skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone I had a beer with in a conference ~4y ago messaged me asking if I was looking for a new position, did the interview panel and here I am
> DDT causes significant health problems for humans, including infertility, birth defects, cancer, and brain damage to children.

Source even one of these claims. Human exposure to DDT is a suspected carcinogen but has never been conclusively linked. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/ddtgen.pdf

I would argue that it was good business in wealthy countries to eliminate DDT as it was off-patent. This coupled with it being being highly persistent made it cheap to use on mosquito nets and screens. The successors that entered the market after DDT was banned (chiefly neonicotinoids) have caused new problems like honeybee colony collapse.
> Perhaps the Amish would do well.

I live in central Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County - there's an Amish farm walking distance from where I sit.

I think about societal collapse a lot, and was just recently ruminating on how the Amish would do in that scenario.

They're clearly more prepared for it than most of us, but they're a bit more dependent on the outside world (or "the English", as they refer to us) than you might expect.

It's pretty common to see buggies parked at farm and tractor supply shops around here, and you'll even see them in the local ERs. When they sell stuff at farmer's markets I've seen a lot of plastic wrap, plastic containers, plastic bags, and aluminum foil. Some even have cars, depending on the sect.

All that said, they do live much simpler, lower-tech lives, with plenty of ingenious manually-powered tools (I once saw a mule-powered lawn mower in action while driving past a farm).

I expect they'd have some bumps adjusting, but that they'd mostly be able to, unlike the rest of us.
How are they making fun of web3 when everything about the project aligns exactly with every other web3 project? Is there a page highlighting the difference between this project and web3?
Given the disclosure timeline, it’s very likely.
Yes. Competitoon with other banks and other lenders. The market is your protection.

Just like one oil company could triple the gas price if they want. Doesn’t mean people will keep getting their gaz there however.
It's certainly sustainable, but a three-generation nuclear family will need two or three farmable ("arable") acres to prosper. Expect the population to diminish substantially.

What is not sustainable is high technology, which likely can't be quickly restored, once it crashes. It might take a couple of centuries to put all the systems back in place, if the crash is deep enough.
Parent post is probably referring more to energy resources. Gas and diesel degrade fairly quickly and unless you live in the middle east, aren't just flowing out of the ground anymore. Solar + BEVs might be an option, but only if the apocalypse scenario didn't involve an EMP, otherwise you better know your way around diesel engines and making biodiesel + live close to a hydroelectric plant.
I suspect we're looking at Apple implementing tick/tock, whether because they're forced to or because they want to - they've already been doing something similar on the iPhones, and supply constraint may make them do it on the chips, too.

Few people are going to upgrade from the M1 to the M2 anyway, so it makes sense to keep powder dry for the M3.
This is what I found worrysome actually, most people are just worrying about fiction stuff, and not actually taking a look at the actual technology we are currently, actually running right now. The "takeover" fantasies looks like something fully extracted from the most basic psychology / sociollogy of the standard human being, always looking for the greater self-agency possible, in order to potencially maximize the chances of survival.

But the AI tech we already have doesn't have to work like that.

Like what happened to nuclear weapons, they were created with the standard idea of just throwing the bigger bomb possible to the enemy. Yet, we end understanding that nukes are most effective because we cannot use them, ever.

The current AI tech surely, can be deployed at "Skynet" mode if there's some rogue people out there, looking for a hostile system to exist and do harm. There's no - antropological - reason for ("Skynet threatened by fearing humans") , needed at all, the thing can just be trained to do bad things. Just attach to it a couple of Stuxnet things, give it some self-agency (no moral limits mostly), resources and Internet access, then sit back to watch the chaos.

But there's more.. the current AI technology could just go wrong in so many ways that are more or less absent from many online comments.

I recommend to take a look at the video / text from it from Charles Stross, talking about "organizational AI" we already have in place and working since even before we knew we would run computers one day.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them
There's actually minimal risk to the bank; 30-year fixed mortgages are guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie, who are guaranteed by the US government. If a borrower defaults, the US government makes the bank whole again. Banks do pay for the privilege, but it's pretty much always worth it to them.
> The bleeding hasn’t stopped in recent years as Apple’s work culture simply isn’t the best and other firms, namely the hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, are paying more than Apple was to poach talent.

I really hate that word “poach”. Using “attract” works much better in that sentence.

I find it appalling how entering into a free contract with someone to give them more money for their work is called “poaching”.

Words matter, and how we describe something has an impact in how it is viewed (“piracy” is another example).
PAC is a good mitigation with a good threat model: preventing ROP/JOP.
Mac-using devs will file tickets that CI/CD is not working, and don't know how to configure their system to use GNU coreutils.

