skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your stance.

While emerging evidence should be used to change guidelines, we should not be at the mercy of corporations wishing to increase their profit margins with unknown chemicals.

You don't have to work with what you have only just invented and don't understand.

You're talking about bottles and pans. We have managed with bottles and pans for a thousand years before pfas.
Common Lisp OpenGL programming tutorial #12 – Animation and Hierarchies
>We also don't want to foster a "chemicals are bad" attitude more than it already exists.

I dunno, I kinda think we do want to foster that.
We secretly agree and aren't sure why it's faster to do two queries, but it measurably is. We're going to try some of the suggestions littered in this conversation and will report back, this time with some EXPLAIN output. We appreciate the suggestions and theories.
Ozone damaging refrigerants are still a huge issue. China has been releasing a lot of them. We dumped all the DDT in the ocean. This stuff isn't solved at all. Things don't go away, there's no magic wand to disappear all our horrible choices...
Hey, many apologies, I in no way meant to conflate DID with schizophrenia. I only meant to mention DID in passing - the following sentences were only meant to apply to schizophrenia. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm sorry for what you went through, and if you feel my post misrepresented you.

Edit: I've modified the article a bit to hopefully make this clearer.
They say that I'm against progress when I say that I'm contrary to all this new things that are adding to cars since they are dangerous. And this article proves my point of view, if who made the software used publicly available encryption keys (one that knows what it's doing knows that to generate them with openssl you take 1 second) how can that software be trusted?

To me self-driving car and all that amount of stuff is simply dangerous, what if someone hacks a million of self-driving cars? What damage can he do? A disaster, worse than hacking a nuclear power plant... and I said coding standard for this kind of vehicle is not minimally comparable to the one of nuclear power plants. We are talking about people that till yesterday did program the offline car radio software that now are programming software that can take the control of the vehicle.
Non-issue? The hole in the ozone layer still exists today.
This isn't necessarily true for aquaponic/hydroponic crops, but I'm not sure how much of a percentage of food supply that makes up.
> If most of a city was zoned to allow up to multi residential highrises rather than most of a city being zoned for single family

The problem with this is the only entities with the financial power to build such buildings are large developers and corporate landlords. That leads to either high rents or high HOA fees. We need some way to pool prospective homeowners together to build this kind of high-density housing. Because otherwise we’re trading one problem for another and still failing to make home ownership affordable.
> Not too different though, looking at how the Baltic states have developed when given the choice and chance.

The Baltic states were gobbled up by the Soviet Union during WWII, and accrued significant Russian minorities during the Cold War, but they are culturally and ethnically distinct from Russia, with their own languages and histories going back centuries (just check out the Grand Duchy of Lithuania).
It’s very difficult (if not impossible) to prove chemicals are safe. All regulatory bodies can really do is prove that something is not safe.
I don't know if there's been a good example of an actually non-capitalist country yet. I'm not a historian, but all examples I can think of have a small class of people owning the means of production. They aren't always the bourgeoisie but sometimes a political elite or dictator's following.

What I can say is that on a more local scale, the non-capitalist systems I've had experience with have been much more pleasant than the ones where a small set of people held most of the power over production.
I think you over-simplify the point a bit:purely intellectual considerations are still useful, be it Occam’s razor or a bias towards simplicity. I think I agree with the author in that non-empirical factors are useless for verification. You’d think that this should be obvious, but apparently not (this article is part of some continuous intellectual guerilla warfare around string theory*). OTOH, they are still useful when building or adjusting a theory.

This is really obvious when reading Einstein: relativity was verified a posteriori, but before then there were other aspects that made it seem right (simplicity, elegance, the ability to combine several apparently incompatible theories, etc). It certainly was not verified in 1905, when the paper on special relativity was published.

To take your example, arguing is fine, but the whole angel discussion should be proven empirically to be of any use. When we realise that it could not be proven, then it stops being science.

* with the author Carlo Rovelli arguing against string theory, being one of the authors of the quantum loop gravitation theory which also aims at unifying quantum mechanics and gravitation. He is a great scientific vulgarisation writer as well.
Well either it does not contain PFAS but used PFAS in the manufacturing process thus harming the environment anyway.

Or it used some other long fluoropolymer with a similar biological effect as PTFE but can claim to be "PTFE free" because on paper no PTFE was used.
Alternative: You’ve never eaten a banana because they don’t grow in Europe. How does this measure in the absurdity scale?
Surely that can be better explained by the European countries being fatally weakened by WWII (there were plenty of European conflicts after WWI), which allowed the US and Soviet Union to become the two uncontested hegemons? They very much did not want their European buffer zones to reduce their effectiveness by squandering military resources on infighting, so they enforced that their militaries remain small and, more importantly, dedicated only to defense (while remaining available for the imperial adventure of the hegemons). Both the Soviet Union and especially the US (being the prototypical ocean empire) have found plenty of excuses to get involved with war with an eye to their own benefit. Meanwhile, the European militaries have rotted to the point where most barely have any weapons to send to Ukraine. (Eastern Europe, not being under the thumb of the US for as long and being closer to Russia, has retained a stronger military.)
The problem isn’t capitalism; it’s the imperfection of humanity. No economic system in history has eliminated waste. The only industrialized alternative to capitalism was notoriously even more wasteful.

