skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awful. That's the only floss I can use that doesn't disintegrate between my teeth. Where does one go to find pfas content in items like these?
Land has these properties, yes. We will never see mass affordable ownership of desirable land. Fortunately, that is almost irrelevant to housing issues. Legalize building vertically.
Sure, also "early access" video games. People are willing to pay a lot for them because it is still ambiguous enough that everyone can imagine it will turn out into specifically their future vision.
To be clear, the US political party that starts with a D has been actively spreading awareness and working to ban the substances you mentioned since the at least the 1960s, while the party that starts with an R will never stop being in denial about their dangers.

But we're all guilty of buying products created with those substances and driving cars so.. the fault lies with each of us on an individual level.

What breaks my heart is that the people with all of the money and power actively prevent the rest of us from inventing better solutions. They've created an entire economy around dead end service jobs instead of automation, to keep us distracted and disillusioned so we can never catch a breather and disrupt their meal ticket.

If it were up to me (it will never be up to me), I'd work towards creating open source alternatives for all resources necessary for life. I'd make a wiki of everything people work for (food, water, housing, incidentals) and make each one sustainable and as close to free as possible. Money would be optional and used for aspirations beyond necessity.

It would be kind of a Jetsons solarpunk future where a backyard robotic hydroponic garden grows all non-animal macronutrients. Eggs and kefir would largely replace meat. The house would be made of 3D printed hempcrete and recycled materials. Power and HVAC would come from free (7 year amortized) photovoltaics and passive solar-thermal heat pumps connected to the buried irrigation system.

This stuff is honestly so easy that I can only blame conspiracy for lack of adoption. Or maybe extreme laziness. Whatever the reason is, it's defeatist.

So I'm trying to deprogram myself and incorporate these solutions into my own life. So far I've only succeeded in buying a used electric car though. It's just too hard to save the $10,000 to fix each problem one by one, so I pay out more than that to be a consumer and stay trapped in the matrix. Where are the loans for these solutions? Where's the political will?
Right from the new macbook box. This issue is likely regional because apple sell chargers with different socket depending on the region. Some of them probably have proper grounding support despite being 2 pin.
that works for him, and he is intimately familiar with his software, also he's a programming savant. I find as a consultant I often get dropped into poorly documented code to fix it and a good shell environment and IDE/debugger are invaluable especially for spaghetti python code with references that are nonobvious until you can hit a breakpoint and decipher where the hell an object is coming from.
Same in France for an M1 air, never got a shock but the buzz is always there.
Well you're not wrong, but that was still the exception, and on a smaller scale. So maybe food wasn't the best example to get my point across. Like you said, they had to, it's not like some clever Roman said "hey you know what, I'll just buy cheap stuff from overseas to make more money and then fuck our farmers." Nobody sent locally harvested produce for processing to a country half around the world and then back. Or look at when ancient Rome and China did trade. That was for luxury goods, not for basic household items the average Joe would buy.
And start a world war, which will definitely save a bunch of money.

Especially today, with Europe being an energy hostage due to their unreasonable optimism for magic infinite availability of energy, you would expect better analysis coming out of Imperial.

People don’t care about the future costs of energy. They care only about the costs they pay today.

India gladly took discounted oil from Russia, despite the political implications.

China is still running full on coal, despite their people suffocating in pollution.

Germany never built LNG regas stations, because they were fine with having exposure to Russian gas.

You know who transitioned away from coal overnight? The US. Was it legislation that made this happen? No it was the sudden discovery of frac gas that made natural gas dirt cheap.

So our opinions do not matter. Today’s energy cost is the only thing that matters.
The 'do bugger all about it' wasn't aimed at society. It was aimed at internal company reports. PFAS was known to be harmful by DuPoint but they kept making it. Nicotine and tobacco industry. Global warming and oil industry.
https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/cap1.pdf

For those interested, I recommend Michael Heinrich's biography of Marx ('Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society'; volume 1 covers the young Marx up to the end of his studies and delves deep into the intellectual and political context of that time in Germany and Europe. Very informative.)

His 'An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital' is on my to-read list:

https://files.libcom.org/files/Karl%20Marx%20and%20the%20Bir...

https://files.libcom.org/files/Michael_Heinrich,_Alex_Locasc...
That's a classic! That was already the government propaganda (at least here in France) at the time of Chernobyl, that everything is fine and kids should play outside like any other day.

The same kind of situation happened 3 years ago in Rouen (France) where a Lubrizol chemical factory burnt down and the government said everything was just fine, before taking emergency measures, before finally saying that everything was fine all along. It was not the first incident with that plant, and the richer people did not wait for the release of the list of chemicals involved in the incident to leave the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubrizol_factory_fire_in_Rouen
Seems more to me like saying "someone should make an rsync that's more like Dropbox".
This[1] has been a useful resource for me. It has lists of PFAS chemicals and products.

