skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this "GA still uses leaded gas" thing thrown around here a lot. And while it's technically true, what I never see accompanying it are any numbers. Things like how many gallons of avgas are burned over time compared to how many gallons of leaded mogas were burned prior to it being outlawed. Or the results of anyone's blood labs. The other day someone was complaining about lead exposure from being near a small airport. Had they been tested and found to have high levels of lead in their blood? Oddly enough, they didn't say. You'd think if they were that concerned, they'd have the numbers to back it up, but they didn't.

I'm not saying leaded avgas is good by any means, but I would very, very much like to see some actual quantification of its effects before we all decide it's some kind of global catastrophe on par with having an active nuclear meltdown in every living room on Earth.
Is it rude that you suggested that FaceTime calls are so unimportant it's expected you'll be distracting yourself with other activities while they're going on? If not, why not?
They're the same withdrawal... Benzos are just far more potent, so the dependence can happen MUCH faster, in like days.
That is false. The President enjoys immunity for many actions taken as President, but not all actions can be considered official, and not all actions are immunized.

State charges, especially committed before taking federal office, are certainly possible.
> And I think you're just proving my point here - all of these are problems that only a subset of tech people even have.

Yes, but can't you have many possible computer programs, that different users may prefer? Shouldn't you be able to make multiple kinds, whether a lot of users want it or only a few users? Unfortunately, the existing complexity and mess of WWW makes it difficult.
Sorry to answer my own post, but I watched it again and picked up on the key idea at 2:09.

The inverted apex of the cone drives into the steel, pushing the steel aside, but then the apex opens up and flows back along the outside of itself. In other words, any given part of this copper "wire" interacts with the steel only long enough to push it open, then it is replaced by new copper.

From this explanation, it sounds like the tunnel that has been "bore" through the steel would be completely coated from start to finish by the inverted copper cone.
I am not a designer, so I take a more pragmatic view. If the intent is to earn money through your website and you are earning a ton of it, then you've succeeded. It doesn't matter if an outsider considers it good or bad design. But that'
s just my simple-minded view.
A bit of everything. I'm a simple person. Fun job with lots of time off and the Canadian wilderness is all I need.
Mutual fund units are a claim on future production. They connect to the the animate. A gold coin can never pay you a dividend.
The issue here is that the FDA and Abbot didn't treat it as an emergency when the Abbot facility was forced to close in the first place. Had they acted as if it was an emergency, they would have mobilized all available resources to clean and disinfect the facility, replace the faulty milk drying equipment, and get the facility back up and running. Here we are, months later and it's now an emergency. Sure, importing from other countries will help, but like toilet paper, it's a product that has a pretty consistent demand and there isn't a lot of surge capacity out there, even in other countries, so we really need to get the facility back online.

The issue isn't bad government policy - infant formula is strictly regulated for very good reasons, it's a lack of urgency from the government and private sector to make sure a medically critical product is available.

Also, of course, we shouldn't have let such a critical product mostly be made by 3 companies, but that's another rant.
I'd expect he needs to commune with the Force at times, no? Sure, he's fallen to the Dark Side and all, but it's still the Force that he draws his power from. I'd imagine there's a good amount of overlap with traditional Jedi practices.
Wrong on both counts

Sorry for being rude, but this level of ignorance is extremely frustrating.
Does java provide warnings against calling static methods on Objects?
This is incredibly short-sighted and ignorant of any externalities. We lost American manufacturing not because of regulation, but because of trade policies that allowed global corporations to avoid those regulations and profit by outsourcing manufacturing to countries with laxer regulations.

I do not want 'America's entrepreneurs' to start producing infant formula without any safeguards. That is recipe for disaster.
> (obviously they aren't going to give us step by step instructions).

nitrocellulose is very simple to make and detonate... and is also very stable.... I don't see why we need secrets... I played with that stuff when I was a teenager
I never have a craving for something sweet. Not since I was like 5 years old. I will eat sweets from time to time, but usually only when pressured socially to do so. Sweets seem repulsive to me, make my tonsils cringe. I haven't binged on sweets ever since that halloween stomach ache in 1976.

