skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How mobile is the lead today? There are a number of extremely insoluble lead salts, such as the sulfide, the phosphate, the chromate, the titanate, some of the oxides, and even the carbonate and the sulfate.

My mental model is that lead metal and the above-mentioned salts are basically immobile in the soil: you can have all the lead sulfide or metallic lead you want in your soil without it leaching into the groundwater or contaminating the tomatoes you grow in it. And lead ions (in the form of the acetate, for example) are only mobile until they bump into one of the anions mentioned above, at which point they get locked up for geological periods of time. Organic lead compounds like tetraethyllead are a much scarier problem, but they also get broken down into ionic lead over a period of years.

Is that right? Am I misunderstanding the dynamics?
Yes, local trends are notoriously generalizable, and there are no failures to anecdata powering your world view
Whatever I want? Getting hired by and working for a MAAMA BigCorp is not exactly the pinnacle of human achievement.

It is certainly an eye opener, though. Go live your best, most fulfilling life, whatever that looks like for you!
Just mix it into a few different addresses and sell yourself some NFTs.
Controlled digital lending.

https://controlleddigitallending.org/front
ha, more like until Coinbase and all the exchanges and your bank decides to treat you like a criminal
When done in a purposeful way, sure.

But for 99% of the people it's like:

- "white sand good. clear water good. sun good."

- "yum, food."

- "tee hee. disney."
“This person sounds awful because they’re smarter than me.”

I didn't read the comment that way, but then I share the opinion that Mel seems like a difficult person to work with or to manage. Wrote obscure code and apparently failed to document any of it. Took glee when said code worked the opposite of requested. The guy who took over seems to have had to waste countless hours trying to de-obfuscate the code in order to reverse the logic of the test.

I appreciate the cleverness, but there are some red flags here. Also, I got the impression that some of the cleverness was for its own sake, rather than out of necessity.
>and he's done the exact same thing.

That's how failing upwards works in this racket. As long as you have a great looking resume at a few giants in the industry with some fancy titles to boot, you're set for life regardless of how incompetent you are.
If you think "religious zealots" are the only authoritarians, boy do I have news for you!
I may be showing ignorance of some important use case here, but I'd put AVX512 in the "junkware feature" category. It can run AI/HPC code faster than the main processor, but still so much slower than a GPU as to be pointless; when it does run, it lowers the frequency and grinds the rest of the processor to a halt until it eventually overheats anyway. Maybe, maybe it has a place in their big desktop cores, but why would anyone want it in a laptop? You can't even use it in a modern ultrabook-style casing without a thermal shutdown and probably first-degree burns, without even mentioning the battery drain.
So you sent less than a penny to github donation addresses ~35 times an hour every hour for days on end? And you were surprised when folks didn't enjoy this spam?
Are you suggesting that the US is funding a revolutionary force in Ukraine?
Agreed. Plus, isn't that like 80%+ of what we do today?

I realize some people do cutting edge programming, but the bulk of us probably spend much of the day shifting strings and filling in model fields and chasing webpack configs. Or maybe I'm just a sap and everyone else is doing cool stuff idk.
The US has already done this, and has been using it to combat oil price rises.

Look into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

It would seem that part of the problem is that we use such massive quantities of oil that it isn't easy enough to store enough to make much of a difference.
I’ve seen similar patterns with tech that’s older than Spring (Servlets/JSP). Also, wasn’t it EJB that promoted getters and setters everywhere?
And pints and pounds. US/UK's measurement fetishes are quaint but not really amusing.
Seen this at a couple companies and it doesn’t work well. The platform team becomes a bottleneck and the devs don’t want to have to deal with or learn the mess that is terraform.

It’s time for the ecosystem to move beyond the half baked config language known as HCL
> a communal MIT project, and made some edits

The Jargon File had been dead and dated for nearly a decade when he picked it up. His maintenance and publication was an important part of making this content relevant and accessible to future generations.

Eric Raymond's work is a mix of good and bad-- like you could say about anyone.
Its estimated revenue is $5 billion per year with plans for $11 billion in 4 years(from 2019). And based on the amount of ads I see there, it seems very believable.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-maps-poised-11-billion...
> It is literally a part of her body.

No comment on the general issue of abortion. Question remains for those who push this line as to which body part is that? A fetus is clearly an organism growing inside of someone's body but it is not a "body part" of another organism.
It's easier to link a regular bank account with a home address
Oh come on now, this didn't survive a one second google search[1],[2],[3],[4],and their search us terrible.

No wonder my bullshit meter was going off.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/01/henry-cuellar-fbi-ra...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/09/16/former-demo...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-yee/california...

[4] https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/fbi/2022/06/22/...

Etc ad infinitum.

