skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You’re arguing for a status quo

>No one else commenting defending microplastics like you are here talking like this is all okay.

I'm really not. In the comment you replied to, I pointed out:

1. why people why might buy bottled water/sugar water

2. why microplastic warning labels on bottled water might be flawed

The first is a explanation of why people drink bottled water, and isn't a defense of anything. I suppose the latter is "arguing for a status quo" in the sense that it's a suggestion to move away from the status quo, and I oppose it, but you need to have a really polarized worldview to think that opposing a policy suggestion because it's bad means I think "this is all okay", or that I'm a shill for the opposite side (as your thinly veiled comments imply). For instance, if someone's suggesting that we solve the housing crisis in the US by giving everybody $1M, and I argue against that by pointing out that giving $1M in helicopter money might be a bad idea, it doesn't mean I think the housing situation "is all okay", nor does it mean I'm a shill for landlords.
> their family lawyer arguing that they shouldn't have this incident on their student record because it occurred outside of school

"The only reason you know most of the people you did this to is... drum roll... because you are at the same school"
everything by fool and scholar has been very immersive and enjoyable
Show HN: I solved the world climate and energy problems
It’s a codified liberal democracy, as opposed to aristocracy, oligarchy, or autocracy.

You may be confusing democracy with electoral democracy.
China imports 80% of their oil, IIRC it's the bulk of their imports
I was hoping for more details on the seasoning process.
I tried completely de-Googled Android – here's what happened
If they don’t budge and the contract wording is clearly taking ownership of your personal work, then I think you made the right choice, FWIW. My recommendation is spend a few bucks and have an employment lawyer review stuff like that. Any employer is very likely to push back on individuals, but will probably quickly back down and agree if you bring a lawyer; it tends to send a signal of seriousness. But yeah, I agree it’s a red flag if the legalese and the informal “intention” don’t seem to match.
Legally yes, with legal precedent set in court. Morally depends on your perspective. Some people advocate for privacy, others advocate for surveillance.
Then it's time to escalate.

If the "speaking softly" isn't working, it's time for the stick.

My aunt had an exchange student in her care. At some point there was an altercation and a boy at school slapped the (female) exchange student.

School didn't want to do anything about it, was hemming and hawing.

So my aunt phoned the boys mother and explained the situation - and was met with a "well I can't do anything".

My aunt simply replied "Well I can have her at the police station this afternoon and file a report, with photos of her bruises. After that I'm going to call my lawyer."

Amazingly, the parent of the troublesome student suddenly found the ability to do something!

Speaking softly only works of you're willing to use the stick.
I love that the creator of one of the most popular Lisps today wrote a book about programming in Java.
No mention of PuTTY?
Like Berlin and Munich and Prague and Düsseldorf and Warsaw and Amsterdam and The Hague. I lived there, without a car. I rented a few times when not on train or flight out of town.
It's not for every city, though switch out trams for busses (Stockholm) and it could work in many places.
> no idea why you'd think so

You have no idea why Id think the average person living in the west right now is dealing with significantly less problems than people living in a country that is experiencing full scale economic collapse?

Really? I think it is pretty self evident that most people living in the west are dealing with much smaller problems than people living in places like Lebanon right now.

If someone is unable to see this pretty basic fact, that their lives are likely much better than the people experiencing full scale economic collapse, then I guess that privilege is stronger than I expected.
We used to call this “doing the least amount you have to do to get by”. And it is what I did in high school - kinda before I learned that having pride in what you do - no matter what that is - is essential to your success and happiness.

I wish these folks the best in figuring that out that hard way.
Buddy you had every ability to half ass that on-call and no one would have faulted you for it and it would have resulted in the corporation realizing they needed to harden that duty better.
Australia? MS clinics around the country are free under Medicare, as is treatment. My friend is receiving twice annual infusions of Ocrelizumab. It literally costs them nothing.

I mean you can argue that Australia is a rich country, but it’s available to any citizen regardless of wealth.
I recently bought a cast iron pizza pan (https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/lodge-bakeware-pizz...) after my pizza stone broke. I had a lot of trouble transferring the dough to the stone without messing it up, but it's easy with the cast iron. You can take the pan out of the oven when it is hot, which makes it much easier than using the stone.

I preheat the pan in the oven, pull it out, transfer the dough to the stone, and put on the toppings. The pan stays hot, so the dough starts cooking while I prepare the pie. Then after cooking for 6 minutes in the oven, I can take the pizza out of the oven again, put on the cheese, and cook for a few more minutes to melt.

The cast iron is also super easy to clean, unlike the stone, which was pretty much impossible to get fully clean. After it cools, I rinse it off and coat with a thin layer of oil. Then it's ready for the next use.
PFAS always remind me about how we as a species knew about the toxicity of lead for very long, yet still decided to blast it all over the environment for decades [0]

Also makes me wonder how much similar hubris exists with other topics; Afaik to this day there is still no medical scientific consensus weather damage from radiation is actually cumulative or not.