[1]: https://pfascentral.org/data-hub/
Economic interdependence before WW1 wasn't even close to how much it is today.
If you are referring to the latest discussion about a specific plant (Isar 2), the company running the plant (e.on) wants to shut it down. The discussion came up because the TÜV Süd (internationally mostly known for certifying that dam in Brazil one year before it killed 270 people because it was not safe and broke) certified that the plant is safe, but pretty much everyone involved claimed that the certificate is bogus (and the public image of the TÜV Süd is pretty bad anyway).
> Because the only method shown to prevent war in Europe is co-dependence.

It’s a bit unilateral. As long as Russia can save enough money or have other buyers for its gas and oil it can just shut the supply in the middle of winter. Germans can of course refuse to export their products to Russia but people freezing in the middle of winter is a bit more dire than not being able to buy the latest Mercedes.

So, like other sibling comment pointed out, it turned more into dependency than co-dependency.

I could see, in the previous years, maybe the Germans wanted to move way from NATO and integrate with Russia but seeing Russian behavior since the Chechnya war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80... I wonder if anyone warned the Germans not to get in bed with the Russians. That was 20 years ago.
I would argue that is only half-correct as an argument (not whether the German people believe it to be true or not).

The EU was of course promoted primarily to avoid the repetition of the World Wars, and it is indeed succeeding at it within its scope, and has also so far been a great influence outside of it as well.

However, it is a mistake to believe that economic interdependence is the reason for its success, or that interdependence is a disincentive for war. The period from the late 19th century was highly globalised, with much international free trade, and increasingly so up until the 1910s. However, that didn't stop war breaking out between wealthy military powers over nationalistic grudges, and neither would it in the 2020s.

I am not knowledgeable enough to fully understand how the EU has broken the cycle of war between European nations, but it has been something much more profound than economic interdependence. Germany was probably right in not wanting to keep close relations with Russia, especially before 2008/2014, but shot itself in the foot by naïvely assuming that co-dependence—or rather, German dependence—would in any way stop Putin's regime from aggressive expansionism.
Does having blanks in resume invite more scrutiny from recruiters?
If most of the internet is on the AWS that is a pretty understandable argument, no? Mt. Gox was responsible for 70% of Bitcoin transactions at its peak.

Most buy coins through exchanges, via fiat as an intermediary. They upload a driver's license which the intermediary keeps on file for KYC purposes.

If Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general is supposed to decentralize finance how is it going to attain that goal if "doing it properly" requires installing a miner or exchanging cash for a flash drive in a Walmart parking lot? We're talking about the typical person globally whose conception of the internet might just be Facebook.
It sounds like a way to insert code a majority of the developers would tell others about, like actual spyware.
I’m drunk right now, so I can’t give you much rebuttal honestly.

But it’s kinda funny you said this:

> And you say this from your vast expertise in global economics?

Because I actually have a masters degree in international economics (with a focus on China) from Lund university in Sweden.
John Carmack talks about Keen, Doom, Quake, and more
I can't access the page from tor, but i'd be interested in seeing those studies. Do they account for extreme heat applied, or for mechanical harm to the coating? These two scenarios are mostly inevitable over the lifespan of a non-stick pan, and they're typically blamed for being the cause of the actual food poisoning.
"Plenty"? What fraction of the world's population today do you suppose could feasibly choose to live as hunter gatherers?
I used to be a cast iron fanboy. Seasoning, polymerization, yadda yadda and all that jazz.

Then I got an induction stove. I now consider cast iron to be overrated.

The heat retention makes an induction stove pretty pointless (apart from the energy efficiency I suppose) with cast iron.

I'm getting old and my wrists aren't as good as they used to be, so slinging around cast iron pans and pots really hurts after a while.

I bought various sizes of Tefal Hard Titanium+ pans and I really like the weight, ease of cleaning, but most of all the heat reactivity.

Might look into carbon steel, but I'm a bit wary of how it's going to be to clean.
People still play Quake?
"There is an incredible John Carmack interview on YouTube that weighs in at an impressive five hours and fifteen minutes. But it’s totally worth it. And because it’s been nicely sliced into chapters, you can dive into the topics you care about most. I listened to the whole thing."

Amazing talk.

Long, but absolutely worth watching.
I'll gladly read anything you've written on the topic, sounds like you're pretty knowledgeable.
Congratulations on your black belt! I'm a white, but won't be even advancing to blue with my training (in)consistency, haha.

Yeah, competitive scene is a whole different beast.
There are a few things you left out:

1. Doing things right often results in releasing faster. But wildly unrealistic schedules sometimes cause teams to reject the right thing infavor of the "quick" thing you pay for ten times over before release.

2. The word "debt" implies that it can be paid off. In many cases, removing the complexity introduced is simply inteactable.

