skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The news here is not that air pollution is linked to cancer, but about what the underlying mechanism could be:

> "However, the biological basis for how air pollution causes cancer has remained unclear. Unlike smoking or sun exposure, which directly cause DNA mutations linked to lung and skin cancer, air pollution does not cause cancer by triggering such genetic changes."
Interesting. One question totally non-sequiter to the toxicity conversation, but why do people that use maps orient the image in a direction other than North being up so that they have to add a label to the image indicating the direction of North?
The intention wasn't to compare wealth with happiness, but was to draw a comparison between two different domains, with one that some people can objectively understand. The idea being that in finance, you can for example buy an object (collectable, gold, virtual currency, ...) and it just sits there collecting dust. It may go up in value, but to realize that value you have to sell it, then you don't have it anymore. Whereas investing in something that generates value (dividend paying stock, education, tools for your business, ...) gives you returns without having to sell it. Although in most cases you still have to put in work (you have to work at education, and work to utilize it, and you have to apply work to your tools to generate value).

Same is true for other non-financial areas -- it takes work to make the connections and maintain friendships, and there is effort that continuously goes into the processes that give you rewards for those friendships (you can't just be one-sided, take but not give, and there is not magic formula, you just muddle through it the best you can).
I included the comments about Russia because Yandex is participating in Russian propaganda and censorship.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/russia-yandex-...
It depends on the person. For me the commute was the "moat" I built to detach my mind completely from work related matters until the next day.

Personal experience matters a lot, too. I did WFH for two years in 2009-2011 and it was mostly fine. Now, although not optimal by any means, I endure my 1h 15 min commute daily. After being locked down in my house for more than 70 days in 2020 while having a very stressful work experience I could not escape from, I don't want to WFH ever again.

Others may have different experience and goals.
One nice thing about html/css/javascript is that a lot of it works even when some of it doesn't. It's not an all (or even almost all) or nothing proposition.
Can’t law enforcement use search warrants in their own jurisdiction?
Then why not use one of the myriads of static site generators?
The "cost to supersize" seems to me (but I have no proof, maybe I have more money now) to have gone down relative to the meal cost, so it's more and more of a "no brainer" upgrade.

Maybe if they were required to price it backwards, where the meal costs $x and you can get a ten percent discount if you order small, that would "trick" people into eating less.
This isn't about the fraction of illicit use. A large fraction of Americans with numbered/anonymous Swiss bank accounts did nothing wrong with them - a much larger fraction than tornado cash users. However, they were still banned for US citizens due to US KYC rules.

The land of free speech is obsessed with being able to trace money as it travels. No surprise they would go after a service whose explicit purpose is to break the chain of custody on money.
None of these things has an efficient end in laundering money. That's in contrast to Tornado Cash, which was designed to launder money.

In other words: you can use a hot dog stand to launder money. But if you were to intentionally establish a hot dog stand for the purpose of laundering money, the government would be absolutely correct in seizing your stand.
After going to the end of a long post, I'm disappointed to not find any latency or throughput efficiency metrics. Author seems to claim he has a very popular high-traffic blog and it is super fast, faster than all the popular web servers serving static pages. Where's the performance data to prove this?

edit: web.dev measure gave this blog post url a performance score of 30/100 which is quite poor.
typo commits might be really useful, especially if you can bisect a bug from one of those commits. it happened to me.
> A good manager shouldn't need to be an expert in what their staff is doing. The manager should be there to help them let them do their jobs and stay out of the way.

It's not an either/or, it should be both. A good manager must be at least good at anything their staff is doing and a good manager should be there to help them, let staff do their jobs, and stay out of the way.

If the manager isn't really good at (or an expert in) the role under them, then by definition they can't be a good manager, because they couldn't actually help their staff. But a manager shouldn't be doing their staff's job (they shouldn't be micromanaging), they should have trust in their staff to do good work, and only get involved when explicitly asked, or when something has gone too far off the rails.

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It should be a "trust but verify" situation. You should trust your team to do work, and stay out of their way to let them do it, but also know enough of the specifics to be able to verify any of it and correct when necessary.
Our salary is what we require to actually survive in this world.

Most people have psychological needs related to their work. (Maybe you're not one of them. I'm not trying to assume here.)

It's not "childish" to feel a need for validation, for respect, for actually feeling like the work you do has value and is valued, or like you are valued as a person.

It's human. 100% normal and expected.
Network Analysis of Political Partisanship
I suspect that automation at construction time is also generally positive. Basically, have a tool that will lay everything out, but then leave it in such a way that you can manually move things around. And once things are "built", have them be fairly locked in to what was chosen at construction.