They all just use VS Code or Jetbrains and that's about it, so hell if I know why they need a $3000 machine to run shell commands they don't understand on.

I desperately wish one of the big boys would push enterprise Linux dev machines hard.
We need IIM owned Business Publishing
Sure but mustard kills you dead real quick. And is slowly leaking even decades later. It hasn’t gone away.
The youngest, strongest RTL engineer I know jumped from Apple to Rivos.
Tesla files for 3-for-1 stock split, Ellison to step down from company board
Payments don't generate enough revenue to pay for that R&D.
Ask HN: What's the state of high level containerization?
Right now, containerization is powered by kernel features. This requires virtualization on non Linux machines and is a bit cumbersome as a result.

I have been hearing stories of the concept of "high level containerization" which promises OS-agnostic container functionality through application-level abstraction.

Some have cited "web assembly" as offering that capacity, I have heard Deno describing intent to provide such capabilities.

Are there any projects out there today that can be used for this purpose?
I think the point is that there should be multiple tools, each with its own UX that's specifically tailored towards one particular scenario that OpenSSL covers, and with customizable options that are relevant to that scenario.
Clear every app from your homescreen
I wonder how many taxpayers are claiming the mortgage interest deduction nowadays after the rise in standard deduction.
Bing gets porn domain to filter out explicit images and videos
"IE was so hackable"

For every meaning of that word, yes.
What kind of word macros?

I've often thought that there's more value in extending office apps than is taken advantage of. It's an interesting case where it's difficult to make an extension that can do "anything", but relatively simple to make an extension that can do one simple task really, really well.
Seems like quibbling over words that everybody understands the meaning and intention of
and Adobe :/
It looks like mariusor gave you a statement, with no direct connection to a real group of people, that is almost tautologically true.

> Supporting the persecution of a group of people because of their ethnicity (or whichever other criteria) is such a thing. Please tell me how I'm wrong about that.

To reword a little bit, it is immoral to persecute(or support the act) a group for arbitrary and trivial detail(s).

So if you agree with that then you and mariusor would have some common ground and could build from there.
It's rather frustrating that the same gene conferring DDT resistance also confers it to commonly used pyrethroid pesticides: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...

We need better targeted control methods. It's my fear that the same people that fought pesticide control will also fight genetically modified control methods.
Just wanna say that this is a great article. The author's love of computer hardware shines through very clearly. Great work!
From the fiction side, Walter Miller's 1959 _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ [1] was written from the perspective of Benedictine Monks preserving knowledge - without truly understanding it - post apocalypse.

In _Earth Abides_[2] by George R. Stewart, the protagonist eventually gives up on his attempt to provide for the future, eventually deciding that the best he can do for his clan is to teach them to fend for themselves instead of foraging in the rubble.

That conclusion always reminded me of one of the conclusions of the WIPP report[3]: we may not be able to communicate with the future, so hopefully if nothing else, they'll learn to avoid the contaminated area through attrition....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

[3, (big pdf!)]: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1279277/m2/...
The environmental impact of the average NYC resident is among the lowest in the US.

And with respect to density, produce for NYC was grown within sight of Manhattan as late as 1960. The impact of the belt of suburbia from Richmond, VA to New Hampshire is far more harmful that the cities.
> because just about no browser today does anything nicer than wall of XML

The browser doesn't, but you can use an XSLT stylesheet like this to make it look a little bit nicer:
https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/feed.xml

An XSLT stylesheet allows formatting XML content as HTML/CSS.
Of course, I haven't solved linking people to feed readers (maybe just feedly), but it could be done with this.

Source code: https://github.com/karmanyaahm/karmanyaahm.github.io/blob/d6...
I think the general consensus is that Web 2.0 was the shift from personal content and sites to consolidation of content onto social media, SaaS and content aggregators, but that may be just an abstraction over a shift from a synchronous, mostly static web to an asynchronous, mostly dynamic web.
They may even have a copy of your JPEG! Now you are really screwed...
Ops, yeah, that should be 6.48.

The difference lies in electricity price.
Ask HN: How to know CPU model and family rendered to word / codename by GCC
How do we know the CPU model & family rendered to more friendly word codename, ie. not just by numbers, by GCC or other as well tool
Is the microsoft press site actually decent? Is there anywhere else y'all would recommend picking this up from? Seems like Amazon doesn't offer a combination ebook+physical the way the microsoft site does.
Sounds unfalsifiable
These were largely upsell emails to existing AT&T customers, and I was a designer/developer for a marketing agency, so I barely had anything to do with the sending. Think like the largest of the large; audiences in the millions.

So, no replies, but my grandmother got one of the emails my agency designed! That one made me feel queasy.

