skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumerlab.com is a paid but excellent resource for obtaining information about various foods and supplements that we can find on the shelves.

Just last night I was eating some of my favorite organic roasted seaweed from Costco and spit it out half-way when I read that they are laced with lead, cadmium and arsenic, which was confirmed by independent third party testing [0].

This website has opened my eyes that many foods and supplements we have access to are deceptively unsafe.

[0] https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/seaweed-snacks-and-foods...

> All of the products contained the heavy metals lead, cadmium, and arsenic at levels often exceeding tolerable upper intake levels. It is no secret that there are heavy metals in seaweed snacks, in fact, many have warning labels indicating that they may pose a risk of reproductive harm or cancer (typically due to lead), as this is a legal requirement for products sold in California under its Prop 65 law. However, labels don't tell you how much lead or other heavy metals are present in a product. We even found that one product without a warning was more contaminated than one with a warning. Our report shows exactly how much iodine and heavy metal contamination we found in each product (see What CL Found).

Individual concentrations can be found in their product table for paying customers. The subscription cost is worth more than its weight in gold.
>Depressed, and annoyed, I went back to Canada

Dentistry is private in Canada, the same as it is in the US. Coverage is via private plans, and dentists will goose insurance charges just the same.
> salary isn't posted in the ad

I don't know how US job market looks like right now but if this was in EU I would simply keep scrolling if there wasn't a salary range unless your name was really recognizable. There's too many offers to waste time writing emails/messages that lead to bullshit pitch-calls that waste my time before some recruiter gracefully tells me what the potential salary is.
"pay everyone when they reach the achievement threshold"

They're paying people for activity (input) not achievement (output).
In fact, most American voters live in "safe districts" today, and their number generally goes down over time. On the federal level, we currently have something like 350 districts that lean strongly towards one or the other party, and 80 that are actually competitive.
> CA 'scandal' was vastly misrepresented by most in the press, it was a bit of a problem, but completely over stated.

CA abused the friend-of-a-friend feature of FB's API to create detailed profiles of millions of voters, which they then used to micro-target them with ads. Advertisers are quite aware of the psychological effect of ads, and their ability to influence decision making, even on a subconscious level. It's pretty clear, then, how this would be useful for pushing propaganda, and swaying voters one way or another.

The 2020 leaks[1] show that they've done this in 68 countries. Whether or not they were entirely responsible for election results is debatable, but you can't possibly call this "a bit of a problem" and "completely over stated".

This is a very real and dangerous weaponization of social media, and it's not difficult to see how it's a natural progression of propaganda efforts from past decades. It would be naive to think that CA was the only and last firm operating in this business. They're just the ones we happened to hear about.

> Another question is ... is it rational and/or moral?

How is that even a question? There's nothing moral about getting paid by politicians to manipulate voters into voting for them. It's the modern equivalent of outright buying votes. If you don't see how that undermines democracies[2], then we have completely different worldviews.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-an...

[2]: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/kreps-social-media-...
I'm sometimes kind of surprised at how often I see people say they don't mind it. It's by far the tool I like the least out of everything I've used at any job I've ever been in.
Hacking into the worldwide Jacuzzi SmartTub network
Jira is the worst possible choice, except for all the others.
These guys were the first thing I thought of but to be honest for me, their suggestions have been a bit off. Ofc it's all subjective but I remember distinctly buying two full face helmets they had on their list because their ratings were so different from the concensus from reviews. I could'nt tell who to trust. The gearlab suggestion was very obviously inferior beyond first impressions
Frog prince
It's a weird variation on network eitffects. People trust bitcoin because it's pure, well understood and relatively stable. Yes, ETH may be better in some respects, but BTC didn't have to hard fork after the firs DAO. BTC hasn't been screwing up a move to POS for years.

BTC has tonnes of drawbacks, but the drawbacks are stable and known. And this confidence in Bitcoin stabilizes bitcoin, beleive in bitcoin because it has critical mass.

This may of course all be wrong, something may go wron tomorrow and completely hose the thing. But people generally don't think that.
Exporting to pdf/png does a good job of getting everything into view. Otherwise the 'doc' view (the third view option button in the bottom left corner) might be your best bet, it just displays a list
Solana’s Lending Platform Solend Votes to Temporarily Control the Whale Account
You can also easily pay with better anonymity with the Strike app, https://strike.me, which abstracts bitcoin mainnet and lightning network payments behind USD, so you don't have to worry about actually holding bitcoin or managing tax implications. You just use bitcoin as a globally agnostic payment rail, masked with your local fiat, so the price volatility doesn't affect you.

Mullvad even gives you a 10% discount for bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and monero payments.