Glad that a protein shake works for you.
We are currently out on top at the moment which is proper weird.
Also tricky - asking your donor to be tested for diseases which can be passed via breast milk. Such as AIDS...
The lesson I've had to keep learning (at least over the past few years) is the value of "trust". I've been able to go into any supermarket and not have to think too much about the safety of each individual product because I've trusted a mixture of

* capitalism (to leverage the profit motive to pressure companies to keep quality high enough that a competitor can't take their market share),
* government (to fund centralized agencies that develop subject matter experts who act as OSS maintainers of vital public infrastructure and OSINT researchers who are authorized to explore a lot of ~~CSS~~ close sourced situations and enforce quality requirements for the American project), and
* journalism (to listen for problems and sound the alarm when appropriate)

to liberate myself from the need to evaluate the safety of each product. If even a small fraction of US consumers lost that trust and had to think about the safety of every product before putting it in their cart, it would shake up at least tens of billions of dollars of annual food spending (a ~$1.7 trillion per year sector), redirecting spending towards less processed foods. The added fear and decision fatigue could even cause consumers to simply end up buying less.

Empirically, the capitalism mechanism works pretty well most of the time, but when it fails, ideally a government agency would be sufficiently empowered to A) accurately identify such situation and B) intervene in time to prevent harm to people or markets, but even there, there has to be some level of trust, because the cost of regulations strong enough to overcome the most skillfully engineered fraud would be paralyzing to productivity and starve consumers. In this case, the FDA was notified of the issues and audited but the facility's management was actively hostile to oversight and falsified records to conceal their dangerous failures. From here, there are two reasonable ways to proceed, and a sad and unreasonable way I fear we'll go:

Reasonable way 1. Treat these deaths as negligent homicides, open very well resourced federal investigations into the situation, federally fund criminal prosecutions at whichever level is most painful (municipal or federal), pierce the corporate veil if there's even a whiff of C-level culpability, and generally make a loud and public example of the consequences for evading oversight through fraudulent means.
Reasonable way 2. Significantly expand the resources available to federal agencies and rework incentive structures so that failures like this will taint involved bureaucrats (thereby impeding their career progression both within their agency and as a lobbyist). Politicians who starve agencies of resources or authority will also be held to account for the impacts of their actions in a sufficiently public way that it will stain their wikipedia page forever.
Sad and unreasonable way: news coverage of this topic will focus on shortages, angry consumers, and Joe Biden's poll numbers, while coverage of the crimes at the root of the shortage go unmentioned in major reporting.
Young Blood for Old Brains (2016)
Single text file.

3 main categories: Must do, should do, could do. (Plus a couple of other for recurring and seasonal).

On Sunday eve or Monday morning I go through, add new things, delete done things.

Then pick things I want to do this week and transfer it on a sheet of paper that sits on my desk.
Jet and resolved features of the central black hole M87 observed with EHT
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.04623.pdf

"We report our independent image reconstruction of the M 87 from the public data of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaborators (EHTC). Our result is different from the image published by the EHTC.

Our analysis shows that (a) the structure at 230 GHz is consistent with those of lower frequency VLBI observations, (b) the jet structure is
evident at 230 GHz extending from the core to a few mas, though the intensity rapidly
decreases along the axis, and (c) the “unresolved core” is resolved into bright three
features presumably showing an initial jet with a wide opening angle of ∼ 70◦.

The ring-like structures of the EHTC can be created not only from the public data,
but also from the simulated data of a point image.
Also, the rings are very sensitive
to the FOV size. The u-v coverage of EHT lack ∼ 40 µas fringe spacings. Combining
with a very narrow FOV, it created the ∼ 40 µas ring structure. We conclude that the
absence of the jet and the presence of the ring in the EHTC result are both artifacts
owing to the narrow FOV setting and the u-v data sampling bias effect of the EHT
array.