Apologies if what I said was misleading. That agency laid me and over a hundred coworkers off; hence no qualms about divulging our primary customer.
You don't really need an epic takedown of it to notice it's not how she herself got there. Which is, basically, make friends with famous people (Larry Summers) so they give you unreasonably high profile entry-level jobs.
https://youtu.be/-bCkha6U70o?t=787
There is a lot of pruning that occurs, evolutionarily speaking,
and a lot of what was thought to be "useless" genome has been discovered to be conserved over generations, and that there is use for that part of the genome.
Thank you. I'm deliberately going to be readonly (and most likely only filenames unless the user requests contents) When I'm walking around the filesystem.

Thank you for the info.
Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer
My biggest pet peeve is optional runtime permissions that are not optional.

I have a CO2 monitor that you read through an android app. It cost like $250. If you don't give it geolocation permission, it just says "this app needs geolocation permission" and shows you a button to go to your settings to enable it. Any time you disable geolocation, you get that message and button again.

I have yet to find any geolocation functionality in the app.

EDIT: Please see epukaza's comment below. There is a legitimate reason for this permission, which his comment explains.
I recommend the r/AppleSwap or r/HardwareSwap subreddit.
Thank you!

Fargate is more of a maybe for us as it doesn't seem to offer a ton of advantages over EC2. It still takes about 30 seconds to launch a Fargate job, and as far as I can tell there's no way to "keep an instance around". With Meadowrun-on-EC2 or Lambda, when you run two jobs run one after another with the same libraries and the same code (or even slightly different code), there's almost 0 overhead for running the second job. So Fargate is only slightly better for a cold start (30s compared to 45-60s for an EC2 instance in my experience), and significantly worse for a warm start (still 30s). And that's the core experience we're trying to make amazing--run some code, look at the results/data, tweak it, run it again, repeat.

Meadowrun is taking care of all the messy details of provisioning and managing the EC2 instances, so Meadowrun-on-Fargate won't be any easier to use than Meadowrun-on-EC2, and I don't see a ton of advantages to make up for the inability to get a warm start on Fargate. That said, AWS is super dynamic, so we're definitely keeping an eye on Fargate.
As someone with very little coding experience (learned HTML and CSS like a decade ago, I am not a coder by any definition), is this book too advanced/technical for me? Sounds kind of conceptual/birds eye view and interesting.
Early reviews said that even the base 8GB RAM models were snappy, despite the small amount of RAM. I went in believing that, but turns out it was anything but. Maybe it was my specific usage (Firefox with tons of tabs, Electron apps open all the time) but it feels much more sluggish than my previous 2013 iMac. Next one I get is definitely going to have 16GB minimum, maybe 24GB.
though I find such in-your-face display of wealth crude and unbecoming I do appreciate this as an expression of individuality and not bowing to pure property valuation market forces we seem to be driven by here in California suburbs. I'll take this over HOA mandated uniformity anyday.
Where do you get your epoxy? I hate the 24 hour stuff.
Exploit DB etc, already exist. They're used for penetration tests as well, to simulate a real attacker, better to have something that you can work off of as a model to detect then let the attacks be the secrets of criminal organizations and state actors.

You train like you fight, you can't do research and build detections if you don't have some examples.
It’s notoriously cryptic, undercommented, and heavy on idiosyncracies, particularly the macros.

Nevertheless you can learn a lot from deciphering djb’s source, particularly with regards to defensive programming, so don’t be afraid to dive in. Just recognise it wasn’t necessarily engineered for ease of collaboration. Once you get a feel for the internal structures you may be surprised how clearly you can reason about it.

Perhaps it’s a matter of taste but I always preferred working on Wietse Venema and Timo Sirainen’s code.
We had already eliminated Docker from our CI/CD and live deployments (using Kaniko for CI/CD and containerd for live), so we just modified our container build pipeline to run Kaniko twice (once for x86_64 and once for arm64) and then use manifest-tool to build and upload the multi-arch container manifest. I think we had it working within a day, and then it took a week or so to test and validate all our images, and one or two needed some attention due to having dependencies that weren't already multi-arch. Overall it was really painless.

For testing container builds on developer machines most people are either using Docker on macOS which already handles multi-arch cleanly, or using buildah on Linux which also handles multi-arch automatically if you set up qemu binfmt support. So that has been pretty painless too.

I would say if you are doing a lot of horrible workarounds, it's probably time to step back and look at improving the processes (like your pipelines).
Message passing is oversold in many environments that aren’t Erlang but I think it’s safe to say they’re the original, gold standard.
How is this different from dall-e mini on huggingface?
The idea that reduced pesticide use creating more deaths due to malaria was not debunked....

