skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last 15 years academic institutions have definitely started talking about it, especially in new mandatory classes on ethics for their students.
Sure. If the political center of the U.S. shifted leftward to what it was back in the 70s then maybe the left leaning party would push for more tangible policies.
Not quite, the mandatory insurance is capped at 2.5G€. The taxpayer would have to cover the rest. Compared with the fukushima cleanup costs that's quite insufficient.
>>Why don't we want to foster this?

Because already people

1. Have profound misunderstanding of what is a "chemical"

2. have profound Ignorance of how very very few things in life are "provably knowingly completely safe"

It's not that we would "eliminate a few bad chemicals" with that approach, it's that we would eliminate virtually everything. And let's not start with "let's use natural stuff" and get into silly argument as to how do you define it and how do you prove it safe (as people are also profoundly ignorant on what is "natural" or how provably safe it is).

Everything will kill you. You will die. Note that I am not advocating nihilistic approach of "anything goes" / rampant markets / zero oversight, but I'm also not advocating nihilistic approach of "nothing goes". Human body and interactions are mind numbingly complex and I don't know how you demonstrate, conclusively, anything without testing in prod or even then, for given value of "conclusively". I doubt we would leave apples for sale if we tried to decompose them and prove all compounds within it conclusively safe.
I don't mind nuclear, as long as people are prepared to pay the price at the meter and dispose of the waste. But people aren't prepared to do either...
Your ideal film is the opening of the film Lord of War (edited for time).

https://youtu.be/VHn1zogeyO4
> You can't use techniques like distillation to remove PFAS

Can we get a citation on this? I’m not a chemical engineer, but distillation seems like a pretty good way to get rid of virtually everything.
> Also not mentioned downside of cast iron - you need to dry it perfectly every time or it rusts very easily.

I mean, yeah, you have to use tools the way they're meant to be used for them to be effective. But dry isn't the goal really, just leave a thin coat of oil on it and it'll never rust.

They're cheap, rock-solid, non-stick (and you're welcome to use metal tools against them) - and if you abuse them enough, you can just re-season them in a couple of hours and they'll be back in factory condition.

I personally have a few pieces of stainless cookware and a cast iron skillet. I use the skillet for probably 75% of my cooking. Its ability to retain heat is lovely. I can't really order steak at restaurants anymore because I can do it at home for half the price with a beautiful crust and sear, perfect mid-rare inside. Once you grease it up and heat it up, nothing will stick to it. You can cook at high temp, brown things, sear things, finish them in the oven - all with a natural non-stick finish. Cleanup just involves at most a scrub down with sea salt and a little water, and a thin coat of oil.

You could still cook acidic food acidic food on it if for a short period of time if you've got a good season - and not too acidic - but no, it's not the tool for every job.

Getting the skillet was definitely a step change for my cooking. It's pretty hard to beat a 10.25" Lodge skillet for $20, delivered, from Amazon.
Per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesitylene:

> Mesitylene is a colorless liquid with sweet aromatic odor. It is a component of coal tar, which is its traditional source. It is a precursor to diverse fine chemicals.

> Mesitylene is mainly used as a precursor to 2,4,6-trimethylaniline, a precursor to colorants. This derivative is prepared by selective mononitration of mesitylene, avoiding oxidation of the methyl groups.[9]

> Mesitylene is used in the laboratory as a specialty solvent. In the electronics industry, mesitylene has been used as a developer for photopatternable silicones due to its solvent properties.

Colorants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourant
If Gemini interests you, I'd appreciate your feedback on an approach with similar goals I call KyuWeb: https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/KyuWeb
And I believe the point of Kernighan, as well as Torvalds, is that the difficulty of debugging serves as a bulwark against over-complicated code.
These being tired and fighting exhaustion with exercise threads must be a dread to read for anybody who works hard physically.

But I'm in the same privileged or at least not working physically position and I found most correlation with number of tasks I'm focusing on.