Price systems work by simplifying and transmitting information relevant to production and consumption decisions. If the price goes up, consumers who can go without the thing can stop buying it and producers who can make more of the thing can start making it, and they each have the incentive to do so.

When it comes to externalities with the environment, these can be incorporated into the price system. That’s how a carbon tax would work. It turns out that the intuitions of would-be central planners are often completely wrong.

The truth is, lots of people do ask themselves if it’s really worth it to ship bananas from Latin America to Europe. They work for the fruit company and their decision is based on the costs and benefits. If there are costs that they aren’t considering, then the solution is to incorporate those costs into the price system, not to have some banana commissar decree that oceanic banana shipping is banned because, in his enlightened gut feeling, it’s “absurd”.
Think of these questions less as interrogative orders and more as discussion points / negotiations. I agree that the latter two need to be deployed wisely, sensitive to context and frequency.
That's a quaint view of reality. Cryptocurrency isn't saving anyone from dystopia.
If you cant build new plants, I dont think the solution is to run old plants forever until they fail. Shutting down old plants should have nothing to do with being pro/anti nuclear. Everything has a life span.
CGP Grey did a video essay on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
There are three remaining plants in Germany, all scheduled to shut down this year.

The Government doubled-down on it's decision claiming that the plants didn't have the resources to continue operations.

In a rare moment, the operators of the plants embarrassed the gov't by going public that they could indeed continue to run safely.

One thing to note is that the prime minister appointed the head German head of Greenpeace to the cabinet this year - who is ideologically against any form of nuclear power, regardless of safety.
I believe that there is a general tiredness affecting large parts of the population. Maybe some side effects of covid-19 / the vaccines or maybe it’s completely unrelated and more psychological in nature like lack of deeper meaning in most people's lives.

All I know is that you have to fight it. this tiredness doesn't go away with more rest. On the contrary, your self-esteem will take a hit and you will internalise your lack of power.
This is not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

We've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.
You can decide on its necessity for yourself by buying it or not. You are not entitled to make that choice for other people.
The whole problem here is that housing works not enough like cars and laptops and food, which you can just buy for a probably-not-disastrous portion of your income.

Housing production is far too centered in the opinions of "the community." Does the community even exist when it is not opposing housing? One wonders. Housing cares far too much about your identity and character. Whether it is qualifying for a mortgage, passing a co-op board interview, or cities and neighborhoods calibrating their codes to attract the "right kind of people" and keep out the "wrong kind of people." This neighborhood isn't for renters. This neighborhood isn't for tech workers. This neighborhood isn't for multigenerational families. This neighborhood isn't for transit riders or cyclists. Housing types that mere professionals could afford would be inconsistent with the character of this aristocratic community.

Shut up! My money's as green as yours. Take it. In exchange I get a place to live. If there are not enough then someone can come along and make more. It would be so much better if housing were dramatically more commodified than it is.
Crypto is basically where scam artists have gravitated to. It's too easy to scam people using crypto.

Let's do something about it.
But it was still higher than it ever had been in World history, and yet still did not prevent the Great War from breaking out. Why should we assume that this time economic interdependence is high enough to prevent a war?

Who knows how high it can go. Maybe in the early 22nd century someone will argue that economic interdependence before WW3 was nowhere near as they have it then...
Exactly! The burden of proof to prove that something is harmful somehow landed on the public, which allowed harmful things to continue to be in use for years (decades!) while things were litigated and all manner of disinformation was pushed out by industry. This should never have been allowed to be the case.

Slightly off topic: The recent movie starring Mark Ruffalo, Dark Water, is excellent. It covers PFAS and one lawyer’s fight to bring it to light. Very similar to the excellent “A Civil Action” starring John Travolta in the 90s or early 2000s (obligatory: the book is far better than the movie).
The other party puts forward a figleaf of caring to appease its climate-minded constituents, while actively doing the doing the dirty work in the interests of some of the largest polluters on this planet.
The Wikipedia article says testing found mesitylene to be the likely cause. So just another case of "improving capitalist efficiency" by turning economic costs into economic externalizes