Because the EHTC’s simulations only take into account the reproduction of the
input image models, and not those of the input noise models, their optimal parameters
can enhance the effects of sampling bias and produce artifacts such as the ∼ 40 µas
ring structure, rather than reproducing the correct image."
Intriguing one since I often hear the opposite advice.
Very nicely done. I can see that it's the first version and there are some discoverability issues. But the functionality is great!

My wish list would be to add the app to the Share sheet when sharing a photo. And on the other side (Windows in my case), it would be nice to have an indicator that the file has arrived.
> No offense, but that sounds like a poorly funded company.

None taken. Not just poorly funded, but often penny-wise and pound-foolish. That's one of many reasons they're a former employer.
You realize we’re already in the middle of a massive construction labor shortage, right?
100% this. The worst part about ADHD treatment is all the disruptions of care to prevent people trying to abuse it. I personally don't give a rat's ass if people want to take adderall to go out and party or masturbate either. They'd probably have fun with less negative health effects or risk of fights/belligerence compared to alcohol...

But for some reason the government (the FDA) and medical field in general cares about abuse a lot. In the past few weeks, Cerebral got labelled a pill mill by the FDA/execs and as a result almost all ADHD telemedicine patients are having a hard time getting prescriptions filled. Sending a prescription to multiple places sequentially (because they keep refusing to fill it) or calling a pharmacy in advance to ask if they'd fill the prescription runs the risk of being labelled a drug seeker, and any power-tripping retail pharmacist - who doesn't know anything about you at all - can just refuse to fill your prescription if they want. Asking your provider for a higher dose is also anxiety-inducing for similar reasons.

The worst part is, people with ADHD still build a dependence/tolerance on amphetamines/methylphenidate. So running out of your medicine is really disruptive - not only do your symptoms go untreated, but they become worse than they'd be if you were unmedicated for a long interval, plus you have to deal with things like not feeling fully awake, being hungrier, lethargic, sleeping more while your body adjusts back to being unmedicated. But for some reason that's acceptable as long as we prevent people from taking amphetamines for fun.
The first think I noticed was this "OHM Worldwide Rendering Testbed" about 30 miles east of Seattle. https://openhistoricalmap.org/#map=12/47.7505/-121.7306&laye...
I couldn’t find what you’re referring to.

This is what I found:

* Utah Valley State College (Orem, UT)

* Universal Visa Services Center (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

* Unadilla Valley Sports Center (Edmeston, NY)

* Used-Vehicle Sales and Certification Study (J.D. Power and Associates)

* Uranium Ventilation Scrubber Cell

And a cancer survivor charity.
"This whole scheme, done under the guise of welfare, is essentially a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the poor, done by enriching the baby formula cartel."

I'm not sure how transferring wealth from the middle class to the poor would be "under the guise of welfare" rather than "welfare". No, enriching the cartel is not good.
I deliberately said “new parent”.
I recommend this to all iOS users that are also on Linux (or run KDE Connect on Windows) because KDE Connect is an awesome piece of software.

I do find it interesting that they've published a GPLv3 application in Apple's App Store, though. I recall the App Store and GPLv3 not going together well, though I must admit that I never cared enough to read into the details.
Freedom.net was the platform. Zeroknowledge.net was the company. The first big "purge" happened in spring 2001 , not long after the Freedom.net 2.0 release. One morning logins did not work. Big all hands meeting with the message: should you stay or should you go letter at your desk.
I have no inside stories of why it happened just my experiences. One of the Hills said to me on hiring "Next year I am going to be a billionaire and you will be a millionaire". 9 months later 100 people were let go in one day. I don't what happen after that but the ownership group and insiders (about 25 people) did pivot to another internetish company. I was at another company during 9/11.
> Have you researched why those regulations came about?