If there are too many things at once or none of them stands out, I'm more likely to feel tired.

If I'm focusing on a specific thing associated with specific action with no other things on my mind, it seems to be getting done effortlessly with high energy state.
It's a complex issue and I'm not here to advocate one solution or another. However, there is important information that the public ought to be aware of
In Japan, I've known the term "Kokotto" to refer a ramekin vessel. Yeah, it's also a kind of french dish, though I don't think it's too commonly known in Japan.

As for the cut, I'd hardly call it a Japanese cutting technique.
Most of the PFAS do break down -- a half life of a few years. It's mostly PFOA that's of grave concern.
This is probably not a great reading of what you wrote, so I'm happy to be corrected, but this is what I get from your comment: humanity has discovered or invented beneficial uses for some compounds (like for example some of the vaccines that have been developed throughout history), so therefore we should presume the safety of every other novel use of a compound that comes along.

Thats not what you mean, right?
Realize that blockchains are not anonymous and that you are putting your financial history on a public ledger for anyone to view and abuse...

Are you aware of this? If not, you might consider googling "molly white blockchain abuse"
A single Bitcoin transaction uses more energy than an Argentine family goes through in a year. As bad as the IMF is the cure you're proposing is worse than the sickness.

Have open banking standards. Implement proper consumer finance regulations. Fight against corporate capture of government. You aren't going to bootstrap human liberty — power concedes nothing without a demand.
A lot of it was mercifully stuff like alt.tv.x-files. It was great.
Lets stop using PFAS if its raining down on us.
I'd say this is the biggest issue with PFAS and PFAS-likes. PTFE-free doesn't mean anything useful.
You haven't tried the vast majority of fruits, veggies, meats, fishes out there and I'm sure you don't feel like you're life is miserable because of it
It's alluded to in the article, but the energy extraction from combustion in power plants is also more efficient than the combustion engine in your car (almost double in the case of natural gas using combined cycle).
If they occur in nature, esp. in food, our bodies have had time to adapt to them, so that's a distraction. But even restricted to "man-made chemicals" (that can get into our bloodstream and interact with our cellular biology) it's still an enormous class of substances that it's silly to treat as dangerous-until- proven-otherwise - our scientific understanding is a little more advanced than that.
The EPA’s new recommendation is still not low enough. You realize there is a some cause to panic right? We can’t fish in our streams and rivers, can’t drink rainwater, can’t raise domestic animals without them being full of heavy metals etc. We’ve ruined the basics and this isn’t hyperbole anymore.
I just had to (reluctantly) install Zoom on my freshly formatted MBP for some classes I'm in. The web client wasn't that reliable for me. Unless I'm totally missing something here, it let me install as non-root. The installer asked me if I wanted to install for all users or just for me. I chose just for me and it never asked for an admin password and installed to the Applications folder under my user and not the main Applications folder. There doesn't seem to be any daemons or background processes running when the application isn't open.

edit: meant this in response to some comments below about Zoom requiring admin access to install on macOS
It is extremely naive to think that ServiceNow would be able to steal a feature from e.g. the PM part of GitLab. The reason why their products are even more obnoxious than paper bureaucracy is definitely not that noone ever told them what they are doing wrong. Same applies for MSFT, Oracle and as of recently Google and Facebook too.
With all due respect, that feels like a dodge. I decided to look at the result data for this survey [1]. I was unsurprised to find, in a simple skim of only the first survey, at least 2 comments mentioning this issue we're discussing. Asking an e.g. creationist "True/False The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old." and "True/False Scientists claim that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old." are questions that are going to get very different answers. One measures assent with consensus, one measures knowledge of it. At least 2 people actually manually typing the issue out in a relatively small sample (for this sort of arbitrary specificity) means this is an extremely significant issue.

