skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study of falling sperm counts finds 'alarming' levels of chemicals in male urine
This is true maybe for big, traditional German corporations like Siemens or VW; but have absolutely not the case for any of the start-ups or any of the big tech companies from US.

And especially not true after 2020, when so many more companies are willing to hire people remotely, often for close-to-US-levels of pay.
Same exact experience. I recently tried my hand at rewriting one of my old Java Android projects in Kotlin. Maybe it's just my brain getting older, but I found Kotlin development experience to be far less enjoyable than I was anticipating based on all the high praise.

Don't get me wrong, Kotlin has some nice language improvements, but overall I found it to be more confusing than helpful. A weirdly confusing co-routine implementation, new unintuitive syntax, lots of new keywords, etc.

I dunno. I'm sure it's a fine language if that's what you're starting with, but as a former Java dev that was actually productive, Kotlin was anything but a breath of fresh air.
Hate to defend RyanAir, but I prefer unprofessional to corporate doublespeak.
a backend added

That's a huge change which allows for things like turning XSS into RCEs. It's a bit like 'why can't you make your own street legal sports car by removing the rear spoiler and replacing it with a jet engine'.
I run what I would consider a pretty heavy Plasma desktop, with latte dock, all the fancy compositing effects, and a few other additions. On top of that, I'm running several Electron apps, one Windows app in Wine, and Firefox with several tabs right now. My memory usage is 3.5GB.
Closest paper I could find is https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7850, but it made no mentions to amino acids in the main text or the supplement.
Wait, who's this one man that didn't die in the show?

The alt history takes the, unlikely due to inferior technology, path that the last ditch Soviet launch right before Apollo 11 (a launch that did in fact happen, but failed), succeeded. The show seems to make it clear that this was influenced largely by luck as the Soviets had not done any sort of "dress rehearsals" to the moon like NASA had.
> Gnome's Wayland implementation is much better then KDE at this moment

Agreed, with a caveat— Gnome's Mutter compositor for Wayland has bugs. It does not support server side rendered window decorations while KDE does. This means that the title bars for Alacritty[0] terminal emulator and the mpv[1] video player are ugly and not so functional. This is an intentional decision by the GNOME team[2]. Also the screen locks while watching videos on mpv because Mutter does not support the idle-inhibit protocol, although work is currently being done on this[3].

[0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5956

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7186

[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217

[3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/111
I have also used Firefox for a similar time and although I can't say it has never crashed for me, it has at least proven to be a bit more stable than my experience with Chrome.
I find it hilarious, given what we know about top teams at top corporations being extremely competitive: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/vbh2vx/d_a...

Really puts things into perspective.
There's a much more obvious resolution to this problem that applies to the economy writ large.
It's true that Rust is not for everyone. But if you are average+ programmer you should be able to learn it.
> I spent $X on lottery tickets and missed out on having $X more in an investment that did well or having the free cash to sign up for Y class where more "luck" happens.

Except the lottery is so cheap that there isn't really a competition for the couple of bucks it costs. Like, you take that $2 and put it into the market. Maybe it turns into $10, and you buy yourself lunch.
I also got a few of the Airthings View Plus boxes, one for each floor of the house and one in the bedroom specifically. Learned some very interesting things, such as that when the A/C comes on at night, the VOCs and CO2 spikes so we were able to address this properly. As an SRE style person, the idea was that without observability into the current state, we didn't really know where the problems were or what we should do to fix them (though perhaps the solution is always just "buy an air purifier").
No you included the GC part too:

> FYI: If you're primarily IO-heavy, the GC pauses aren't going to be a big deal.

To further my point: .NET and Java are amazing when it comes to performance for most cases. You get a mature ecosystem, large developer pool, fast runtime and all the comfort that GC offers.

I'd argue that choosing Rust for most startups is outright irresponsible.
In my first job, the company laid off 200 people, and they found out when they couldn't use their badge to enter the building. Corporations love to do that type of things.
These are qualitative statements and there cannot ever be a definite answer. I don't think there is scientific consensus at all and that we are currently analyzing effects of certain measures. That can take years. I certainly do have the impression that "science" tried to consolidate opinion and not by scientific means at all. Of course most doctors will tend to err on the side of caution especially if they don't have information about a new form of viral threat.

The degree of efficiency of mask might be in question but it certainly is not zero. That is exceedingly unlikely. But I am not sure the author makes that statement. Ultimately they were ineffective to control the spread. Fair point, but the primary goal was to delay infections to not crash health systems which might or might not have been a sensible choice.

> The draconian measures

This is already a fairly unscientific statement in any case and there certainly is a lot of room to criticise the author.