Yes. Almost all of them stem from before the internet. Publication requirements prevented accidental trademark infringement and provided public notice. Similarly for foreign entity registration. Business licenses linked business addresses to the tax registry. Hairdressing because many barbers provided shaves, which involves a sanitary component.
Society is long dead in {{this location}}. See {{example rape case}}, {{example murder case}}, {{example burglary case}}.
No, it has nothing to do with shaped charges; they are using missiles that explode on top of the tanks. Most armor of the tank is frontal arc, some on the sides, top armor is minimal, just a few centimeters, so it can be easily penetrated by explosions of these missiles or by aircraft cannon fire from platforms like A-10.
Can you share the algorithm, or anything computationally equivalent, for people to try benchmarking different implementations?
I see; and I pretty much completely agree. It is indeed a shame that we allow citizens to bear the cost of education personally, and that it even has to be a choice or justified as investment. You’re right that the cost acts as a pre-filter for income just to get in, and that the university system has flaws and is inefficient. I like the way you summarized it at the end and aspire to stay clear-eyed and oriented towards incremental improvement. Thanks for clarifying!
> there's plenty in Europe

Is that actually true? I would expect formula to be the kind of thing that has a very consistent demand profile, and there wouldn't be a lot of surge capacity in the European manufacturing plants.
> "Wow, you're really stingy with the sugar in your coffee."

> Except I wasn't. I was actually indulging myself, like two tablespoons.

Is that correct? 2tbsp? 30ml? That's beyond indulgent. Sugar in hot drinks is typically measured in teaspoons, where two is a lot. And that's a third as much as yours; his I dread to think.

I don't say it to be condescending, but I am sceptical that sugared coffee drinkers have ever tried half-decent coffee (without instinctively adding/thinking they need to add sugar to it) anyway.
"What makes me a good Demoman? Well if I were a bad Demoman, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you, now would I?"

One of the silliest, hilarious but on point thing I've ever heard uttered from a video game character
Widely used for anxiety in my country as well but not an optimal choice due to the cardiovascular effects. As you noted, it can cause fatigue.
Interesting - I think I must have just missed them, too bad because they sound cool.
*that should say not the right metric to focus on...
Is that what they are using for the acceleration charge (not the main charge!)?
Not sure why you'd use drones rather than just tiny remote controlled model airplanes.
What does this actually imply?
I don't understand what the two have to do with each other.

You say there's already a monopoly but if we'd bought a stockpile from the monopoly at market prices, we'd... still have a stockpile.
But they will state a reason for doing so. The "incentive to verify" was there. Ofc it doesn't change that it is an evil corp that (if at all possible) you shouldn't get involved with.
Here is a very specific counter example I heard recently: a woman contestant in one of those weight loss shows, overweight all her life, all her life on yo yo diets, doctors told her to lose weight if she wants kids since her hormons were messed up. Lost 200lbs in one year by dieting and exercising 6 hours a day, felt miserable, lost her period completely, doctors told her her body is behaving as if she was anorexic so she still could not get kids and of course unless she continued dieting kept gaining weight. So the images of people looking like concentration camp survivors does not mean much - in this one case the person finally looked normal, but her body did not work normal anymore.

If anybody is interested: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacqui-mccoy/id1440334...
> I tell everyone to never take benzos for any reasons. I don't care how safe the doctors say they are; they aren't. Period.

Do you ever wonder if maybe something about your situation might be different from most other people prescribed benzos? For example, the concurrent phenibut use.
There are a few other variables that could play a role.

(1) Share of physical labor jobs vs office jobs

(2) Increased hormone and pesticide use in agriculture (dropping worldwide sperm counts is an underreported story, might or might not be related)

(2A) Less nutritional content in food - has gone down 60% since 1940s according to some studies; likely from over-farming. Need to eat more to get the same nutrients.