My argument, in the most specific form, is that I do not believe this study measures, or was intended to measure, what the authors' claim it does. This issue is quite subtle, but I'm inclined to believe in malice over incompetence when these authors have spent years working these numbers [2]. The current study is a rehash of a study they did two years ago. The max assent group does indeed demonstrate reduced knowledge / increased self perceived knowledge. And there are demographic biases abounds. The desired trend varies by an order of magnitude in countries outside the US.

So this study took the most extreme sample from a subpopulation they were already familiar with the results of, stripped out the subpopulation of that subpopulation which challenged their hypothesis, added in a number of questions that were more likely to result in noise than anything else (the population of those taking surveys for pennies a piece on Amazon Turk, that can explain the difference between e.g. UVA and UVB radiation is certainly near zero so true/false just gives you noise and randomness), and then published. Another fun sample bias: Literally every single person who took fewer than 3 minutes to complete the survey (again based on survey 1) and bothered to fill in some (generally random) answers indicated max dissent. An interesting issue in itself, but a further problem in this study given relatively few people indicated max dissent, so they're measuring people literally racing through the survey for their $0.85 likely without reading it beyond looking for the "Please select #2 as the answer to this question." questions.

[1] - https://osf.io/x23c8/?view_only=29a92a9a707547149f210e5bf76a...

[2] - https://osf.io/t82j3/
I don't see the difference? Like if the program was providing value, perhaps in the form of retention, then the value exceeds the loss.

They must have data that their loyalty program did not improve retention to justify the costs to run the program or (as others pointed out) they must see that force loyal customers to Uber One will increase their revenue/more.
What’s an application that needs to be super small, but doesn’t risk getting lead into people’s bloodstream and the environment? I can’t think of many…
No, nuclear gets free state insurance and free waste disposal (as well as a bunch of other subsidies). This is why everyone laughs when country claim their nuclear programs are "peaceful power generation projects".
Fable for F# is working on something like that.

a link: https://fable.io/blog/2022/2022-06-06-Snake_Island_alpha.htm...
I don't think so. That's maybe 10-15 years ago, but currently (according to this: https://benesse.jp/juken/202105/20210501-1.html, a survey made just 2021), a programmer is the 3rd, and a system engineer is the 4th highest desired occupation among Japanese high-schoolers, after a nurse and a local government official.
> Better yet if several of them take a “freemium” approach and students/hobbyists/freelancers are able to use a polished, user-friendly packaging of this incredible CAD technology for free (as in beer).

This was pretty much Fusion 360’s approach. These unsustainable businesses models inevitably lead to a bait and switch.

The software you link to is nice but BIM is not CAD/CAM.
That is almost certainly true. People were fined, put in stocks, had body parts cut off--or executed. Yes, they'd probably be shocked at how many people are imprisoned today but likely mostly because they'd consider it a very inefficient use of resources given the much cheaper ways to punish people.
Regarding mental energy - when I'm in an "everything is draining" state I consider that a depressive episode. When not in one of those, there are hobbies I find rewarding and stimulating (some even physical-energy-producing, like eating or drinking coffee). Or it can even be as simple/"idle" as "that was a fun run through Returnal, I feel pumped up."
Would love to see a macOS build of NetSurf. It's supported in theory but there's nobody doing builds currently so it probably requires a bit of finagling to actually get done. I tried to do it myself but I just wasn't smart enough.
I've been involved with the software side at a few companies producing autonomous vehicles and took a look at SSG-39 to see how much better nuke standards are. They're pretty dang similar to automotive standards (UL4600, SOTIF, etc). The difference is in the regulatory environment and execution. Automotive software is not well-regulated and most OEMs don't think either the software or the people that produce it are worth investing in. I regularly have disagreements with systems folks about whether we should focus on actual sources of quality issues like memory safety or the checklist items that regulators are going to look at like whether the compiler is verified.
Not sure why I'd want to use this, presuming I was already happy with python. Especially now that python's type hinting is more mature. Looking through the feature set the main thing it seems to provide is a type system, but with a syntax I don't like as much as python's type hinting.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but that’s actually kind of cool!
Not quite that long, but the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK did a week-long trip one one of the coastal shipping routes in the nortern part of the country. Might be of interest for you. I know they used to offer the whole thing as a torrent, but it can also be found here:
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt
This is in place via EU-ETS:
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/eu-emissions-trading-sy...
Small shoutout to https://github.com/halo/LinkLiar