I am a bit disappointed that they haven't yet integrated bitcoin lightning network. That would be a huge improvement for reduced transaction fees given the low value of transactions they deal with, as well as instant confirmation rather than 6 block (~1 hour) confirmations. You could even theoretically stream nanopayments for each minute of use with lightning, rather than pay for a whole month.
Just in case not everyone are in the loop, LMG is Linus Media Group [1] which is the publishing agency behind the popular YouTube channel "Linus Tech Tips" [2]. It is a different Linus, not Torvalds. :)

[1]: https://linusmediagroup.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusTechTips
Giant Mekong Stringray
Right... people should just stop using services that are aggressive. Remember you are the product, unless you pay them. So they dont care about you.

Just dont use them. If o go to a restaurant and they let me waiting standing up more than 20 minutes, I'll just go somewhere else. Why do people treat internet websites any different? (You dont lose anything for not having Meta)
Banks also use Excel and VBA macros for a lot of things that deeply scare me. It feels like the planet’s financial systems are kept together by spit and prayer.
I don't need the microphone. How do I optimize the space that is available now?
I wouldn't recommend consuming art like we do documentation.
Box fan is too loud even on the lowest settings, good when the air quality is horrible but not for general use, imho.
They recommend against a bunch of things even if they get commission
These are all exactly the right questions and challenges we are encountering, and we have no good answers. In all cases, customer IT would prefer vendors did not give them more work and risk.

We could support LDAP instead of OAUTH, yes, but for the shops that want us to speak TLS and DNS, they still have some hassle.
In my latest experience, this handles disconnects due to laptop sleep pretty roughly.

Far better than nothing though, and is integrated in many GUI tools that use GTK.
I've seen two spaces listed as a "resumé don't-do" cos it marks you as an oldster.
I'll throw in two of my favourites:

Recording A Room In A Room 20 Times - Audio Inception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlT7U0ILu4

Over 1000 Vintage Synthesizers all in one room, I felt like a kid in a candy shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrPLBSlopQ
I went to a corporate dental practice in my early 20's and they showed me via an x-ray that my wisdom teeth were practically horizontal and growing forward rather than upward. But the prognosis was that they would inevitably get infected at some super inconvenient moment. By whose definition of inconvenient though? There was, 10 years later, an infection that I chose not to ignore (it was clearly an infection), and I had the teeth extracted at that time. It was a hassle, it had to be dealt with promptly, but it was dealt with.
I wish the comments were more specific about which features they don’t like.

For me a particularly frustrating aspect is the way the UI moves around a lot. I’m quite anxious to click anything until all the loading spinners have stopped in case I click the wrong thing. Then I could be taken to a page or feature I’ve never seen before.

Also it’s really annoying when I try to copy something from a ticket description but it starts editing the whole description field.

EDIT - I'd also like to add that as a developer, once I finish my ticket I assign it to a QA. Then I can never get back to the ticket. I'd like a really easy way to see all of the tickets I've ever completed. But completed tickets aren't assigned to me, they're assigned to QA.
>No it doesn't make you unemployable. Any reasonable person will not care that you did this, or even will take it as a sign that you're a good person.

Nobody who knew about this episode would ever hire that guy. Too much baggage, too high maintenance. He'd never make it through a simple HR screening if that popped up. I mean I'm sure someone would eventually hire him for something, but he's definitely on people's radar now I suspect. Most people want to get work done and not deal with this type of bullshit, plain and simple.

>What is up with all these whipped people in this comment section who don't understand that quality people respect others for sticking up to bullies? This attitude is enabling abuse by defending keeping it private.

Both seemed like bullies to me. Corporations hire people to solve problems and save money. They don't care about personal crusades.
Land value tax is, in a sense, punishing people for not being productive. So there's that.
> +2 PII

> +2 trafficking in access devices (incl. account numbers)

FWIW, the jury found her not guilty on these particular counts (9 and 10).

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.27...
No. He makes money when solana goes up and risks liquidation if solana goes down. In other words, he has a leveraged long position.
Yep, the only way I'll send a blind resume and think about jumping through hoops is if it's a super interesting company I want to work for. Otherwise, I just asked my friends and network and skip all the hiring BS.
Sometimes companies pay for the time it takes to complete a take-home project. I think it’s a good idea, especially now given all the hiring freezes and especially for a remote position where the applicant has no idea how many other applicants (around the country/world) they might be competing against.
Curious what kind of detergent you have found to be most effective for doing laundry in sinks? I'm aware of Woolite, but presume that's not what you're talking about?
I don't mind it. Maybe because I only peek into it about once per week or so, so we don't really drive daily work using it.
>'The Wirecutter is a highly flawed review site, but at least it's a real one.'
Since it was bought by the NYT company I no longer trust their quality. This great air filter contra article is a great example and I appreciate the link and the person who took the time to write it
this happened to both me and my wife. never heard back. account remains unavailable. multiple follow ups went to black holes.
Not SSHFS specific but is there a tool to crawl all these forks and find which ones are at least not behind? Or which are ahead? Something easy to browse?
I used to hate Jira, and then, I had to use Asana...
Why is the salary not posted? What do you gain by not posting a range?
The nominal value of each parcel of land doesn't matter when calculating a landowner's tax burden. You just need to compare each piece of land relative to one another and scale the tax burden accordingly.
One sentence per line makes prose feel sanctimonious, even self-aggrandizing. I find this dude's writing un-readable for exactly this reason. All of his articles are like HTML versions of the Ducks Go Quack TED Talk [0]. I just roll my eyes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s
Been using this feature since they introduced it and can say that I'm very pleased with it so far in combination with it's 1password integration.