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You could have said the same thing about Blender (open-source 3D modeling/animation software) a few years ago, and you would look like an idiot today.
Mere assertion does not constitute an argument.

It is unfortunate that you think you are contributing to the conversation by posting a one-line statement that simply repeats conventional beliefs.

What evidences can you give for the existence of the law that cannot also be given for Santa Claus? Or could not be given for Zeus, if we were in Classical Greece?
Lots of B2B and embedded use cases. Want to make a product showing driving times between destinations? Google Maps API, $$. Want to show how busy a restaurant is? Places API. Someone just did a bike route and you want to tell them the elevation gain they did? API call.

Google Maps and Places actually both have a ton of paid use cases, largely around being embedded in other apps. My defunct events startup made heavy use of both.

Something this article neglects to mention is that Google Maps has an inherit advantage by being baked into Android. Even if Maps isn't using any private APIs or has any special permissions, the sheer install base that they can use to collect data gives them a technological lead over anyone who isn't Apple (or one of the large Chinese phone manufacturers in any of the markets they have large market share in).

Traffic data? Aggregated from millions upon millions (billions) of Android users. Restaurant busyiness? Google knows how many of their users are at a location. For quite awhile (not sure if this is still the case) if you took a photo of a restaurant on your phone, Google would just outright ask you to upload it to Google maps. Yelp can't compete with that!

As an aside, these are also some of the reasons why Microsoft kept fighting for some smartphone market share. There are so many things you can only do if you are installed by default everywhere.

Google can go up to websites "You should enable Google accounts for login because literally 70% of smartphone users have a Google account".

Boom, overnight market share in a related market, analytics data flows in at a furious rate, ad revenue keeps going up.

"Let your customers pay with Google pay, double digit % of all smartphone users have it setup."

Anyone who isn't Amazon or Apple (maybe Paypal due to historical market share) can replicate that salespitch, and for whatever reason Amazon stopped focusing on Pay with Amazon (no idea why, awesome product).
Rust is taking over the tools space for sure, replacing important tools that need to run often and speed is king, replacing tools written in python and perl. Rust is also making its way into new core cross-platform libraries that need speed, instead of C++, however, no one is going to rewrite C++ libraries.

No UI or product team is going to use Rust over Swift (or Kotlin) or whatever your stack currently depends on.
That your IP address is used as part of delivery customization isn't surprising (though why it would make sense for platforms you need to log into I'm not sure). As far as YouTube/TikTok/Twitter sharing tracking info - unlikely, I'd say just the fact that you are the same person using all 3 services which all picked up on your personal preferences from your initial usage of each site would be enough to explain being shown similar content. I could perhaps accept both Twitter and YouTube have access to some other centralised source of personalised data if you've provided the same email address or phone number to both, though I'd think there'd be regulations around that.
This is my take too. The asynchronous nature of HN takes some time to get used to, but it organically brings diversity to every discussion. I've seen insightful comments that make me want to follow a user, but in the end I'm glad I can't because it'd reduce diversity.

Other social networks focus too much on following influencers, which naturally narrows your horizon to whatever the influencer thinks. People who follow influencers to criticize them are still narrowed to the direct opposite of what the influencer thinks. It's the monetization of bugs in our psyche.
The battle to get large tech companies to respect user privacy has been fought and lost (at least in the US). Systems are explicitly built that provide portals for the government to look into people's "private" data, often without any active oversight by employees of the company itself.

I'd be the first to line up to support some kind of action to change that, but at this point every large company is so closely intertwined with the State that it's a lost cause. Building out new systems that respect privacy and users is the action item here, not raging at Facebook for Facebooking.
You don't need a virtual environment to get started. It is very easy to get python running.

1) Run the windows installer
2) python3
3) print('Hello World')

Show me a language that is easier to get to hello world.
So why aren't employers doing more to offboard folks with grace, kindness, and compassion (and maybe some degree of expected severance given the goal) if they are really "sacrificing their potential for the team's success" when all that's needed is for the employee to realize they need to move on?

Is loyalty to any employer so utterly and completely dead that I need to enter my future employer-employee relationships with different expectations about loyalty after 1/2/4/5 years?

I'm incredibly fortunate to have lucked out at a place that was acquired 2 weeks after I was let go for being in a similar place as you can imagine when someone spends 4 years somewhere without a promotion or any material recognition of that loyalty. So my 4 years was worth something - at least the after-tax value of my exercised and liquidated stock options.

But that's an incredibly risky basis for value gained by staying somewhere vs. value gained by going somewhere else.
The entire ledger is public anyway, everyone can already see the transactions that went into your wallet.
It never ceases to amaze me at the creativity in where they can shove an ad
Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
It doesn't tell you whether they have actively investigated the incident though. And if they did, how thorough they were.
To be fair, if a president got elected that was vowing for the destruction of your industry, I doubt you'd spend a couple million investing in continuing that industry.