> with no useful information

Here I disagree. Any form of opposition is valuable because we had a far too much consolidated "official opinions" and some of it has been proven wrong later. No harm done with someone swimming in the other direction. On the contrary.

And I think there was a lot of precedent to fast track vaccines and side effects were neglected. It didn't hit too many people but it did affect people.
Replacement for C in many areas it is used for != replacement for C in all areas it is used for
I would agree, but encryption (let alone end-to-end) is totally absent from specs like https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/. The word isn't even mentioned once.

I don't just want federation, I want to know that my/friend/family's information (or at least private messages) is private because I know they won't "self host".
I'm reading this pretty differently from you, I think. In my view, it looks like until 2013, car deaths were dropping dramatically, and have mostly been bouncing around a steady state since. Whereas deaths were dropping slightly until 2013, and have increased significantly in the years since that. The 2020 car deaths value is close to the 2013-2020 average, but the 2020 (and 2019, and 2018, and 2017) gun deaths are higher than the 2013-2020 average.
You are right, most people on the far left (i'd say two third of them, maybe it changed in the last ten years) would say that participating in elections is supporting the institutions and the dominant class.

But right now radical left == far left for most. Worse, right now in France, a lot of people really think the reformist left is the far left, and the rest believe they are radicals. Saner, but still wrong. This is mindblowing, but i am not a professional historian or political scientist so it doesn't really matter to me, i won't loose any sleep. It just says a lot about how low our political culture fell. They aren't even anticapitalists nor they push for worker ownership. And i've read today that the overton window was pushed to the left?

One thing still that can explain this: it seems that the 19th century history lessons were erased from our western memories. And even the years between WW1 and WW2 are not that clear for western europeans.
I was happy with KDE 3.5 back in the before times. Then KDE 4 happened.

I'm glad we are back in a good place with KDE 5, but it felt like it took way too long.
Odd to not see any mention of vfork. vfork solves the problems with fork/exec for large programs.
And the acreage dedicated to golf courses at the current time prevent that?
It included glutamic acid so all we need to do is refine it to the salt version and bam, space msg
Any language that calls themselves systems programming language, on Windows, must have first class support for COM and WinRT, in their various workloads.

Rust support for them is pretty much WIP.

And then there is the whole matter that Windows shops love to ship binary libraries.
You can look at the recent attempt of the European Super League to supplant the Champions League to show that's not necessarily the case.

Plus, lots of leagues launch - the players are there. In recent memory, there was the XFL (3 times!), AAF, USFL, etc. and they were all able to field teams. But then if they fold, it is because of money. Sports usually gets most of their money from TV rights fees. It's a little of an chicken and an egg problem around stations only wanting to pay big bucks for content that draws ratings, people who will only tune in to watch sports stars and leagues who need TV money to afford to pay stars. If no one is making money, then what's the point?

The LIV tour went after people with name value right away & their goal is not necessarily to make money (right now).
I retired a bit early and I have found it immensely rewarding to take classes in various hard technical subjects. Some of these are directly applicable to jobs I could do, or have done. I think tech employers should be more supportive of life long learning. I get dinged by recruiters constantly because my resume is great but I'd rather do this, TBH. I have worked in FAANG btw. Retired at principal level.
I've usually (in the UK) had 1 month's notice upon quitting and spent it doing documentation updates and handover meetings. I managed to use pretty much the entire time productively - though admittedly one could make a good argument that that was because I hadn't been making time to document things better previously.

I've known quite a few senior developers with a 3 months' notice period baked into their contract.
You could just smash the asteroids into the ground w/o parachutes, saves money on the pulverization steps. Same day shipping.
Saw it yesterday and as someone already mentioned in the comments, it's crazy to think the Game Boy Advance only lasted 3yrs before it got replaced with the Nintendo DS. This demo blows my mind, and even after watching the video on it I still can't fathom it.
They cooked a sample of Ryuguu and drove off about 15% of its mass, mostly in the form of H2O and CO2. That is, Ryuguu is wetter and more carbon rich than the earth.

Iron, Silicon and Aluminum are there in abundance. (Gerard K. O'Neill and many science fiction writers have gotten wrong the idea that you need M-type asteroids to get iron.) Astronauts found high quality hematite ore on the moon.

If you wanted to make large solar sails (say to be a sunshade the Earth-Sun L1 point) you would probably de-volatilize materials by using heat and possibly oxygen. It would be ideal to convert hydrocarbons to carbon monoxide so you can do C1 chemistry to make plastics. You have waste CO2 no matter what (it offgases from carbonates and other chemistry) so you will need the same kind of chemistry people are talking about for capturing CO2 and using it as a chemical feedstock.