> This is an intuitive macOS status menu application written in Swift to help you spoof the MAC addresses of your Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces.
> So, say the property is worth 1mil$, and you pay 1% tax. That's 10k. You charge 3k rent. The taxman makes the tax 4%, now you have to pay 40k. You decide to pass 30k to the renter. So now they pay 36k+30k rent per year. 4x tax, 2x rent.

The price of the property is based on the return that the landlord can return. This should be obvious.

If you increase the tax by 4x, the most likely result is the market value will drop from $1 million to something like $250k-500k. The renters will be paying the same value. The new owner will have the same ROI that the previous owner had. Just different buying price and lower return per rental.
out of curiosity, how big is the file?

EDIT: never mind, I see you answered this in another comment:

> The original film is around 10TB of mpeg2 1080p 25mbit/sec 25 frames per second.

> We later transcoded to h264, it now clocks in at about 2TB.
It's the easiest way to add convenient features without dealing with edge cases. Unfortunately, that also means convenient vulnerabilities.
Why is it so in vogue to be a doomer? Malthus, the original doomer, was wrong on just about all of his predictions. Most likely, we're wrong too. I mean, the planet survived like half a dozen mass extinction events, what makes you think it won't survive another one?

I just don't understand the "woe is me" nihilistic narrative so many intelligent people are deeply fond of. Recycle, turn off the lights, vote with your conscience. Get a wife, make some kids, live a happy life, try to make a positive difference in the world. It's not hard.
I was using Houdini when it was called Prisms on an SGI Irix machine. It is for 3D graphics and effects, not CAD or FEM/FEA. Autodesk Fusion is for creating 3D geometry and testing your design with an FEA analysis. Houdini uses a physics engine for graphics, not engineering results or stress analysis. Autodesk have now made the FEA simulation portion fee and cloud-based, when it was free before if you ran it locally on your computer. I have Houdini installed for fun, but I also use Blender (since 2000). Two different uses entirely between Houdini and Autodesk Fusion 360.
Please describe how you achieved the color config.
Eh, Musk has plenty of kids :)))
Do "you" identify with one entity, as is often reported among tulpamancers, or do "you" stand apart from them all? When you hear one or another of your internal voices, or become aware of an entity's thoughts, is it from the perspective of another, perhaps depersonalized agent observing the rest? Do "you" have equal access to all entities or is it more accurate to think of yourself as one among them with a privileged perspective?

Thanks in advance for any insight you might be willing to provide. I hope these questions are not too invasive, your comment is of great interest to me.
People are made of chemicals... and they are bad... so should we remove the chemicals from them?

I mean it's snark, but it's as legitimate as "if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes" and you hear that all the time.
I wouldn't be too quick to lay the blame at mesitylene yet. I'm still seeing conflicting reports: https://www.dw.com/en/mysterious-mass-fish-kill-in-oder-rive...

> At the time, the Lower Silesia Water Authority based in the nearby Polish city of Wroclaw detected a toxic substance in two locations on the Oder that is likely the solvent mesitylene, which is known to have a toxic effect on fish. However, subsequent tests have shown no trace of the substance.
Flutter's good. I learnt mobile development and its fundamentals through it in a very short time. It's an intuitive framework and well sustained, and I've seen no issue with my apps in production yet
You can also get shocked by rubbing your feet on carpet and touching a doorknob. Are those also unsafe? Should we be panicking about our house? You’ve jumped to a wild and accusatory conclusion.
> Taxes have absolutely no effect on what the renter pays.

