skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, TIL.

More info here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-mineral-oil-bad...

Relevant excerpt:

> When highly refined, mineral oils do not cause any adverse effects. However, if the petroleum is not highly refined, it may include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are carcinogenic. This means it may increase the risk of cancer.

> A 2019 article notes that in Europe, companies are only allowed to use mineral oils in cosmetics if they comply with specific purity regulations regarding PAHs. These regulations and safety requirements ensure that the mineral oils go through the refining process to remove any substances that may cause cancer and reduce the presence of PAHs.

> However, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, the mineral oils used in the United States are not as refined as they are in Europe.

> As a result, people should avoid buying products that contain mineral oil unless the label states that it is fully refined as white petrolatum or white mineral oil. White mineral oil is highly purified and meets specifications to ensure that it is safe to use in over-the-counter products.
Feels like you are intentionally misreading the comment you’re responding to. Plenty of wealthy people have self-doses drugs and destroyed their lives, their bodies. You really don’t see how medically supervised drug use could be beneficial while the self-dosed, unsupervised drug use could be explicitly destructive?
>Oh… I dunno, but this seems to be a fairly likely failure mode for a pan.

"too hot" in this context means "higher than smoke points of most oils". Like I said, they have their uses. If you're frying an egg you're likely not heating your pan to the point of smoking, and I'm certainly not going to be searing meats on a non-stick.
Aren't all those SEO optimized pages "blog posts"?

How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the "good" ones?
Great question! My goal with Sizzzle is to build a more social, user-friendly platform, rather than simply a tool to find food trucks. Sizzzle will ask users to review food trucks, and unlike Street Food Finder and other alternatives, Sizzzle will present vendors from an algorithm, rather than an arbitrary ranking. The app will also provide users with personalized recommendations.
Capitalism isn't the cause of all police brutality, but the upper class deliberately divides working people against each other, which creates the racism and classism (middle vs. lower) that makes it commonplace and which make brutal, racist police officers (who are probably not the majority) nearly invulnerable. You'd still have a few incompetent cops in any economic system, but it's because of capitalism's doing that there are so many bad apples on forces.

As for the pandemic, that's a trickier one--obviously, capitalism didn't create SARS-CoV-2--because, while capitalism exacerbated the harm, especially the economic harm, it's impossible to make a convincing case that COVID-19 would have been substantially worse in a socialist system: it kicked the shit out of every country it touched, and while that is true in a world where every country (even China) is capitalist, this nevertheless proves nothing about what would have happened in a world where, instead, socialism had won at the end of the 20th century.

Whether a socialist world could have contained COVID-19 depends on what kind of socialism we would have. Taking example from nuclear meltdowns, we have seen that, while preventable and minor so far, they can happen both in socialist societies (USSR/Chernobyl) and capitalist ones (TMI, Fukushima). Corner cutting and hierarchical mendacities are clearly not limited to one economic system (and I say this as a leftist who wants to abolish capitalism). A socialist society would likely have had less disinformation and ostensibly bizarre vaccine hesitancy--those are clearly artifacts of capitalist society and the market it creates for disinformation--but COVID-19 still would have been a disaster.

In a socialist world, we'd probably have seen a total death rate of 500-600 per million, comparable to Norway, for a total of about 4 million instead of the 10-15 we've had. That's still a really fucking awful number, because plagues are terrible and socialism is not some magic fairy dust that solves everything, but it's substantially less awful than what we got. Moreover, a socialist world would be able to recover from COVID-19, which our capitalist (so long as capitalism remains in force) one never will: people who are disabled by long COVID, transiently or permanently, have lost their careers and will never get them back.
The US government literally calls it the "War on Drugs". Given that it is notoriously difficult to maim, jail, or prosecute a chemical we can be assured it is actually a war on people. Having been through the system once myself, I can assure you that it is incredibly oppressive to poor people who cannot afford legal representation.

I'm all for someone deciding they need drugs to function. It doesn't matter to me how you live your life. If you do it with a doctor, fine. If you want to figure it out on your own because you don't have access to medical care, that does not make that person a criminal.

There are plenty of people self medicating with nicotine & alcohol every day, no one says it is necessary to lock them up. The only difference I see is it is a handy source of tax revenue and somehow "socially acceptable".
I hope autonomous buses are more patient with cyclists than human drivers are. Don't you love it when a bus passes you just before a bus stop, then brakes to a stop right in front of you, forcing you out into traffic to pass. Would only lose five seconds to slow down until the bike is past the stop.
I believe the dark parts of a hexclad pan are teflon.
It took mea little while too, but I've been using safety razors for almost ten years. Yeah, it took just doing all the right things by intuition. Dialing in the angle of the razor as i held it, getting good blades, getting the face clean and hot. Also, don't shave every day. I get a much better and more comfortable shave if i have two or three days of stubble.
Front-end Dev: "Hey, I need this data for this component I need to render. Can you add a route for it?"