The idea that Carson wanted a complete pesticide ban and that Silent Spring was the main cause of the reduced use may have been debunked. And certainly biased organizations blamed her.

Heck, the "Silent spring killed more people than Hitler" quote comes from Michael Crichton in 2004, your timeline seems ridiculously misleading to me, despite there being some truth to your statements
Yea I think your read on the intent here is correct. I re-read that part five times wondering what I wasn't getting.
Makes me think of Korean chopsticks. They're all stainless steel. At first you think, "that's weird, they're supposed to be wooden." Then you realize stainless steel makes much more sense. More hygenic, reusable, durable, looks nice. I like the aesthetics of wooden chopsticks, but they aren't as practical as metal. Can't say I like the aesthetics of a rusty chain-link fence; I'd rather go with the stainless.

This also reminds me of how after WW2 we seem to have forgotten how to make things look nice. Older architecture often had ornate detailing. Even traditional houses and clothing had details to accentuate its visual appeal. But look at houses rising up in cities lately and they look like giant Ikea filing cabinets. I appreciate the detailing on these fences.
I don't like shiny things myself either. They look tacky. If I had to have a metal fence/ing I'd go with black wrought iron --maybe a muted fleur de lis motif.

If you must use stainless steel, it has to be nice simple lines coupled with cement slab or granite and no tubes.
You want this document,or perhaps the book it eventually spawned:

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
I hate this whole options/RSU strategy companies chain us with. You sit there waiting for a liquidation event or IPO with no guarantees on either.

The longer you stay, the harder it is to leave.
Almost all power is generated by heating water into steam, which can still be done by burning almost anything. It won't be very efficient, but you can do it - so traveling to the nearest coal mine/plant may be an effective energy source.
>Not sure the DDT ranks that high of concern.

The studies linking aquatic harm are actually better than the studies linking terrestrial or avian harm. As it's poorly soluble in water it just sorta hangs around and kills fish. This was known all the way back in the 1940's https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/CI...
Looks like the Fibonacci sequence, so web8 would be next, followed by web13.
I don't think the example compares. In languages like JS, double, triple or even further nested ternaries are possible. But terser isn't always better because human readability is important. I can easily understood your SASS example because I know SASS, but I'd never write it like that. If I really wanted to add a decedent selector from a body class to .class1, I'd start a new nest on the body tag.

The problem with Tailwind is there's nothing you can do to avoid the much more difficult to scan and understand syntax described above. I personally don't understand why people are drinking this koolaide. I really think this is a fad a lot of people are going to come to regret when they go back to maintain older projects based on it.
I don't like accidentally biting on metal chopsticks whereas wooden or plastic are a non issue.
Looking at another article from the same author[0], we'll have a pretty solid answer to the impact in September with the release of the A16. Apparently the A15 had very minimal CPU gains clock-for-clock over the A14.

To quote from that article:

"SemiAnalysis believes that the next generation core was delayed out of 2021 into 2022 due to CPU engineer resource problems. In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Rivos Inc, a new high performance RISC V startup which includes many senior Apple engineers. The brain drain continues and impacts will be more apparent as time moves on. As Apple once drained resources out of Intel and others through the industry, the reverse seems to be happening now."

I was very optimistic on Apple on the CPU front until I read this today. Now I'm waiting to see how the A16 pans out for them to see if it's a two generation loss of progress, or just a single generation stumble.

0: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/apple-cpu-gains-grind-to...
well the article says his strike price was $1.50 and someone was able to complete a transaction for $28 in March

Even if it’s dropped by 50%-$80% since then he almost certainly could sell his vested shares even if it’s a lot lower for above breakeven on a secondary market if he’s desperate for cash.
Netscape 8 actually supported multiple rendering engines too!

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/netscape-browser
Agreed mustard is terrible. We should get that cleaned up immediately as well.
Hopefully, with a good product
> Your entire premise is flawed. There are more than two explanations for changes in votes by demographic.

But which is the larger contributor? We of course will probably never be able to answer that with certainty, but which is more likely to be the larger factor?

> Your biggest mistake is assuming that race itself is a predictor of political affiliation.

But obviously there do exist correlations between race/ethnicity and political affiliation, both in the US and most other countries too. Almost never are they absolute (a group might split politically 60-40 or even 90-10 but almost never 100-0), and the correlations often change over time-the majority of group X might vote for one party now, but some decades ago they voted for the other instead, and maybe in a few more decades they might even swing back. Are you actually disputing this rather obvious fact?
This is exactly how it was predicted to work in the whitepaper. I've always been skeptical about it holding longterm, but this paper seems to be confirming that's held for now.

> If a greedy attacker is able to
assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth
Their share button does shadow tracking. You think a login module doesn't?