Of course taxes have an effect on the rent price.

If the property tax is very low and the market price rent for that unit is very high, you're right, the owner will charge the high price and pocket the difference.

But the reverse is obviously not true. If the property tax is quadrupled (as per OP proposal) and now the rent no longer covers the ownership costs there are only two possible outcomes: the rent goes up to cover the costs, or, if nobody is willing to pay the new higher rent the owner sells the property off to someone who wants to live in it instead of renting.

The latter is good if we want to incentivize home ownership for everyone. But it does take a former rental unit off the rental market, so if there are people hoping to rent a place, it's bad.
The problem is that (a) you can't prove something safe, you can merely fail to find harm; and (b) literally everything is a chemical, often it already exists in some form and is used for some purposes, and we reuse it for something else at a larger scale... at large enough scales basically anything is dangerous.
> Please do some research before spouting off oil and coal company propaganda.

Oh, I did. I could share various German expert studies which all come to the same conclusion: A combustion engine car has a much better energy efficiency before it is assembled and hits the road. Some even say that the electric car needs to run 150,000-235,000km to offset for the production, numbers vary here, of course.
How is it possible that he has never burned out before?? Doesn't sound human to me
The fireproofing chemical sprayed on fabrics for sheets upholstery etc since the 1970s in the US is and has been a known forever chemical but also very profitable so the mfr basically used the tobacco industry strategy for 20+ years at which point its in everyone's bodies for the rest of their lives. [1]

The book was published over a decade ago, so news travels slowly sometimes, even to regulators.

[1] Slow Death By Rubber Duck https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Rubber-Duck-Everyday/dp/15...
Why no alcohol?
Why is it silent? Was a camera with an acceptable microphone too expensive/difficult to maintain?

The article makes a big deal out of finally seeing a person. Is that person aware of the movie?

Sounds like an interesting film, thanks for answering questions about it.
So far we have chosen not to because we consider the core of the work to be the continuous length of the film. A torrent would enable timelapses and short versions. But we will think about it.
The problem is we're effectively using the public as a guinea pig. Then when lots of issues are detected, the specific chemicals used are banned. Then industry quickly replaces it with a very similar compound(see e.g Bisphenol A being replaced with Bisphenol S and F in "BPA free plastics" even though it's not known that they are safer) which is likely to have similar problems, but not proven to yet, kicking the can down the road.

Some possible regulations come to mind. For instance, maybe a ban or very strict regulations on the widespread use of compounds like PFAS that have no known biological or other natural path of degradation. Because it's become very clear that such compounds are inevitably going to end up spread all over global ecosystems.

Edit: So I did some more research. Not only are BPS and BPF not known to be safer, they are already known to have many of the same problems as BPA. To make things worse BPS and possibly BPF are even less degradable than BPA. So they may even be worse. This is not even a little surprising. Their structure is identical except for the linkage between the phenol groups. From pharmacology it's well known that highly similar structures tend to have similar pharmacodynamic properties. So they're not even remotely likely to have been good replacements before the growing mountain of evidence to the contrary appeared. Clearly this blatantly irresponsible behaviour from industry needs to be stopped.
That’s really, really reaching. An ICE Camry weighs 3500lbs, a Model 3 weighs 4000lbs. You’re not even right.
"Taking one seat at the theater" is something any single family owner-occupier could learn from:

- Houses are way bigger than they need to be

- Their footprints are enlarged further by useless setbacks and lawns

- A single household monopolizes this footprint for the entire vertical dimension
That would presumably be part of right to repair.
>> Given that forks and knives are not the common utensils of the Asian dining table

Asia is a big umbrella, my friend. (You can Google for how many countries.) You’d be surprised to know there are Asian countries that went from hands to spoon-and-fork hundreds of years ago and never knew chopsticks. But of course this notion is not exotic enough.