By now we have myriads of other compounding factors, particularly for cancer, that make it increasingly difficult to filter the actual signal, of what causes these issues, from all the environmental "noise" we keep creating by changing our one and only habitat in such massive, and lasting, ways.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#History
If it were true that somehow a crypto currency could hold its own in a collapsing economy surely it would just lead to massive queues/shortages? If the economy isn't producing enough it really doesn't matter what sort of currency you use, it's gonna be bad for almost everyone. It may make some difference in terms of foreign debt.
Is it just me who thinks it would be relatively easy to notice someone intentionally following you at the same pace and distance on a given walking route through your home city? Stop to look at the flowers a few times and notice that they always stop at the same time as well...
Also should have added that the really revolutionary thing that Facebook did was to get people to put their OWN NAMES on the internet. Before that one could hide behind or fruitfully utilise usernames...now people are arrested for trolling on Twitter, because they're using their own bloody names. This would have been basically unimaginable in the early days, yet Zuckerberg managed to legitimise it.
Did you try to search Lebanon on localcryptos or localbitcoins? The former has no listings which transact in LBP, only one which requires Western Union (USD).

And the latter has no listings at all in Lebanon.
The school is not fit to play the role of police. Outside of school grounds they have no power.

So if the issue is outside school, then the school is not the authority.

Is it bullying as in being mean or is it threats of violence? One of those is a crime that you can bring to police, the other is why you have a block button.
It's not all Prolog, but it is all Alice: "Compared to What?: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms" by Gregory J. E. Rawlins
> If the material is scare and valuable, it isn’t going to be wasted.

But if the material is mixed with other materials, making recycling difficult and expensive to do, maybe it won't.

After all, Li-ion battery recycling is pretty bad right now, and there's plenty of Li-ion batteries being disposed of today.

5% of disposed Li-ion batteries are recycled right now. Sure, that number will improve in the future, but by how much? Even 200% to 300% improvement would be terrible in absolute terms. And its not like there's a singular kind of Li-ion battery, each Li-ion cell has its own chemistry, some are Cobalt based, others are Nickle based, others are Iron based.

Has there ever been a recycling process that worked when chemicals were so mixed up together? Are there any companies even trying to solve the problem? Or are you trusting blind faith that the problem will be solved without any actual evidence?
We changed the URL from https://www.unilad.com/news/man-robbed-bank-money-lebanon-20... to one that has more substantial reporting. I'll keep the original (edited) headline to preserve context for some of the context.

Other relevant links:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/armed-man-demandin...

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-lebanon-beirut-21513b...

(Thanks to the user who emailed this info!)
Does this happen to you often??
Yes, I lived near there and frequently stayed there. It was a pretty neat place. I met a lot of interesting people. I haven’t been back for almost a decade.
Or you can memorize 12 words. Not saying this should be the common practice or that everyone should do it, but having the ability to store your wealth in your mind is useful.
If they search my mobile device, they will deal with police and the court system. Whether the phone is in my posession or my kids is irrelevant.
Unwittingly? https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/sierra-club-admits-taki...
> We have solved a ton of environmental problems in my lifetime.

While creating a ton of new ones, which is sadly in the nature of most solutions; They tend to create new problems.

The question is how much "environmental capital" do we have left trying to figure out something actually long-term sustainable.
> 3) you also "use two fingers" (pinch or spread) to adjust zoom

personally I find it convenient that that I can control 3 parameters (x axis, y axis, and zoom %) with two fingers (left finger position, right finger position, distance between them)
Remember that no matter what you do one day you will die. And the few people who will remember you will also one day die. Given that, what is most important to you in your life?
Also look out for lead and cadmium in Le Creuset pans.

https://tamararubin.com/2022/04/le-creuset-overview/
> Stainless steel has better heat retention and distribution

I could be wrong, but I thought that cast iron has higher thermal conductivity (53 w/mK - watts per meter-Kelvin) then stainless steel (14 w/mK). Both are relatively poor thermal conductors compared to aluminum, however (>200 w/mK).
Forget the word "privacy" then. The Constitution does explicitly give you the right to be secure against unreasonable searches, and this is definitely an unreasonable search.
its your choice to play mother teresa, however.

edit: honesty is important. call it as you see it. if that doesnt work: join em or walk
So this is some very inaccurate statement, so lets clear up a few thing for those people that are not informed.

> It also needs rare earth metals which are mined by workers living the life of slaves.

First off, 'rare metal' is a specific group of metals that don't have much use in batteries. Batteries are made from Nickel, Manganese, Cobalt, Aluminum, Cooper, Lithium and Graphite. Non of these are 'Rare Earth' Metals.