When creating an account somewhere, fastmail automatically generates a new email for the site via an API in one click.

Highly recommend.
Jira need to fix their loading times
I like to read their subjective discussions as one point of view but its really hard to get much use from their rankings. One obvious example is at one point in time all their highest ranked ultralight sleeping bags were quilts (ie. open back, no zippers) and then all of a sudden the quilts dropped to the bottom and were replaced with more traditional zip up bags. I assume the reviewer changed and simply doesn't like quilts, which is totally reasonable, they don't work for everyone but it wasn't clear how the rankings are useful when they just shuffled so drastically.
I like Jira because it hides the crap I don't want to do or think about in this thing called the backlog, which I can point to as a "see, it is something in the works but we don't have enough resources" thing, and then I can focus on the things I need/want to do by putting them in the Will Do Soon column.
Cloudfront isn't a great option here, but CDN transit fees are still pretty high for this sort of scenario unless you have significant economies of scale.
Agreed with the vibe of other comments here. It's hard not to come off snobby, and the market won't allow such snobbery forever, but for now the reality is that a senior engineer is interviewing YOU, not the other way around. Anything longer than a few emails and maybe a one hour conversation and you risk them moving on. Technical assignment is definitely pushing it, unless perhaps it's paid.
>Let us not forget, the only thing innovative on the original iphone was the large touch screen

...and a full-featured WebKit browser. That was huge.
Against the Term “Creator”
Two positive:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652371/

> The subject group using the powered toothbrush demonstrated clinical and statistical improvement in overall plaque scores.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpe.13126

> In the long-term, powered toothbrush seems to be effective in reducing mean PD and mean CAL progressions, besides increasing the number of teeth retained.

One negative:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002065392...

> The results of this study shows no evidence of statistically significant difference in respect to plaque control, between Jordan Power electric toothbrush and either of Oral-B Advantage or Panbehriz Classic manual brushes in a group of dental students after 2 weeks.

I'm sure you can find many more of both
Would you mind sharing your numbers? I recently tried to figure out how much my car costs me but it was less than half of your 10'000, so I'm wondering - either I missed something, or you have a rather expensive car.
Blame your leadership for creating such a bloated company that the only thing to satiate investors was to sell out completely to auto companies. I interviewed at Mapbox at one time, a ridiculous 3-day interview at their SF office where lots of PM's and managers were buzzing around hosting meetings, giving the perception of getting stuff done when in fact it was even clear to me, an outsider, that nothing was being accomplished. I found the product to be lacking and the team to be outsized for the quality and depth of the product. The core business appeared very weak and on VC life-support.
I had to be in Genf for an appointment at our temporary embassy (normally living in Zurich) and before the day I bought a "day GA" - a pass that allowed me to travel almost all of Switzerland for a fixed price. The train takes around 3 hours or so one way, so once there, I just hopped on a bus (covered by the GA), did what I went there to do, then did the trip back as well.

I had an electric socket under my seat so I could work on the train.

Cost? 69 CHF for the day. (Or 59? ish.). Cheap enough.
Hiring: More people doesn't mean more progress
Thanks for the work! :)
More importantly, that's how these companies treat people and get away with it. So, however wrong and scary it is, it's also true.
Every time I use Terraform I want to make a Lisp dialect that describes cloud infrastructure.
You want a free account? Bend over.
You want to host your own photos and share with your friends? Go ahead and figure it out on your own.

Or build a better Instagram.
What if you take something more concrete than "redness", like pain ? Let's say you stub your toe or burn your finger. In that moment is there any room for doubt that pain exists ?
We do know how to shut consciousness off or suppress it. That's what anesthesia drugs do. Autonomic functions are not affected. Self-awareness and motivated action shut down.
Agreed on the challenges with subjectivity and I probably should have clarified - I like their full-length testimonials. Never did figure out how their star rating and badges worked...
When It Rained for Two Million Years (PBS Eons)
Sorry, you’re right, I double-counted the half card.
Think about it. You expect to hire people making less right now, because most people won't take a pay cut if they aren't forced to.