Back-end Dev: "Sure, it's at /data/foo/bar."

Oh look, we don't need graphql anymore.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm working on building a web interface, and I expect to release it soon after the app.
I agree with you. But drugs and "microdosing" are marketed as holy grail that heals anything. My statement above is very easy way to disprove it.
The comparison with cash is flawed for 2 reasons:

1. Unlike so called "cryptocurrencies" you can't easily do cross-border transactions with large amount of cash.

2. Not sure about US and its states and territories, but in many countries in the world cash transactions are limited to relatively low amounts. And these amounts are shrinking every year.
I disagree. I alternate between Harry's 5 blade disposable and a classic safety razor (Feather blades and Merkur long handle). The disposables make for a faster and closer shave. It's also much harder to nick yourself with a disposable cartridge.

The advantage of the safety razor is that it's much, much cheaper, and it doesn't lift whiskers like a multiblade setup does, so it's not as close a shave, but it's gentler on your skin. Also, it's somewhat more enjoyable as a process to use a safety razor (once you get good at it).
https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom
Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021
>>A set including the razor body and some heads generally costs a little above £20 and replacement heads cost in the region of £1.75. Gillette claim that each blade can be used for 15 shaves. This sounds pretty optimistic to me. But who knows.

Who knows? I cannot possibly be the only male here who disputes this math. I have a Gillet razor, one with a fancy 5-blade rotating head. It also has a silly vibrator that I am too afraid to use. The blades last forever. Not 15 shaves. More like 150 or more. I have to shave literally every morning, often in a hurry and without shaving cream (military). But I never have any issues. I think that the last time I switched out the blade might have been September of last year when. I had dropped it on concrete and damaged the plastic head. The blades were still fine. The metallurgy behind these things is frankly astonishing.
There is only one conspiracy theory I believe in, it’s /reddit/r/castiron is a troll site created to make people believe ‘seasoning’ is really a thing.

After spending a few weeks trying, I’ve had multiple people tell me they got theirs ‘seasoned’ after three or four months.

Don’t let yourself be sucked in.
I don't see the problem. I like zsh and I can live with bash. I've tried fish, but it just didn't click with me.

Others swear by fish and how it revolutionised their terminal. Hell,I've seen people fall in love with Powershell of all shells because of its interactivity and cross platform scripting language that doesn't rely on Unix tools being present in $PATH. I don't get it, but that's okay; they can have their preferences and I can have mine.

You've got to find what works for you. Nano, emacs, .*vim, vi, using a magnetic needle to manually flip bits on a spinning platter, it doesn't matter, whatever keeps you happy and/or productive.

The vast majority of Linux users seem to use bash. Zsh has been picked up more and more by Apple for licensing and the "threat" of open source. I don't think shells like fish are a threat to the ecosystem as long as they keep the most basic form of compatibility with bash (not sh). You need bash installed anyway, otherwise you can't curl2bash to install "modern" Linux software!
>If you get a polished one (or polish it yourself - there's plenty of youtube videos on that) it'll be incredible non-stick.

Sounds pretty inconvenient to me, which directly opposes author's thesis.
And yet we have kindness in nature as well.
I can agree with everything that you’re saying! I think there’s one piece missing which changes the nature of the analysis.

If fossil fuel deposits were like water aquifers in the sense that they need to be protected, maintained, and replenished, that is one thing.

However I would argue this is not remotely true. We can draw down the fossil fuel reserves and never have to pay them back, if all along they way they successfully usher human civilization and technological advancement into a blooming post-petro society.

I don’t think the Earth as a habitat is worse off for not having extractable oil reserves left over by 2200 as long as human society doesn’t depend on them to function.

In essence these fuels are an essential stepping stone to technologically advanced society.

Without easily extractable high energy density liquids I don’t see how human civilization would have gotten to this point, and there’s a non-sci-fi future where we successfully move past them as it becomes economically exigent.
I've been using a safety razor (a Merkur Futur, for the curious ones) for years. Add in a decent brush and the upfront cost is about 100€.

As far as consumables go, I pay about 10€/year in blades (I buy 100 Voskhod blades at a time), 15€/year in shaving soap, and 20€/year in miscelanea (aftershave etc.).

Shaving is quite cheap if you don't fall into the printer cartridge model.
It's rather amusing that a long-winded article stating that people shouldn't describe the current American economic system as 'feudalism' doesn't bother to include the concepts of 'the aristocratic class' or 'inherited wealth and power.'

For example, one characteristic of a society divided into aristocrats and serfs (and lacking anything like the 'American middle class' of the 1960s) is a segregated educational system, with fundamentally different approaches for the posh vs. the proles. The various attacks on public schooling (like the effort to remove higher mathematics from public schools in California) and the elimination of state subsidies for higher education are certainly a step in that direction.