The "metal line" and "stone lines" would reduce the devolatized rock to produce silicon solar cells, electric connections, mirrors, etc. You will make storage tanks from iron, the devolatilization process could be a little awkward because you will need storage tanks to put the gate.

The one resource I'm not sure about is nitrogen, which is important for making chemistry work. (Say you want to make a sail out of Kapton instead of Polyethylene.)
If the future popularity of the fediverse depends on a killer app instead of the various benefits of federation then it's doomed. As soon as such a killer app appears, a non-federated competitor could copy the idea and out-compete the fediverse version because it is not hamstrung by having to stick to the (inherently slow-moving) fediverse standards.

A similar thing happened to IRC, which _still_ lacks heavily used features that other chat apps like discord and slack have had for years and years. Simlarly, end-to-end encryption for emails is unlikely to ever become a thing despite the privacy advantages.
You have a point, but there's not using doublespeak and then there's just being an abrasive asshole. O'Leary is the latter.
Average construction worker, bartender & hotel worker don't have a Bsc/Msc.
To be fair, I've only lived in the UK for just over a decade. That being said, I do remember BNP and the EDL. Whilst there's an intersection between EDL/BNP and present-day Brexit (i.e. Conservative party) supporters, I wouldn't say the government represents the views held by the former. In fact, groups like the BNP advocated for compulsory deportation of non-whites (during Tyndall) and later pivoted to a modern version of politely asking us to leave[1]. Whilst Windrush was comparable, I don't think it is to the scale of what a BNP majority would've ever looked like. Regarding the GFA, I'm obviously lacking context and perspective, but I see it more as an oversight and bad leadership than an intentional break away from it, but with the current government I never know what to think.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/20/bnp-members... "...firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home".
Thank you for that! Was disabled (so very light grey) because "Use Theme border size" was selected, so I never noticed the whole thing.

I say again, though: Defaults matter!
Wow unfair, is it because you work for the public sector that the salary is mediocre? It is not a bad wage but indeed sounds like the salary should be 50% higher.
We're all just stardust, with much of it in our colon.
In cases when I have a working visual debugger, I agree, it's fun. Without one, it's not fun.
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1781.pdf
What do you see about twtxt that seems similar to you?

Logseq doesn't have "posts" as such, nor is there a protocol here for sharing. There's nothing graph related in twtxt. It also doesn't integrate with the personal knowledgebase people are already using. I'm not sure why twtxt would come to mind as similar.
I Learned Teeline Shorthand (2021)
Very impressive video; second half of the video gives some great detail on specific optimization techniques in play.
...as opposed to 'nested tuplets'?
/fz
This feature protects domains, not sessions. SSO relies on passing tokens over redirects, not cookies. As long as your redirected, the SSO uses their own first party cookies. You would be logged in to the SSO provider no matter who redirected you there.
Phases of Database Growth and Cost
I don't mind criticism. I've been chewed out before. I refuse to work overtime and if push comes to shove I'll find a new job.

Why would I do it? Bit of a rebel I guess.
You do need to increase costs though.
The solution still seems to be to:

1. Use Firefox, block .js by default, and selectively allow.

2. Set browser to block cross-site cookies, and to purge all cookies when closing browser.

3. Avoid tabbed browsing, and restart browser after using a website.

I've been doing this since about 2006. It's inconvenient, but gives some peace of mind.
"Parking illegally" is a bit of a mild description for what was effectively blockading the entire downtown business area for several weeks, harassing local businesses about their masking laws, driving through residential neighbourhoods with big trucks and horns blaring, and openly talking (in signs and speeches) about overthrowing an elected government. That and closing international border crossings? And at one of the crossings being armed?

As controversial as they were, vaccine mandates were popular with the majority of Canadians and were part of the previous year's election campaign. The same government got in trouble earlier with the public (and official opposition) for not being strict enough at the border about COVID.

At that point many I know were personally ready to see said vaccine mandates dropped. But most were also completely unwilling to let it be because a bunch of authoritarian right wing dickheads demanded it

And the border things and vaccine mandates the truckers were complaining about were not even under the direct control of the Canadian govenrment but required by agreement with the US gov't.

Note that the same "truckers" did not attempt such an occupation in the US, where the same mandate was put in place and required? Why? Because your Homeland Security would have swept them out and arrested them and tossed them in jail far quicker than ours did. They occupied the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, not the US. Because same reason.
A CLI tool to analyze your any TCP connections, like gRPC, Redis, MySQL
I was a heavy KDE user until 4 came out. After a massive amount of issues with it (Plasma crashes every few minutes on multiple devices with different hardware), I abandoned KDE and tried it from time to time after seeing comments like yours (roughly once a year or so). I don't know how well it works these days (no desire to spend any more time on trying it out), but IME it worked about as badly as the first 4.x releases until at least whatever version was the latest at the beginning of 2021. It's the same story every time — I install it, login into my desktop, start doing stuff, and get crashes at least once an hour (on wildly different hardware, on many releases ten years in a row). Nepomuk crashes, Plasma crashes, kio daemon (or whatever it was called) crashes, this thing and that.