Might as well take your profits and run elsewhere since the prospects of long term oil usage is currently up in political turmoil. Political turmoil makes people think twice about investing in anything that could be taken away in a moments notice.
The sound of Brainfuck running the ChaCha20 cipher
and then you'll read an xml file that doesn't meet your schema and your code will crash
I only recently noticed how far OSM has progressed compared to Google Maps. Yet, it's missing one dominant client which works nicely and user friendly across the board. Nothing comes close to Google Maps despite the way worse map data. And Google is compensating most of the missing map data by far superior routing with real world traffic data. The lack of map data starts to show up in niche routing like walking, hiking and biking though…
I wish they would. The air quality noticeably improved where I live.
Java should adopt something like the Checker Framework Nullness Checker in its first-party tooling.

https://github.com/typetools/checker-framework
Right. I meant interruption is cooperative.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrenc...
I can tell you one or two pretty solid reasons why not to. It boils down to privacy and security.

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

https://iplocation.io/
I thought the default search was AND? And that it only starts returning results that don't include a word if that word is rated low in relevance (possibly due to misspelling) and the number of results from the original search are low? (Which is literally what it says it's doing when you do such a search?)
Untrue. Abortion is legal until 40 weeks in every EU country and fully paid for by universal healthcare.
LED bulbs can last 20 years if they're designed to. Most of what is sold is generally very low quality, with poor heat management, low quality power
circuitry and excessive load on the LEDs, which all result in shortened life. It's a shame. Some of the first bulbs I got were good quality and I still have them in frequent use 10+ years later. Many others have been quickly failing junk.
‘AWS vs. K8s’ is the new ‘Windows vs. Linux’ (2019)
I assume somewhere on earth exchange will remain legal (eg Amsterdam). So my friend just uses services legal to him locally.

And even if it doesn't, your friendly local drug dealer, who may already be trading crypto to purchase product, will presumably offer exchange services. No one needs an exchange they can just charge a spread between people wanting to buy and those wanting to sell. That's how money change already works after all...

And you're right about Monero!
Half way through customizing a Hugo theme, I suddenly realized that I don't need a theme at all. Hugo can be used themelessly, where you just write templates specifically for your site. Everything was so much easier from there.
Provide some level of detail on how they looked for evidence. "We have no evidence" could mean "we didn't bother looking for evidence", or "we looked extensively for evidence, but didn't find any." In fact, the company has an incentive not to keep logs or collect evidence specifically so they can truthfully claim they don't have any evidence of a breach
NPR was significantly biased even in the late 90s, when they went all-in on Greenspan's idea that we shouldn't reduce, but increase our national debit. Day after day they pushed this narrative with absolutely zero opposing economic viewpoints.

The same pattern happened in the 2000s, with the Iraq war of choice. The drumbeat was ever present, hour after hour with no opposing discussion.

NPR has been an echo chamber for some time now. Which "old NPR" do you miss? Were they different in the 80s or 70s ?
Still less efficient than dumping your piece of knowledge insomzthing like a second brain, aka personal knowledge management.
The tricky part is whether to write down everything and make your notes too long to read/follow, or summarise things with the risk of forgetting an important piece of info [why you should do this or that, what you should NOT do, what additional piece of knowledge is required, etc].
The art of taking smart notes is really fascinating.
To get around the fact that anybody could track your every transaction on ETH, rather than just your bank or CC company and the IRS.

Getting cash out of your bank account is also an easy way to anonymize.
> what you may see is a lower receiver stamped for 5.56 NATO assambled with a 7.62 upper and barrel

the last paragraph is not exactly correct, a lower receiver for 556 NATO STANAG magazines has a different length magazine well (AR-15 derived design, not AR-10) and cannot take the dimensions of an AR10 magazine/7.62 NATO magazine.

you can mistakenly chamber a .300 blackout in a 556 nato rifle upper because the blackout is the same length cartridge as a 556 nato round and will feed.

you cannot mistakenly shove a 7.62x51 NATO/.308 winchester round into a rifle lower/upper that is not an AR-10 derived design because there would be no way to even seat the magazine.

even if you were to somehow mistakenly mount an ar10/762 NATO upper and barrel on an ar15 lower the only way you could try to get a round into the chamber would be to shove it in sideways through the ejection port
I don't think I would've seen this comment when Trump was president...
23 weeks is very possible to have a 100% healthy kid with modern medicine. I have very little sympathy in this case.
Mixers only work with liquidity. Just forking it doesn’t accomplish anything, you have to get people to use it. That’s tough when no one is using it.
EU allows importation of some GM crops
The situation regarding POJOs are annoying, but I believe Java maintainers are fighting the good fight: introducing them in the language would hardcode this arguably bad pattern indefinitely. One might say that with the amount of code written this way, properties are already here to say, but I personally find Java’s stance on feature addition much more sane than C# cool and quick, buy maybe too fast one.