This would move web design to be a lot more like many other design tasks. Even if something parametric goes into designing type faces, as an example, on build, that is all gone.
That may be true if law enforcement authorities have unlimited resources, but in practice they don't.

Imagine that a hypothetical service is used at 99% for illicit transactions and 1% for legitimate ones. Is the best outcome for society to spend say 5 million dollars to shut down that service, or 500 million to figure out who is using that service maliciously and sue only the people who are using it maliciously?
Stephen Fry: 'What we have here is a failure to communicate'
You're going to struggle to find beauty in some areas (like business software and a lot of other tooling). The subject matters as much as its expression. The same is true with art - you're not likely to find paintings of burning tire mountains in the Louvre.

But software has another kicker like math in that you'd likely need to be familiar with the subject to know the hard problems, present or previous, and why a solution is elegant or beautiful.
Target fixation is apparently how many motorcyclists crash. They see the tree and then ride directly into it. The first thing they teach a rider is looking where you need to go. It doesn't come naturally at first, because it often means you're not looking in front of the bike, and have to trust physics will do its thing. That body-bike connection needs to develop over time and become instinctual, the mind needs to be taking out of the equation. It really takes time. That's why it's often a horrible idea to start learning to ride well into adulthood, it's harder to learn these embodied habits.
It is irrelevant.

Using your argument, you could stop all support right after the devices stopped being sold.

So it was being sold for 15 years and the software has been in support for 15 years and it is old so we stop selling it and supporting it at the same time.

Now hope you are not the person who bought it on the last day...
Maybe. But getting a raspberry pi is still next to imposible.
Exactly right, tire and brake dust are still awful with EVs, though contra the slight implication in the headline, it's no worse than the current situation with ICE vehicles. And the brake dust aspect may slightly reduce due to regenerative braking.
Properties in the USA, laundry, deli, dry cleaners, often use for money laundering.
> Not even Google started from scratch. They started from WebKit and used their billions to overhaul

And WebKit didn’t start from scratch either, it started from khtml.

A few years ago there used to be 4 active browser lineages, now there are just 2.
I relish the commute as the gap between personal life and work life. It allows me time to decompress and means I'm rarely thinking about the office when I get home.
It’s reductionist but yes - “washing” money is a core part of their function. Note OP didn’t say laundering.
I Went Viral in a Bad Way
I think the poster was saying they are fine with that amount if laundry, because its more important for a free internet to exist.
Getting an air quality monitor during covid really blew my mind when I saw the amount cooking pollution and how long it can linger. No one should be cooking inside without a vent running or a window open.
Yeah, PM2.5 is listed as a known carcinogen, and there is strong epidemiological data supporting the link between respiratory tract cancers and pollution.

This work provides a mechanism for how this happens, where air pollution promotes the transition of cells into a malignant state, without directly damaging DNA.
Folks like to hate on lobbyists (including myself! very much so) but this is exactly the function they serve. They inform the legislators on what legislation would help their industries succeed, and encourage it across the line.

I don't think the crypto industry is lacking in funding enough to be able to hire lobbyists, so I'm not sure why we might blame a legislature that can't be experts in literally everything (setting aside the fact that they tend to be fuddy-duddies for other reasons, it's not even theoretically practical that they could be perfectly informed on everything) for not having made perfect laws around a new industry.
Honestly, time zones should be abolished. We should live with the same synchronized 24 hour clock everywhere.
Hey thanks for the feedback!

So, when I was first starting out, even at an “in office” company, it took time to get close to my coworkers. I saw this problem with really any new employee. It took me months to figure out my boss also liked “it’s always sunny in Philadelphia” and basketball, and rap etc. If I had known this from day 1, then I would have connected with him more from day 1. That would have taken out anxiety or the discomfort of asking difficult questions. For him he would have subconsciously taken more time to make sure I had everything I needed. No matter what we say, we always help people more when we like them.

^ now imagine all that in a remote environment. Usually takes much longer to fit in. In my new fully remote company it took 6months- a year to settle in. Why not just cut out all the leg work of discovery? If someone around me at work likes FIFA as much as I do, then let’s chat about it. It speeds up the social connection and makes work more fun cuz you would genuinely have more friends there.

Also, a big thing about who uses it and who doesn’t. As normal you will always have the early adopters in the company, the new people and the HR people that will use it. But when the results are seen more often, managers will ask their teams to use it. A profile takes less than 3 min to create. So from that point on you will get connections via your most loved topics weekly. (I would love to log in on Monday and know the new guy we just hired loves playing fifa).

That will make people come back and grow the network. The network effect within the company should be great enough to get more people into it and using it.