I found happiness in xfce4 (that beauty hasn't crashed even once in about 8 years of using it heavily), and then sway (same story, currently at two years).
> A total of 23 types of amino acids were found in asteroid samples brought back by Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe, according to new studies published in the journal Science and elsewhere, shedding further light on the origins of life on Earth.

This intersects with a raging debate in Origins of Life research. The Miller-Urey experiment demonstrated the production of amino acids from simple gasses thought the be present in the early Earth atmosphere and energy.

The problem is that you can add amino acids into a flask, stir, and not much will happen. You can pump in all the energy you want and all you'll get it tar. Before you can even start to make proteins, which is what makes life, you need enzymes. The trouble with enzymes is that they're, well, proteins.

So how do you get the proteins that make proteins in the first place?

One line of investigation says that you don't. What happens instead are stepping-stone chemical processes that turn energy from the environment into self-reinforcing cycles that build complex molecules. Over time chemical evolution takes place to produce self-reinforcing systems that make something that's very close to amino acids and/or proteins. We don't know what these processes are, but we can deduce their necessity given the above conundrum. Chemical evolution is a process we observe on the macro scale when, for example, viruses evade vaccine defenses.

In other words, finding amino acids just says that the processes that produce amino acids are ubiquitous. This is hardly surprising given the molecular simplicity at play. There's just a handful of atoms and they pop together following well-understood rules. The paths to making amino acids from simpler inputs is short, well-defined, and not entropically disfavored. It can (and does) occur abiotically.

Finding enzymes or other complex proteins above statistical background levels on the other hand would be different. That would be a world-changing find because it would be strong evidence of previous life. Even more, you'd be hard-pressed to find any other explanation.

But it's not just proteins. Any sufficiently complex molecule found above expected statistical levels due to random reactions would be strong evidence supporting previous life.

As an aside, finding enantiomerically-enriched amino acids would also be an important finding for similar reasons. The article doesn't discuss this, though.

For a high-level overview of what all of this about, check out Lex Fiedman's interview with Lee Cronin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM
You sound like a standard new CS grad. You have a smattering of experience with a bunch of technologies, you've interned, and unlike many, you seem to have a good grasp that you don't know everything. Maybe you're not going to be that fabled, leet 10x developer everyone thinks they want to be or thinks they need to hire. My advice? Avoid companies thinking everyone they hire needs to be a leet developers. My experience has been most of the people running those kinds of companies are incapable of finding their rear ends with both hands.

So what if you're an average developer? Average developers are still making a good living. Here's the thing - you want to get better! That already makes you better than 90% of the average developers I've ever worked with! I'm not even joking. Don't be too hard on yourself. Get a job in the field, and grow. With your attitude I bet in five year's time you'll be awesome!

So just get out there and start working toward awesome!
Association between ADHD medication and depression: A 10-year follow-up
Time to market is important if you have an idea that replicates existing solutions. Or is easy to replicate by others.
Thanks. In case anyone is interested, I looked around a bit more and found these descriptions of Safari's (Webkit) intelligent tracking prevention starting from 2017 (in reverse chronological order):

Safari Tracking Prevention background:

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#intelligent-tracking...

Blog posts about tracking prevention updates:

https://webkit.org/blog/11545/updates-to-the-storage-access-...

https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...

https://webkit.org/blog/9521/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

https://webkit.org/blog/8613/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

https://webkit.org/blog/8142/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

Here is their tracking prevention policy definition:

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/
Krunner is my friend! ;) Between Krunner and a few custom hot-keys I seldom use a conventional app launcher any more...
Isn't vfork much worse in terms of the problem the author is talking about, since the child can now acquire locks in the _parent's_ address space?
At my old place they just overestimated my tasks complexity by 200-300%. I wasnt going to be the one saying no... So i had plenty of time to fix whatever.
Domain names are primarily useful because of the global consensus about how to resolve a name.

Building, and maybe even running an alternative root is simple from a technical basis, but without global consensus, it's not very useful. Alternic was around for many years and didn't get anywhere near enough adoption to be useful.

If the concern is cost, some TLDs offer domains for much lower cost, some even free. There are many domain owners that offer subdomains for free too. If you have a domain for $10/year and let 1000 people have a subdomain, it's not worth billing them, etc. There's certainly a discussion available about the costs being unjustifyably high, but they're not that high in absolute terms, and lower prices would seem to encourage more hoarding.