Of course EV do use Rare Earth Metals but so do ICE cars, the difference is not actually that large. EV Motors have some more Rare Earth then would be found in ICE cars but its hardly a difference worth talking about much.

What you are referring to is like Cobalt mining. Cobalt mining is mostly done in the Congo and so of course has issues with working conditions and child labor. For the most part, about 80% of Cobalt is actually mined in traditional strip mining and workers there are very comparable to workers in all other types of industrial mining. Most large EV companies pretty much exclusively buy from the large mining operations.

The bad conditions, specially for children, come in in about the rest of the 20%, what is usually called artisanal mining operations. These are often private mines and the workers are not slave, they 'own' the mines but of course they are still poor and live in bad conditions and children working there is of course bad. But even there, its not universally the case, there are large efforts done to try to track those mines and reward those that have good conditions and block the others. Th

The problem is, there is a huge intensive for those mined materials to find a way into the supply chain. And since all these materials get refined in China its hard to verify.

But what people don't tell you, is that oil manufacturing also uses a large quantity of cobalt. So the idea that somehow EV are uniquely bad makes no sense if you look at it that way.

In addition, pretty much every manufacture is pushing out cobalt even from high nickel batteries. And of course LFP batteries that will make up over 50% of the market in the next decade don't use cobalt. Neither do next generation batteries like Sodium.

> But actually building all its parts not only consumes way more energy compared to combustion cars.

While this is true now, this is mostly because of the less mature supply chain. Its not inherently the case. If you started fresh building up a ICE supply chain it would suffer from many of the same problems.

A Tesla made in Texas for example will have almost everything in one building and will likely be far more efficient then many ICE vehicles.

But it just takes time for the industry as a whole to optimize the whole supply-chain end to end.

So its really not a good argument against EV. This will automatically solve itself as you scale.

And even if it uses 20% more CO2 during manufacture, over the lifetime its still dramatically less CO2. And arguably just as important, the emissions that ICE cars blow into cities is horribly for the health of people and specially children.
> [...] like blockchain is now?

Hard to take the question seriously when it's such a loaded question.

Maybe don't state a hypothesis as a fact in the question.
The US is a strong federation of states, not a unitary state. Our presidential election has only a very tiny relevance to the laws passed at the federal level.

The government that most affects Americans day to day life are their state governments, many of which even allow for direct referendums.. of which the US has had thousands of. They are happening all the time, although they are usually local in interest and you usually won’t see them in our national news… unless they are particularly noteworthy:

Maybe you might remember the recent news of the Kansas referendum on abortion? Can’t get any more democratic than that.

(And by the way, several US states approved women’s suffrage before any country did.)
Making Ethanol from corn production seems terrible though IMHO. It increases the cost of food stuffs even outside the US from what I've read since most of its highly subsidized which unbalances prices. Switchgrass could be better.. Maybe even better would be some kinda kelp/saltwater plant since it'd not consume freshwater which is ever more a valuable commodity.
This is a rip-off of freelancer Karin Kirk's original article[0] on Yale Climate Connections. Her primary sources in that article are federal agency websites[1-4] and address the points of mass energy production & vehicle consumption by type. And going solely by that math, it's a slam-dunk.

The problem--same as with any other modern system--is that there are far more variables to consider to arrive at total system-wide costs, many of these are "trust me" trade secrets of various manufacturers, and the feds themselves (thanks to regulatory capture) have also been known to fudge numbers in the favor of one private interest over another, so even those numbers aren't above cross-examination.

This is not a pro or anti EV post as much as a humility one. I see a bunch of web developers nerd-sniping each other over personal recollections of industry PR (everthing in the media, pro or con, is somebody's PR, BTW).

Ultimately, the proof is in the pudding. TCO is going to be a fairly good approximation of overall system-wide efficiency. Companies can only loss-lead for so long before going bankrupt, and they can only externalize costs for so long before being sued into oblivion. If EVs truly are this superior, nothing is going to stop them.

[0]https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/08/electrifying-tran...
[1]https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
[2]https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=9&f=A&s=...
[3]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=107&t=3
[4]https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_02.html
The problem with income inequality is that the people at the top are actively stealing money from everyone else. Elon isn't out there building rockets. He just gets the rockets that other people made automatically and for free. This is the case with literally every billionaire. So, yeah, I'm envious. I'd like my stuff back.
That and I think I've read somewhere Bryan Cantrill saying they want to move from Twitter Spaces to something else, so for now it's finished, and they're going to make another thing, similar to how they dropped On The Metal. I may be mistaken though, since I can't find it now. Edited the post to clarify my uncertainty.
If it’s simply offline you want, you can install https://www.kiwix.org/ and use it to download, search, and read, an archive of the entire Arch Wiki.
If the school suspected bullying why wouldn’t they get the parents involved and ask them to look through the phone. I mean this isn’t a case where a kid came to a teacher and asked them for help right? I understand the case of a school helping a student without a parents consent if the student initiated the interaction, it seems unreasonable if it’s the other way around.
As the document shows, many instances of schools searching students' mobile devices without a warrant have been shown to be constitutional in appellate courts.
I'm very familiar with the basic details of the Fourier Transform, Nyquist Theorem, etc etc. I was taught how to build a DAC from discrete components in University, and I've read up on the multiple types of DAC. And I still disagree over this minor point of wording - I still don't think it makes any sense.