Btw I really do love your feedback. We have the LLC, the mvp etc etc. And actively talking to HR execs. So questions like these are great.
Ask HN: Wrong choice of SaaS vendor, what did it cost?
Are you witnessing wrong vendor deals is SaaS? When closing with a vendor are the people making decision going for business-need, product-market fit or relationship and promise to customize to business needs?

In recent meetings with prospect we hear, wrong choice on vendor and budget loss. Either the vendor never launched, or contract was such that they were forced use the vendor.

Any insights will be helpful to learn the SaaS landspace better.

Some lost their jobs because of the wrong call.
"Electric vehicles are estimated to emit 5-19% less PM10 from non-exhaust sources per kilometre than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) across vehicle classes. However, EVs do not necessarily emit less PM2.5 than ICEVs. Although lightweight EVs emit an estimated 11-13% less PM2.5 than ICEV equivalents, heavier weight EVs emit an estimated 3-8% more PM2.5 than ICEVs"

So. It depends. It's sometimes slightly better, sometimes slightly worse. But it doesn't really solve the issue.
I feel like you inadvertently confirmed the authors point. In your “complicated” example, in order to visually show the baseline after rebase you removed the earlier C3, C5, C7 and C9 commits. But the authors point is that merge commits just need better tooling that can make it clearer what the baseline is!
These are the pros but you forgot to outline the cons. One of the big issues with green energy in the Baltics is the lack of grid capacity. You can have solar panels fitted but unless the grid has enough throughput for you to be able to actually sell it back it's not worth much. These days the costs to upgrade the local grid are prohibitively expensive so it's not going to happen unless the government does it.
I don’t know precisely why I think this advise is so amazing but this brought a (wry) smile to my face.

I think it’s similar to good parenting for sleepovers. Pop in, let them know that you’re there and glad they’re there and that you want them to have a good time, then give them space / go to sleep. Ideally, they won’t even be aware that you went to sleep, but do think that you’re willing to give them space.

This might be my most rambly comment on this site, but genuinely appreciate this comment.
AIUI, recommendations can come from multiple providers. If very detailed recommendations that take into account the fact that you’ve already bought a vacuum timeout, then your recommendations come from a dumber provider that is based on recent searches.
I have no reason to think it can't - but the whole premise of malls needs to change. Outside of hyper-specialized, specific products (niche hobbyist sort of things) that require hands-on use/experience before purchase, it's impossible to compete with Amazon on general retail, so malls need to provide an experience.
However, those same specific products and the like aren't big money-makers and can't sustain a large retail operation (for the most part - I'm excluding things like Tesla storefronts).

I've seen malls with amusement rides, mini-golf, arcades, rock climbing walls, mom-and-pop food halls, etc. Those are the malls of the future. Nobody is going to congregate around big-box clothing stores or CD/DVD stores, or chain restaurants with crappy food.

I would personally love to see a mall built around community experiences - think cooking classes, LAN gaming centers, woodworking classes, gyms, etc..
We're not reliant on coal at all here for energy. I didn't mean to imply that we should, more that we can _only_ use it for heavy industries where we don't have a suitable replacement yet, e.g. steel manufacturing
Sorry, I guess I read other things into "hateful/racist/bigoted" than reasonable. Conspiracy theories have become so insanely dangerous that I saw red flags. Might be a language issue, I am from Estonia.
> For me the commute was the "moat" I built to detach my mind completely from work related matters until the next day

You seem to have made a positive outcome happen out of a negative situation. If there wasn't the commute, you would have built that moat through different ways without losing time every day. And the cognitive cost.
>poor financial decision

>listed for 90k and sold the next week

It probably turned out not to be a such poor financial decision for the seller, in this case. I think the whole "mobile homes don't go up in value" rule is no longer true, if we continue to see the degree of housing price increases / inflation we have seen in the last 3 years.
I think it is similar to asking what converts a good athlete to a professional. Mostly good genetics with a smaller portion being hard work and a good environment.
It's really awesome to finally see this landed. Congrats to the team and to the PyTorch community!
If the goal is to compete with Chrome/Edge/Safari directly then yeah some spunky team of ragtag volunteers isn't going to be able to match what the megacorps can bring to the table. Even Firefox struggles here.

If the goal is to have something that's usable in limited cases for a self-selected set technically competent enthusiasts, then this is well within reason and not without value.

What I find particularly interesting is that there's an intent to support WebAssembly. That may turn out to be overly ambitious, but if they succeed there's a lot of potential upside to having another WebAssembly engine that's independent from the major browsers.
Stop thinking there is a set of KPIs they can attain to get women to think they are worth spending time with.

Think different: Stop listening to Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, etc. They told you which KPIs will get you women. They won't. Stop thinking you can convince women, or anyone who isn't a libertarian that libertarianism isn't a naive infantile philosophy.