3. Complexity has a huge cost throughout the entire stack -- testing, building, fixing bugs, etc. A shortcut may just be a shortcut, but if it introduces additional complexity, that's qualitatively different and you need to be careful.
If you buy them in France, I believe they do come with 3 pin chargers. They used to anyway.

But yeah, their aluminium body used to sock me every so often with their 2 pin chargers in the us. Was always kinda surprised they never sold 3 pin chargers like in any other developped county !
It’s not like each individual banana was artisinally grown in a flower pot. They literally grow on trees.
Yes with a but: the article says over the last 140 years the rise was 21-24cm, and the last 40 years saw a rise of 10cm. That strongly implies an acceleration of sea level rise that is more than any measurement error could account for.

I dislike climate models for my own personal reasons... but they do predict continued acceleration. For example, in 2019 the IPCC predicted that by 2100 (80 years) the level would rise an additional 0.6-1.0 meters.

So the prediction is accelerated rise, and is backed up by observed recent acceleration.

A 3' increase in max high tides would probably cause some issues.
I mean modern computing is built upon many layers of abstraction, where you only need to understand the technicalities of the thing you're specifically working on, and the tech you don't have time to focus on will seem like "magic" due to abstraction.
Is the notable delay between keyboard sounds and video rendering due to the SSH/software?
yeah I much prefer having both numbers "% over running average over _ years" and "% over last year" both are important and most likely available to whomever is writing the article, but we get a clickbait title :)
Which it doesn't need to do when you tell it to make an iso.
the mid-section of this article is just rephrased paragraph after rephrased paragraph, each less philosophically sound than the last.

we get it, the film is an art piece making a point about how capitalism compresses time and space into inconsequential objects. it was a big undertaking schedule-wise. you don’t have to say this backwards and forwards 5 times

compress your article space and time-wise
I use gluten free cast iron orbital sander for maximum smug.
It's a company openly founded on "we can make money if we ignore the law". That they weren't trustworthy seemed pretty obvious from the start.
FWIW Tom's of Maine Naturally Waxed Antiplaque Flat Dental Floss works well for me. Pretty thick though.
Ask HN: Aging and learning. Does it become more difficult?
I have to deliberately force myself to learn new things. It could be anything new for me. I find that as I age I have to stop myself from hardening in my ways. I have to constantly be on guard to not fall into my comfort zone. It was much easier to pick up new things when I was younger. What are your suggestions on how to make it easier to learn new things?

Edit: I’m 30
The scary thing for me is that it's in the rain, so it'll be in crops, water reservoirs, trickling into the water table and into drinking supply. We have to stop this right now.
No, you can't just "scale up" mining by a factor of 1000. And yes, that's the kind of increase we'll need to make storage systems viable. I don't think you fully appreciate just how massive an undertaking it is to provide the storage required to make intermittent sources viable. It's estimated it'll take 3 weeks of storage to make intermittent sources viable: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...

By comparison, the world uses 60TWh of electricity daily.

There is no realistic plan to build this amount of storage. You have not, and indeed cannot, honestly make the argument that it's within our capacity to build storage at such a scale. Hence why you point to untested storage systems like compressed air or hydrogen electrolysis. We don't know that they will scale, since we have not attempted to build them at scale. You take this absence of evidence as proof that they will scale instead of recognizing it for what it is: and absence of evidence since hardly any of these storage systems have been built. This is your pattern of commenting: you concede that the storage systems that we have built at scale don't work. Then you point to the storage systems that we haven't built at scale and assume they will work at scales dwarfing anything we've built so far.

We do not have the capacity to build storage to make intermittent sources viable. You just assume that every new and untested storage system will be super cheap even when it's built by the terawatt hour. And then you call people dishonest when the point out that you're the one being dishonest about our experience with energy storage.
Right. In a system where people feel forced to work crazy hours in the middle of the ocean; in a system where someone else pays the externalities of petroleum; in a system where the raw materials for a freighter can be dug up by people who may not need to understand why anyone would need bananas shipped to them; in a system rich people have shaped so that it feeds them whatever exotic fruits they desire... only in such a system can shipping bananas to be thrown out be considered "cheap because economies of scale".

Economies of scale means individual suffering turns into statistical noise.
Because the environment is so much less polluted and working conditions are so much better in non capitalist countries?
California governor proposes extending nuclear plant’s life
I'm more impressed this is distributed as good old text :)
How come mine doesn’t do this?
(2020 mbp, standard 2prong charger, often plugged into very old receptacles or extension cords)
Eh maybe its because I've spent a lot of time studying neuroscience and psychology, but I think the jump from the split brain phenomena due to cutting the corpus callosum to having multiple internal 'people' is kind of a large jump. It also seems obvious to me that parts of your brain are communicating, and if you cut a large connection, then they will need time to form new connections and ways of perceiving the world.