But honestly, it really doesn't matter. You clearly know what you're talking about, wording or not, and I understand your argument and think it's sound, so no further nitpicking from me :)
And the comparable GMC Hummer EV is 9,063 lbs, 2,923 pounds of which are batteries.

> The metals thing is a problem the markets will solve because the tech is largely solved.

The metals thing comes from Russia (nickle) and Congo (Cobalt), and Argentina/China (Lithium).

The steel thing is *already* solved, with 88% of USA's steel being composed of recycled steel. You're hoping that some magic recycling process spins up over the next years to make Lithium sustainable, when it clearly isn't right now.
> This short window is pretty much the only time that "isomorphic" really applied to NPM

Huh? Most npm modules still work fine in both browser and native contexts. Bundlers generally support CJS modules, and modern npm modules can use esm just fine too if you set the "type": "module" field in package.json.

Even heavily browser based libraries like react usually work fine from nodejs too, to make server side rendering easier.

Isomorphic npm modules should still be the default.

I'll have to give deno a try. Node has increasingly diverged from the browser, and it causes real headaches.
They would have to get permission to move the people living in tents.
Even if current power generation for the grid isn't optimal (or clean), the move to EVs is the only way to allow for a cleaner system to work at all. That just isn't possible with ICE cars.
I love HIBT. I’ve listened to 400+ episodes and regularly have to stop listening because I’m so motivated.
Because it should be their choice.
Okay, but that's in the context of the state which can use its monopoly on violence to enforce such a redistribution. How might that work in private organizations? If you think governments should get involved, what do you think of the side effects? Such redistribution is effectively a tax on the top performers and a subsidy for the bottom performers. A popular saying is that "you get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax". Why should we encourage more people into selling intimate pictures of themselves? Is that a policy that governments should really be pushing? You could argue onlyfan producers have some duty to their community or whatever, but they already pay income taxes. Why must they face additional redistribution compared to lawyers or programmers?
I think existing QR Code readers have not been support rMQR yet because this is in very early stage. I am waiting for a release of an rMQR reader.
The least everyone can do to not get fired is, quite often, absolutely nothing.

If nobody does anything, nothing is delivered and nobody gets paid.

If you don't want to work, don't take a job.
Yah its a bummer when "tribalism" wins out over consistent ideals (e.g. the pro-business and US manufacturing party suddenly dislikes those things).
And EVs in cold climates heat the batteries.
Would consider an assassin service blameless because government regulation was good enough.

While good regulations are good, companies are made of people, and the people need to act like it
I wonder if your family feels similarly
Medicine is a fucking miracle. Respect for the whole supply chain.
I think ideally we'd have shared information (open source hardware designs) and distributed manufacturing. This would be a bit more robust, and avoid shipping, while making repair and recycling a lot easier.
I mean LL Cool L sang “I’m going back to Cali“ like 30 years ago
Heya, yeah I'm keen to understand your thoughts on this.
This to the very extent, is still very valuable for me to a personal level. However I can understand why people would divert away from it, people have grown apathy for comprehensive and deep heap of information and want "quick" low quality "fixes" for their problems. Part of the reason why "googling" is so popular and the index of information is represented in terms of SEO while still questionable on the quality of information and reliability yielded by SEs like google.
Good explanation of editing in action.
That would indicate either a problem in the population under discussion, or a problem with the diagnostic criteria.
I came here to recommend Gonick - you beat me to it.

I'll add that really ALL of his 'Cartoon' books are worth a read.
Kinda. Water has a skin effect where at the surface it doesn't move, only acts as a lubricant of sorts for water in the middle of the pipe
And of course the only reason ethonal is even remotely competitive is that is was essentially forced into production and subsidies. Its not actually a viable solution if you wanted to transition 10s of millions of vehicles onto it. You would have to include both methanol and ethanol.

I would actually have been a fan of that solution if it was the 90s, but its time has come and gone.

Also, you realize you are still producing harmful emissions when driving that car threw a city right?

Cobalt can easily be mined in North America, there is no reason it has to come from Cobalt. If that is the issue, the solution is not to drive around with ethanol.