I like to believe that records with the upcoming ‘withers’ will be an adequate answer (if a bit too late) to this whole question.
It amazes me that we need surveys to try to figure this out, instead of, you know, having records of all vaccines made, distributed, and administered. Even if we don't have names, we should know how many were shipped, how many were subsequently thrown away, etc.
Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry
Google should have picked a real language: php. When script is completed all resources are freed, let the OS figure it out. No manual GC drama.
I agree some of their examples aren’t great, but I think what they’re saying is that Astro’s benefits become less relevant for apps which are highly interactive in the client. You can certainly use Astro to build those, but in many cases you may be just as well served (if not better) by using a more established tool oriented toward whichever client framework/libraries you choose (eg Next.js or Nuxt or SvelteKit etc).

That said, there’s quite a lot of space between that extreme and the mostly-static “web site” extreme, and I agree Astro would be a better fit than they let on, for a large chunk of that space. My suspicion is that this is intentional, to keep their current focus and explicit use-case commitments narrower. And I wouldn’t expect it to remain that narrow in the future.
> One reason, which is a bad reason, is that many people just don't like to document and handle errors. Instead of being happy that the compiler is telling them that they forgot to handle or declare an IOException from this call, they get annoyed that it's yelling at them "for no reason". This is simply lack of understanding/care for how you program.

Usually, what happens is that you call some library code (or some code that a teammate wrote) and that code will declare an IOException or something like that. In many cases, there's no point in handling that, as that file that you're trying to open or similar isn't supplied by the user but e.g. a static resource. That's the entire point of the article, that panicking when encountering a violated precondition is totally acceptable.

The unchecked vs. checked exception distinction also suffers from the fact that it's usually the call site, and not the declaration site, that knows whether an exception is recoverable or not.

Java checked exceptions would be fine if it had something like "unwrap", which just converts a checked exception to an unchecked one, but it doesn't, and that's why everyone kind of hates them.
Absolutely. That said, it's very very hard sometimes to prove a negative.
Maps seems like the expected place to put ads. Billboards have been around forever.

Not blockable by ad blockers, you have people with intent to drive by certain places, or drive to certain places.
Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
I thought that this was well known?
Not enough by the likes of some
Yes I wonder about this as well. Say Musk had good reasons to suspect some private information was at risk and Twitter kept denying anything was going on. No matter how minor the actual impact would be in the end, this would not paint Twitter in a favourable light especially in a legal battle where Musk claims Twitter held back vital information.
> You'd think they would have learned something from the current chaos, but the messaging coming out of Whitehall suggests that they're just waiting for the current storm to blow over while not looking over the horizon at how to stop the next time.

The civil service are utterly incapable of responding to any crisis. In fact, I’d argue that “Yes, Minister” was more documentary than satire.

Dominic Cummings’s breakdowns of COVID behind the scenes paint the picture of chaotic dysfunction back then. Hard to believe anything will have changed since.
It's a small place with a lot of interesting old exhibits, and the illuminated display. I enjoyed it's quirkiness.
I posted this to bring some since of balance to all the high gas price stories that were previously on Hacker News. Gas prices are still plenty higher than during the period when driving was down significantly, and there was no war involving a major oil supplier. Gas prices will soon not be significantly different than they were for, say, 2011-2014: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGW . You're right that, because petroleum is a global market, there's not a lot that the president or congress can do to do to bring prices down, but they also shouldn't be blamed for recent increases.
I'm assuming the following from what I've read so far:

- if I have a Bitcoin wallet address I can drop 10 million dollars into it

- I can do this without permission

- I can have the wrong Bitcoin wallet address
HN is a great site for people who want attention. It's funny that this article is on the front page but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, what exactly are you arguing, here? "assert 1=1" is a useless test, that doesn't invalidate tests whatsoever
That isn't a reasonable analogy in any way.

The only thing that could happen with the data would be that it is exploited.

The only thing that happens to stolen cars is not going to the taliban.

These are not even similar in nature. They aren't saying "the data was stolen". They also aren't saying "the data was available for exploit we are unable to determine if that occured."

What if they never looked for evidence of unauthorized access? They wouldn't have any!

This is the same as modern science and medicine frequently using this academic phrase, no evidence, when what they mean is that there has been no investigation.
> One can also believe vigilante violence against people given abortions to be just, and thus justify such actions against them. In which case, the question is, "What should someone whose moral code is opposed to yours do?" Which in my opinion is a silly question.

No, it's not a silly question. It is the reason we need to have laws.