But if you are paying $200K, then presumably you will not hire anyone who is now making $100K, $50K, or $5K. So you're restricted to a fairly narrow band.

Where is your "glass ceiling", the minimum someone has to be making for you to take them seriously?
I don't think they've flown that flight in a lot of years....
Instagram can have useful business purposes. Some personal trainers/consultants/very small businesses only have an Instagram account, and seem to be doing well. Canada's public broadcaster published an article about this a while back, and the consequences when such business owners were locked out of their account due to an outage: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/facebook-instagram-outage-b...

Otherwise, in certain social groups (especially young adults), Instagram is the main way to stay to stay in touch with friends, even just for the messaging app. So, not having an account means missing out on significant social connection for some (e.g. if it's the platform where the group chats are hosted).

It really depends on your friend group, though; for many people, their social groups just aren't on Instagram or social media very much or at all, so it's easier to quit because there's nothing to miss out on (so for these people, the verification would hardly be worth it).
At best, you can hope to make surveilling you more expensive or more inconvenient. But if Snowden taught us anything, it's that whatever you needed to do to get yourself tangled up in the 5/14 eyes trip-wire, you've already done, long ago, and continue to do.

VPNs don't mean shit. You're leaking data everywhere you go. Browser fingerprinting, WiFi/BT signals, cell tower signals, GPS. If you own a smart phone and a credit card you're already fucked.

Let's not confuse things for people by making them think if they plop a 5 Euro VPN between them and their yahoo! email account that this does anything at all to deter state level actors.

VPNs are good for a few things:

(1) Evading state-sponsored censorship (which uses technology minted in good old Silicon Valley) -- where the state doesn't really care unless you're really bothering them

(2) Marginally disrupting the pan-opticon that is surveillance capitalism by mixing the signals a bit, where your ISP can't sell you out to data brokers. But even then... DNS leaks, etc still happen and still fuck with the plan.

(3) Maybe not getting scooped up as badly in the state dragnet, and maybe not being accused of something you actually didn't have anything to do with.

But brother, if you think you're gonna be the next Ross Ulbrich with your Mullvad VPN, then you better be memorizing your recipe for toilet wine because you're gonna land in a fed pen.
> Do you think EU politicians didn't know exactly what they were doing when they gave responsibility for reporting emissions figures to automakers and then blindly trusted them

Most medical devices will carry out private bio-safety tests. Most electronics will perform private EMC tests. I agree it's crap but automotive is not some special case or part of a conspiracy.

A lot of regulated industries self-regulate. The regulatory bodies trust the results documented by manufacturers because they realistically have no money/time/expertise to do it themselves.

Post diesel gate "The new rules, finalized in 2018, give the Commission the right to carry out compliance checks on vehicles, order bloc-wide model recalls and slap fines of €30,000 per car on cheating producers. The EU's science wing, the Joint Research Centre, has spent €7 million on two new testing facilities that will perform snap checks, a Commission official said.". [0]

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/new-eu-car-rules-aim-to-stop...
You've spelled out quite well that there are things about our internal subjective experience we don't understand to a discomforting degree.

But we understand really well the substrate from which those experiences arise. Imagine it this way. Imagine that mathematicians are trying to solve some problem, they don't even know if the problem is computable or not. Some genius comes around with a computer that given the necessary input, provides the solution. He refuses to explain how the program works and the program itself is gigabytes of incomprehensible spaghetti code. So they are no closer to understanding the problem, but now they do know that it's computable.
Yeah, my interest in this is for server-side purposes. I can imagine wanting to build a feature that allows users of my web application to write and execute their own custom code - think triggers and hooks for custom logic.

If they're creating code that will run on my servers I need to have an EXTREMELY reliable sandbox around it - I see WebAssembly as providing the best possible option for that these days.

Letting them write their customizations in JavaScript which I then execute in a JavaScript interpereter inside a WebAssembly container sounds like a pretty good option.
A company is a group effort and people can quit whenever they want. The owner doesn't have complete say and shouldn't have complete say, and it's good for employees to talk to each other so that they can use their say together.
> but it doesn't really say how to do this or go into detail about what this might look like.

I think that's because for each organization that is likely going to be different. It may be enough to simply push to product that "Hey, we need to also spend time on new innovations, not just day to day feature grinds" and lay out plans to get those greenfield innovations prioritized and deployed.

It may be the case that the innovation is around infrastructure "Hey, we are deploying to Ubuntu 14.04 VMs with an inflexable infrastructure. Perhaps we need to start working towards something more modern and flexable?" That will look very different from just giving PM time for innovation and may stop development from making meaningful innovations.

The point of the article, I think, is to provide a path and light on innovation and not leave it to some dark development corners where innovation is a "don't ask don't tell" sort of scenario.