(3) Food deserts (related to (1)) - where healthy food options are rare

(4) Less general socialization (internet makes it less necessary to go outside, etc)
Sorry, HN's title rewriter made a mistake there. Thanks for fixing.
It makes sense from a national defense perspective to have reasonable stockpiles of essential goods.
Another contemporary parody I remember is from the comic Bloom County.

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2009/07/27/

(Don’t be fooled by the url date, that’s just the date gocomics reran it)
Good! There are some things that just need to go away. Cassette tapes, Zunes, Geo Metros, etc.
The design is responsible for the catastrofic explosions that blow the turret off the tanks, not for the tank being penetrated. The penetration is achieved by making the missiles explode on top of the tank, defeating the thinnest armor versus frontal armor that has 60-100 cm equivalent in RHA steel (they are composite, so thickness is different).
The only other AR "musical" tool I know is "here hear": https://apps.apple.com/us/app/here-hear/id1249413969?ls=1
The nav circles are a bit misleading. I'm clicking on them, and nothing happens. Otherwise, the design is very nice!
Everyone has a different baseline. You haven't seen how much more frequently underlings get force choked before it got installed.
It is just saying it is so stable and safe, it can be transported on a plane.
There do exist some arguments for this, eg overweight parents with overweight kids, but obviously there isn’t some kind of ‘working class gene’ even though children are reasonably likely to have the same social class as their parents, and wealthier countries may have, on average, taller citizens even though height is strongly heritable. But one would certainly still expect genetic variation in eg thyroid function or whatever.

A few simple observations which don’t support the relevance of this genetic determinism argument:

- a few hundred years ago very few people were overweight. But maybe many people lived their lives incredibly hungry the whole time.

- wealthy countries where getting sufficient food is not the issue have variation in population-level statistics for obesity. Even if one claims that these countries are on-average different genetically in some ways (unlikely in the sense that genetic variation between large classes tends to be smaller than the variation within), one would expect America to mostly be a mix of old-world statistics whereas they come out exceptionally instead.

It seems to me that cultural expectations around food and weight will have a big difference and variation between countries, and that the kinds of food available and commonly consumed (eg sugary drinks, unhealthy fast food, etc) may be a big influence.

But none of this would mean that a particular individual is or is not overweight because of genetic factors rather than their environment.
they certainly did a great job! Things like the rain overlays for the polish performance were pretty stunning, and it made me wonder how stuff like this is done.
Huh, thanks for mentioning this! I always thought it was just water with enough pressure.

It looks like pressure cutting with pure water exists but it is limited to softer materials. This page [0] has a fair bit of detail on it all.

[0] https://www.machinemfg.com/waterjet-cutting-guide/#Classific...
Classic comeback! Sometimes I’m stubborn too though, I get it.
My advice: Don't underestimate the substance, but also don't give too much importance to stories of people that overdid it and had a terrible time. People have been using Phenibut for long periods of time without getting dependent -- provided they space out the "Phenibut days" enough. Of course that requires some self-knowledge: If you are the kind of person who would have trouble keeping it to "not more than twice a week maximum (ideally not more than once a week) at reasonable dosages", then Phenibut can easily turn into a slippery slope to physical dependence, with horrible withdrawals.

If you know yourself enough not to overdo it, it's not _that_ terrible a thing; though your individual response to it will of course vary, which is where the "self-knowledge" comes in again.
Similarly, I've heard of people giving up sugary colas that they used to drink multiple times per day at work and losing scads of weight while making no other changes.
I had those exact symptoms from not eating sufficients amounts of salt combined with not drinking enough water. Now I aim for 7 grams of table salt per day. Low sodium symptoms are indistinguishable from "feeling like you are dying."
I helped someone build the Menger Sponge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge)

Super Fun!
Because you have no self control a substance should be banned.

Cool world that would be to live in.
Not only Russia. This is standard in most of South America and more developed parts of Africa as well.

I guess only copyright holding countries like to abide to these treaties. Particularly European countries. Some have anacronic copyright laws.