If we actually made corporations pay to clean up their bs, I wonder how many years of "economic growth" would turn out to have been an illusion. The other day an article was posted here showing that, in Australia, backyard eggs have 5x the lead content of store-bought eggs due to pollution. Today 10% of all yearly deaths worldwide are caused by air pollution. Another article on the frontpage of HN today is about how rainwater even as far as in Antartica is not safe to drink due to PFAS. Even if you recycle, chances are the majority of your plastics end up in a landfill or the ocean

Imagine if we actually made these companies take into account the full lifecycle costs of their products. Styrofoam takes around a million years to naturally decompose. A styrofoam cup would probably cost thousands of dollars. Other plastics don't last as long, but you can imagine the "economic disaster" that would be caused by plastics suddenly costing in dollars what they cost in total environmental impact
Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now?
See title.
We had the film on Vimeo for a year but had to take it down due to the cost of Vimeo hosting.

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.
Right... As opposed to oil, which is mostly sourced from free democracies right?
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It still does mean more supply, so is beneficial for prices over a situation with less supply.

> We need some way to pool

That's e.g. a co-op, not exactly unusual concept to pay for housing construction at different scales.
Concussion is a trial by fire of discovering what is truly not taking up mental energy. In the acute phase you go from having 16+ hours of it per day to 10 minutes. The answer is pretty much just staring at a blank wall. Anything else is costly to a degree
Germany doesn’t allow separatism. Most other European nations don’t allow it too. Spain jailed Catalonia independence movement leaders for 9-13 years in 2017.
I find it strange that he takes for granted that activities should "give back energy", and that you have to be dead tired for that not to happen.

Personally, even when I have good energy, almost everything I do drains it and doesn't give it back, until I sleep to recharge.

Maybe this is the difference between highly motivated people and the rest of us, that they find it normal for activities to give back energy.
The plants are being shut down because of political concerns. From a technical POV they can keep running. Vattenfall was also forced to retire nuclear plants in Germany way ahead of schedule because of german politics a few years ago. That was stupid.
I'm being serious, and I do this when possible. My non-gardening relatives will sometimes even drop off a pile of unusable produce for such purposes when visiting.

Ideally, it's better not to overproduce and overbuy. But I'm suggesting making the best of a situation where the bananas can either go to the landfill or still be of some use.
Is that one so bad in its end use? I would imagine production byproducts would be the bigger issue for plumbing tape, which is effectively solid and used in non-abrasive applications.
Stuff like this always has unintended consequences. For example, if I inherit a house that I do not want to use as a primary residence and do not want to hold on to, I’d still get fucked over for 4x property taxes during the time it takes me to prepare the house for sale. You can’t write the rules with exceptions for every situation where you’d cause somebody unfair pain, because you can’t anticipate every such situation.
I think in your example it is more likely that infrastructure was really expensive back in the day. It was expensive to build dungeons. And often only prominent prisoners were locked up
Which, as bad as it is in general, shouldn't be that much of a problem since it is not in direct contact with water flow, being used to seal the joints.
You're using the engineering definition of operations. TFA is using it in the traditional, business sense of the word. Organizational structure, decision making processes, goal setting, workflow optimization, etc. Think: all the things a COO would be responsible for.
Actually we did not create this, its made out of 2 minute clips we hosted on our web page a few years back. The original film has no sound.
Eat locally grown food?
Just use crimped fittings or hemp.
[Pardon me if I don't have a lot of respect for economists and their crackpot theories (remember 2008? What about the current inflation generated by printing money like there is no to more?)]

There are at least two problems with your logic: if you take all the land you can make the claim about the elasticity of supply, but not all land is created equal. Location, infrastructure, usage all factor into this. Taking the example of unimproved land. If I buy a piece of the said land near a town and don't use it for anything I just pay the tax on it and effectively lose money, right? What if the city builds infra near my land that makes it effective now to develop? Should I pay more tax now? It's still unimproved. Should I pay more tax in case of a rezoning if I could potentially build a house but I don't? See how I actually created one class of land by substracting from another!

If I can buy and afford (ie have the capital) to hold land for the long term + I can see where new developments are going to take I will be incentivized to hoard land. I can also make the case that it's undeveloped and I should pay less tax.

Now there is land that just sits there when it could be used for farming. Now we are having food and housing shortages.
I always figured that 4-digit and 5-digit ASNs were "cool" to a certain crowd but seeing them at the bottom of this auction page just seems like lunacy.

Sure, IPv4 blocks have reputation but I've never heard of the equivalent for ASNs, especially ones that have a small number of digits.

32-bit ASNs are very easy to come by from all registries and there are lots of them. Most all BGP implementations have supported them for a long time so there shouldn't be a reachability issue.

Am I missing something? Is this just plain vanity?
To all the chemical engineers:
(And computer engineers for that matter)

Your time is coming. The rest of the hard engineering disciplines have had their failures and now we have licenses and accountability.

