cumbersome devices over the long term

You worked on this so know more than me. As a user, I'd find it very cumbersome to hold my phone constantly for AR. I would much prefer glasses if they're comfortable and look normal.
Excuses. If money is a problem, pack lunch. You can eat cold food and won't die. You can pack sandwiches. You can use a food warmer to keep your food warm. Eat breakfast before you leave, eat lunch at work, have some snacks in your bag. Your main cost will be transportation. Outside of that, wear the same old cloths as much as possible, do your own laundry if you have a washing machine. You will trade time for money. You will have to spend time cooking, packing lunch, washing cloths and ironing. That's a small price to pay if money is tight.
I would tend to agree. Another factor is that people have choices now. There are other public streaming companies which gives investors something to compare to. When you are out there on your own the sky is the limit for stock price. Now it's why should more for a premium for X when Y is growing faster etc.
So what, let'em choose to work with whoever they want. If it's all women, so be it. Only men? Whatever. I don't wanna work in either of these organizations.

I think the best answer to these divisive, sexist or racist behaviors is to show them in practice they're dumb, kick their ass in the market.

An open-minded, welcoming organization is going to attract the best minds. Collectively, these people will kick those ideological-driven asses.

EDIT: my point is we cannot legislate change to these people's minds. The only sustainable way forward is to let reality teach them. If we try to impose change like this, it'll only lead to more divisions in society.

If I see a lot of racist behaviors against blacks, or latinos or whatever, I'd be glad to join them and work hard to kick these racists out of the game.
Ah, sorry. Found it as .pdf as well => https://www.spohngymnasium.de/images/stories/presse/SZ_2018_...
Are other cases of online abuse, workplace harassment, discrimination, etc. so rare that people are actually chasing problems like this for a paycheck? It would be wonderful if that was the case, but I doubt that it is.
In the other quarters, I'm not sure that the e pluribus unum melting pot concept is any less obsolete. All of our various factions seem headed in the direction of fracture and balkanization, we just vary on the details.
there's hills I'd rather die on but it feels silly. What's appropriate is the transfer of the concept, not by how we judge the style of the analogy.

Ultimately if you're trying to edge proof language then you're just changing which bunch of people you're pissing off but I feel like people who do this act like its impossible they could piss anyone off over this.
What i don't understand is how they can roll out this feature, while the last few weeks I've suddenly started getting spammed in Google Drive with obscene garbage that can only be blocked on an instance by instance basis. Surely they could offer some gate that allows the user to deploy such filters where they actually want them?
> Forced lgt

So you agree then that hetero relationships in children's media is also a political agenda?
Lots of people, and I think the narrative that they died when instagram copied stories is sort of bogus. I know way more people who use and have used snapchat than who use Twitter. - Millenial
I'd imagine it's because it gets extremely tedious. Switching out only whitelist and blacklist isn't a big deal, but with the ever increasing list of words being deemed as 'bad' (e.g. the 'mother' example) it becomes increasingly annoying to communicate. After all, it's distracting from the point just to virtue signal to certain types of vapid personalities.

Most people don't see 'blacklist' with racist connotations or think 'motherboard' is in any way at odds with transgenderism.