Another feature of this article is the lumping of all things 'capitalist' together, ignoring the very real distinction between commericial and investment capitalism, colloquially described as "Main Street" vs "Wall Street". Notably the latter is characterized by extreme concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a 'central committee' of Wall Street financiers; the former version of capitalism certainly has a much more distributed character in terms of wealth, power, land ownership etc.

Finally, this really is a 20th century argument that misses a fundamental characteristic of the 21st century: resource limitations. Regional water scarcity due to ongoing fossil-fueled global warming is a reality in many parts of the world, and this is more fundamental than ideological wrangling about societal structures. The resulting impacts on food production are physical and ecological in nature, not ideological - although the consequences could lead to things like the French Revolution, or the rise of authoritarian power to ensure food distribution (basically, that's China writ large).

I think the real split is going to be more about authoritarianism vs. libertarianism, and the libertarian track record on avoiding things like mass famine and consequent societal destabilization is perhaps not the best.
ProofWiki is an amazing resource for someone studying CS and math like myself. Definitions and lemmas are hyperlinked and the proof style is very clear. They even have multiple proofs for the same theorem. For instance[0], and they have a wide range of deeper topics such as measure theory[1].

Good proof style is like good program style, if you use a big hammer of a theorem (cf. library function), you risk making the result more opaque to the reader than necessary. Proof 1 of [0] can be understood by essentially following the definitions whereas proof 2 uses Orbit-Stabilizer, but the argument is still quite slick.

[0] https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Number_of_Distinct_Conjugate_Subs...

[1] https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Pointwise_Convergence_Implies_Con...
My wife and I got rid of our TV last year when we moved. It was a nice break, but we want at least one in the house, so we're currently shopping around for a nice 4K 70+ inch. I've come to realize the market is headed toward a TV without any ports. You'll plug it in and immediately prompted to link with wifi so you can log into your streaming services. Fuck that.

I'm hell-bent on getting something with zero smart function- just ports. TVs like that will become gold in the future, when smart tvs will have ad banners that you can't turn off. The cost of media has come full circle. My prediction is:
1. All TVs have smart functions and no input ports
2. TV manufactures will be cutting deals with advertisers to display banner ads. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to pay for ad free.
3. Aggregate streaming services will provide access to multiple services for a flat fee. Welcome back to cable!
4. Total cost of consuming TV media will be eat average income budgets away
Right but proper manual dom is generally faster than optimized react code. That does not means that in general manual dom code is proper.
Just go through the docs. They have a ton of single hyphen long opts that aren't a letter with argument.
You've probably tried everything but if not try soap with lanolin that helps a lot and try cream instead of soap. Also some people don't get so irritated skin if they use duller blades. But you might just be out of luck.
Before something like the 1950s, casting techniques created a much rougher pan that fundamentally required grinding of the surfaces to make a usable cook surface. New(er) casting techniques developed that had a much tighter sand-pack for the casting mold, plus some sand blasting after the mold, made for a faster production cycle, but at the cost of leaving a slightly pebbly surface on the pan.

Because the older techniques weren't close to usable after the casting, the cleanup process made for a smoother pan. Because the newer techniques were much closer to usable after the mold, less cleanup was put into them, resulting in a rougher pan.

A cheap angle grinder is good enough for the relatively soft iron alloy used in cast iron pans. Grind the surface down smooth (don't forget to wear a face mask!), then finish up with increasing grades of sandpaper until you get a nearly mirror surface on the pan. Season the pan a couple of times and you'll be left with one of the most durable, non-stick surfaces for cooking that you can possibly have.
> shaving is too expensive

maybe, but many men have decided not to shave anymore anyway

> about gillette and co

I have used both the "disposable" blades (that barely last a week) and the more robust ones that last a month (proper razor blades), and the thing is, the shaving experience is completely difference. The proper razor blades are very sharp and can result in cuts if you are not careful, whereas it's fairly difficult to cut yourself with a Gilette or Schick for that matter. They work in very different dimensions. It's almost not the same product.
What’s a good brand? I am new to cast iron and have a lodge and am okay with it for breakfast stuff.
In exchange for learning how to keep it seasoned, you get to use metal cooking instruments again.

Cleaning cast iron is easier than cleaning teflon or stainless. However, you'll want something to scrape it with, and a stanless steel pot scrubber.

We use cast iron on our induction range with no problems. The only issues I've heard of involve scratching. The new models don't seem to have that issue (and cast is no scratchier than stainless, etc).
Is there any world in which global air travel doesn’t arise but where people are better off overall? I feel like regardless of your method of allocation of resources, people are going to want to go experience other places. If a society isn’t doing any of that, it seems unlikely that it’s because they’re too busy doing other things that are so amazingly compelling that no one desires to travel. The desire for adventure and novelty is not a capitalistic desire, but rather a human one.