The amount of damage one bridge can do is limited, but the amount of destruction caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals and authoritarian enabling surveillance tools is unlimited.

The civil engineer will be held to account for his failures. Hopefully, soon, the same will be true for the likes of your professions
Isn't this already how it works?
I think most people who are looking for windows ISOs are doing so to avoid win11.
I'm also one of those people. I learned both Vim and then Emacs + evil-mode, used them for a decade, and then one day I changed computers, couldn't be bothered to set up .vim/.emacs.d and stopped using them except for Vim for topical config edits.

Now I like to have a GUI that has things like a right-click menu instead of having to rely on maintaining muscle memory for everything.

Of course, another part of that, I think, is becoming older. Mastering some aspect of the computer or software like Vim just isn't interesting to me like it used to be.
I think gp was arguing against the idea that there was a "problematic last step" where society does nothing about problems once they are discovered - not against the idea that innovation can bring unforeseen problems.

I don't think there was anything remotely close to a scientific consensus, or even a respected minority view, that fossil fuels would cause dangerous global warming in 1912, but correct me if I am wrong.
Surprised to see no mention of Hyper https://hyper.is/
You might look at these:

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Oscilloscope_comparison

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Logic_analyzer_comparison

etc.
I got a Boox note air 2. It's an e-ink device/android tablet/e-reader/note-taking.

You can install any app on this device. I find it's acceptable to code with web-ides like replit.com. But my main usage is reading and note taking.
A new connection between topology and quantum entanglement
From the BBC their complete set of Raymond Chandler, their 1981 Lord of the Rings radio drama, and their Hobbit radio drama.

From elsewhere Martin Shaw also does an excellent Hobbit, plus a brilliant Silmarillion. The 2007 Dune narrated by Scott Brick (et al) is a really good edition, and Best Served Cold narrated by Steven Pacey is also a good listen.
"Newsom’s draft proposal includes a potential forgivable loan for PG&E for up to $1.4 billion and would require state agencies to act quickly to clear the way for the reactors to continue running."

"Environmental groups depicted the move as a “dangerous” betrayal of the 2016 pact.
“Legislators should reject it out of hand,” said a joint statement from Friends of the Earth, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environment California."

"Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the plan would provide sweeping exemptions from environmental rules, including the California Environmental Quality Act."
Anything except building the most straightforward infrastructure for their current distribution system. Regas stations so that they can get LNG from the sea.
It's only contrived in the way all art is contrived. The very idea of an 857 hour move mostly filming the bridge of a containership is a contrivance in the extreme.
I think it's still as crazy sounding! We send shellfish around the globe and back to get them de-shelled. Not because they do it better, but cheaper. And for the company doing it it makes sense, since they benefit, and the now unemployed countrymen get compensated by the government, ie. taxes, ie. everyone.

And yes, of course there's always one more step that leads you to where you got in the end. Nobody established a new shipping route and built a new dedicated ship just to start de-shelling in China.

It's like when you look at some complex software that has a batshit crazy architecture, spaghetti code, 5 different code styles, hacks and is half procedural half OOP, and whatever else you consider a crime. But then you look at its history, how it's almost 30 years old, started procedural on a different OS, how its requirements vastly changed and extended over the decades in ways nobody could possibly anticipate, and suddenly, most of the crazy things don't seem so crazy anymore if you know the story behind the individual "crimes" committed. But thst still doesn't mean that looking at the whole picture can't reveal a batshit crazy codebase that you wouldn't touch with a 5ft pole if you can avoid it.
> Because Ctrl+W is provided by something called TTY, and the other three are provided by the shell

This is more complicated (or simpler?) than what the article explains. Or I might be really confused. But if you strace bash while typing in stuff, you see clearly that it is reading in characters one by one, including ^W, and handling them itself. I don't see TTY doing much magic here at all:

read(0, "h", 1) = 1
write(2, "h", 1) = 1
read(0, "e", 1) = 1
write(2, "e", 1) = 1
read(0, "l", 1) = 1
write(2, "l", 1) = 1
read(0, "l", 1) = 1
write(2, "l", 1) = 1
read(0, "o", 1) = 1
write(2, "o", 1) = 1
read(0, " ", 1) = 1
write(2, " ", 1) = 1
read(0, "w", 1) = 1
write(2, "w", 1) = 1
read(0, "o", 1) = 1
write(2, "o", 1) = 1
read(0, "r", 1) = 1
write(2, "r", 1) = 1
read(0, "l", 1) = 1
write(2, "l", 1) = 1
read(0, "d", 1) = 1
write(2, "d", 1) = 1
read(0, "\x17", 1) = 1 <-- bash reading in ^W!
write(2, "\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x1b\x5b\x4b", 8) = 8