And of course we all contain many layers in terms of personality etc. I also would be careful at taking Freuds words too closely -- a lot of his works were not backed explicitly by science, and many psychologists don't support his ideas.

But of course maybe I'm just engrained with traditional thinking -- I can suggest listening to Jeff Hawkin's podcast on Lex Fridman. He has some interesting novel ideas on neuroscience that pushed me to think a bit more abstractly.
precautionary principle is the answer. industry must have the burden to prove something is safe before using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
As I age, I've learned to distinguish "not being excited" (languor) and "being tired" (exhaustion), which to my younger self felt like the same thing. The former is not always caused by a lack of energy, but also excessive idleness, especially if I'm doing things that requires attention but also isn't intellectually stimulating.

When the author refers to "normal tired" and "dead tired", I think that echoes with my two states. I don't quite think of them as existing on a scale, but the experiences sound similar.

Doing stimulating things (exercise, reading aloud, singing) can usually bring me out of the state of languor. Just getting that adrenaline rush is enough to jolt me back to life (and thus I don't think of it as recharging; more like a jump start).

If I'm exhausted, I can feel gravity in my joints, and I'll have to rest. Regular sleep, exercises, and generally keeping a good health is the only way I can combat exhaustion.
There is insufficient evidence for "likely many safe". You can't just start throwing that around.
We shared the mistake so others don't accidentally make the same assumption; I'm sure a few people either learned it for the first time or appreciated the reminder. Rest easy this never made it to prod.
Contact Mega
The change doesn't affect self-updaters, only a app trying to update a different app from a different developer (which can still be done, but with some additional checks I don't remember).
Is it available anywhere? Article says was on Vimeo but that it was taken down.

I don’t see any info on their page either https://logisticsartproject.com/

I wonder how large (in file size) the final cut was and what codecs were used. Such slow moving footage probably compresses well, but at 857 hours of footage it’s probably still big.
I don't post here often - but this is freaking BEAUTIFUL.. Thank you for sharing this HN!
In 1999 the Russian prime minister was flying to the US with a diplomatic visit. While he was flying to the US he was told that the NATO started bombing Yugoslavia. He reversed his flight in the middle of the Atlantic and came back to Russia.

So what same method are you talking about?
As a German I don't care. I just want two things:

1. The energy company pays market rate insurance for their nuclear plants. Not "we take the profit, taxpayers pay for the disaster"

2. The energy company sets up a trust to pay for the safe storage of nuclear waste and cleaning up the plant should they go bust (again "we take ...")
DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357470 - Aug 2022 (107 comments)
Well is that a bad thing? Seriously, all they do is make extremely expensive to make a copy of the keys if you loose one. If they want to steal your car, they do it anyway, especially with modern cars that are less safe than older one.
How do you "get screwed" if someone else uses BNPL? The connection isn't clear.

FWIW, there is an argument that cash users "get screwed" because merchants set prices with enough margin to cover credit card transaction costs. Those costs are what pay for your protections and cash back. Merchants may offer cash discounts, but they're not obligated to.
Doesn’t happen to mine in USA at all and my houses wiring is very old.
Climate change is no longer about the environment, and that is why we see so much movement now.

I would argue PFAS isn't about damaging the environment either. It's about human health. Same goes for CFCs.

It is getting problematic that 'being green' these days can either be caring about the environment and biodiversity like green-peace. Or it can mean 'doing whatever is needed to stop climate change and keep harmful (to humans) chemicals out of the environment'.

Those are actually two very different thought processes with different people who support them. Sharing the term is not working out very well.
Hi there, creators of Logistics here. Super happy to see this featured on Hacker News.

Feel free to ask us anything!

official site is logisticsartproject.com
There's https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee if you want to use VNC as a client on your remarkable. I've used it in the past to run Chromium on a server and display it on the reMarkable: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TnNE1tdzvrwphJ8N6
It's quite frustrating as it's a uniquely North American issue. I also never see this being fixed, as I'm fairly certain iMessage dominates in markets where the iPhone also holds a majority market share as well (makes sense). If you're an iPhone user in north america, many of your friends use iMessage so you don't care about this. If you're an iPhone use elsewhere, you still don't care as you most likely use whatsapp, telegram, line etc.
Because of the Brussels Effect.

The EU wanted a single copyright term for their single market, so they picked the member state with the longest term (Germany), made that the EU-wide standard, and then put in a reciprocal extension clause basically designed to force America to go life+70.

At the time Disney was pushing hard into the European market[0] and having uniform copyright rules between two major trading blocks would be a huge boon to them. Keeping the mouse slightly more under their thumb than it could have been otherwise was just a bonus.

[0] Even when it was losing them billions of dollars, such as with the EuroDisney debacle