I can’t therefore conclude that global air travel is “capitalism’s fault” and, as contagious as SARS-COV2 is, a pandemic was virtually assured.
The food taster thing is a little silly IMO, Jacques Pépin taught me long ago the single most indispensable tool for the kitchen is the tongue.

Its akin to inventing a machine for a sculptur, which bounces sound across the thing they are working on to tell them what it looks like.

Edit: couldn't you test for acidity with a simple pH strip?
why do you need the time on your microwave ?
I appreciate your concern, and I'd support some kind of increased transparency into delivery options' carbon intensity; I'd be happy to choose as delayed shipping as possible if it could help guarantee a lower-carbon trip!
We've gone from a market where you got shit if you weren't careful, to a market where you get shit if you're not careful.

JVC and Panasonic produced garbage CRTs and VCRs and DVD players and stereo equipment for years, but they sold like hotcakes because they were cheap. You had to choose carefully what to buy, and make sure the place had a decent return policy just in case. There were some brands with good reputations, others that were hit-or-miss, and some just plain garbage. Now is no different.

FWIW I bought the Samsung and the Sharp online through Amazon (because they have a good return policy). I returned the Samsung and kept the Sharp.
Perhaps related: https://github.com/andysylvester/federated-bookshelves
A nice virtual bookshelf that also has reviews / notes for all of the books is https://books.rixx.de/.
It also has categories and a graph of relations between books.
The code is open source as well: https://github.com/rixx/books.rixx.de
Thanks for the comment! I have a web version in production, and I expect to release it shortly after the mobile app.

I'll admit that the extra z is a challenge for users; branding is something that I'll need to evaluate.
always loved this sound. Too bad the obnoxiously caricaturized underground Memphis/phonk revival abused it a bit much.
So does this system not require that I set a password for my account?

Everything I have read about this approach seems to imply that passwords are still used, only perhaps not as often.

For instance, there's this quote from the article:

"Bellovin and others say one potentially tricky scenario in this new passwordless authentication scheme is what happens when someone loses their mobile device, or their phone breaks and they can’t recall their iCloud password."
Is he scraping the heap because the data wasn't present in the HTML, or is he doing it because the API response, present in the heap changes less often than the HTML?
This reads like something my 88-year-old father would write.

"Everything used to be better, and hamburgers should cost a nickle!"

Look, as consumers, we make choices. You can still get a safety-razor on Amazon if you want.

The trouble is... man, if you don't know how to use them right, you can get some nasty cuts. For me... modern idiot-proof razors that this article rants against... well they're just bliss. I can't remember the last time I cut myself shaving.

My Dad said something like, "They sure don't make cars like they used to!" And I said, "No, they don't... they're much safer now, much better gas mileage..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck
Have a look at cloud66.com It takes a different approach to the problem: it creates an environment like Heroku but on your servers on any cloud. This creates many benefits, including persistent storage and support for all available regions of your cloud provider of choice. But it also makes a big difference in availability: your application is not dependent on Cloud 66’s availability and won’t go down.
Cool project, fun writeup, and more cowbell. Personal pet peeve warning—the components and wiring on the breadboard could use some love. It’s a bit of a mess with the long leads jammed into the board. Clipping the leads down would clean it up a lot.
I wasn’t particularly interested in entering the discussion (mainly providing the link and an explanation), but I used the word "feudal" because Yarvin himself used it, in the name as well as in the description of the system.
But that is the case for both vaccinated and unvaccinated - he's intentionally ignoring everything except death. I think the simplicity is a strength.
This is cool! I'd never used this despite being an Amazon user for 14 years/however long the Amazon Day has existed.

Lately I've tried to find non-Amazon options to meet my needs, but this'll be great to know for the future :)
You can self host Budibase, and use other external data sources too.
Even their prime minister can code in C/C++: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
In general, variable fonts work by defining multiple "masters" that can be interpolated between. While I'm not sure if Glyphs was used to create this font in particular, this page from Glyphs' documentation summarizes how the process works:

https://glyphsapp.com/learn/creating-a-variable-font
They observe things right here on Earth, even up to the orbit of satellites. That effort, no matter how secretive, is very well funded. Now, looking for a needle in the universal hay stack takes time and dedication, you can't seriously expect a massive sky scan to be completed in four decades, specially when the funding is not that generous.
Overheated Teflon. Not egg cooking temps
I've been shaving with double edge razors for decades. I just shave "dry" after I get out of the shower. I have never once used any of those other products. My blades each last a few months (I shave 1-2 times a week), so a package of 100 lasts me... in theory, 25 or so years. Which sounds about right, as I bought a package a decade or so ago and am starting to get towards halfway through.

Shaving can be very simple and cheap.
Thanks for the comment, and that's a good point! Branding is something I might have to do some experimenting with...