There is way too much to list. Just stop all of it. Everything that goes with those surface symptoms is poison. Women can smell the faintest whiff of it. It makes you ugly clear through to the bone, no matter how buff you are. Being a gym rat probably makes it worse.
Also:

The Feynman Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the solution.

Implying that the "thinking" happens in the head, not on the paper.

There's a quote for everything, and its opposite, too. Sometimes from the same guy.
The MUFAs in olive oil and a-linolenic acid (like from flax seed) are natural GLP-1 agonists:

https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...

Edited to add:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/fo/d0fo0...
The change happened with the emergency manager in place and was signed off by the state government. Moreover, the change was TO Detroit water and Detroit was also being run by the state at the time.
Truth is most humans are only capable of 4 hours of deep work a day, even less if some of that was really mentally taxing work such as debugging or figuring out nasty trade offs involving multiple codebases, domains, and tools

P.S. Someone has to say this.
> so long as the browser worked with standards compliant modern websites

Define which subset of standards would qualify for "standards compliant". Don't forget that quite a few of standards (for example, HN's darlings like bluetooth) are barely drafts.
Banning the use of Tornado Cash is one thing - I didn’t see any Swiss bankers arrested or prosecuted for money laundering during that move.
Because YouTube "is 99.9999999%" piracy? Hmmmm.

Piracy on YouTube isn't 0%, obviously. But it isn't in the same league, or comparable to torrenting.
There are those who seem to belong to that community and who seem to literally force themselves. This may be the result of the religious nature of the project as hinted by its religious code of conduct. Just check the different comments in this thread.
I hear NK uses it too, it should probably be made devastatingly illegal therefore.
This prompted me to look on Ebay, where Pi 4 prices are mad (>£100!) but the previous generations seem to be more normal. Wonder if it's worth me digging up any 3s I have and selling them.
You could also just filter down to merge commits when you look at history. I think if gitlab and github supported this, many people would change their minds about squashing or rebasing.

I don't have a problem with squashing per se, especially when it's a private branch for a single developer. The problem is when you have multiple developers working on a feature branch together, or when you have to merge in a branch with a fix or feature that has not yet been merged up higher.

My bottom line is I want as few merge conflicts as possible, and I want to see the real author and a relevant commit message if I'm digging into changes to figure out what went wrong with something.
Programming existed before git. Programming will exist after git.
I started off as just another uptime monitor, and just kept adding features as my customers suggested them. Eventually I took stock of what I had built, and started building it into what it is now.

Some more takeaways from the start of the year here: https://onlineornot.com/what-learned-running-saas-for-year

You'd also be surprised at how many competitors ceased to exist over the last 18 months.
There is, it's further down the page: https://useplaintext.email/#why-plaintext
Sure there is: https://useplaintext.email/#why-plaintext. (I don't agree with it, but it's there.)
The rise of transnational food companies helped make this an almost ubiquitous global development in developed nations, the growth of obesity in our neighbor to the south Mexico over the last 40 years or so is a pretty good example.
Far less narcissistic than shutting down the entire country to make them watch your Renaissance fair cosplay session.
No offense, but I think that's the problem with our approach to browsers. People want the shortest route to deliver an open source chrome that's not chrome. And Chrome won. That's it. Even Firefox, an amazing feat of engineering by itself, couldn't even grasp the userbase that Chrome has.

The if-else nightmare logic it's exactly what drives developers away and a surefire way to kill a project before it's even born.

Since the success of Ubuntu as a distro, people started to think of the FOSS ecosystem as a competitor to commercial software but gratis. And IMHO that's a wrong approach to Open Source.

We should go back to the roots, forget about competing, focus on what's the best not for the end users but on what's fun for the FOSS developers, and bring back the hobby on open source projects. Maybe someday, this project will become huge. Maybe not. Dunno.
I, too, have used Typora for years whilst in Beta. I appreciated it's approach and features enough that I've paid for it.

Alternately, there's a free editor called MarkText that is maybe 85% there as compared to Typora. I use this on my work Windows machine, which is pretty locked down due to corporate policies.

References:

• https://typora.io/

• https://github.com/marktext/marktext#marktext
It's not just internal governance. But it definitely didn't help.

Google has been caught sabotaging browser based on user agent.

In addition to its strong marketing machine.
They probably work on a successor. In the meantime, the DAN Cases A4-H2O or the FormD T1 are worthy replacements.
If you're looking for more info, there is a whole book that goes beyond the content of this episode. I found it to be an informative, and eye-opening (albeit disconcerting) read.

https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare-ebook/dp...
Timeline: Nuclear power in the United Kingdom (2011)