skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nearly 1,000 obesogens with such effects have already been identified in studies with animals or humans. They include Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics, and the phthalates, plasticizing agents used in paints, medicine and cosmetics. Others include parabens used as preservatives in food and paper products, and chemicals called organotins used as fungicides. Other obesogens include pesticides and herbicides, including glyphosate, which a recent study found to be present in the urine of most Americans.

It feels like modern, Western, society is like living in a big Petri dish. It’s one big experiment in which we’re swimming in chemicals that we later find out interact with us and each other in negative ways. We should have reigned in these kinds of “innovations” decades ago. Americans are now urinating carcinogenic pesticides, rainwater even in most remote regions in the would is undrinkable [0], and we’ve had strong evidence for a while that some of the constituent components of commonly used plastics disrupt biological processes in humans and other animals.

In 50-100 years people will be looking back in horror at the kinds of self-inflicted suffering we’ve produced. And for what? Money? Convenience?

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40859859/rainwater...
There’s an important few paragraphs in the middle of the article:

> The biggest reason is because Goldman’s customers have been with the bank for less than two years on average, according to people with knowledge of the business.

> Charge-off rates tend to be highest during the first few years a user has a card; as Goldman’s pool of customers ages and struggling users drop out, those losses should calm down, the people said. The bank leans on third-party data providers to compare metrics with similar cards of the same vintage and is comfortable with its performance, the people said.

“People with knowledge of the business” is likely journalistic code for “insiders (even the CEO being criticized) speaking off the record,” so should be taken with a grain of salt. But it seems like important context.
Zeihan has compelling arguments. I like the way he integrates geography, especially knowledge of agricultural, mineral, and transportation advantages some countries have, demography, and economics. He overstates the "demographics is destiny" aspect of his analysis. Japan, for example, is navigating a demographic decline relatively well. China will probably have a more difficult time if only relative to the CCP's ambitions. But China can continue to improve the quality of life for Chinese people if they don't do anything really stupid and end up isolated like Russia.
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Ah, so not directly HTML's fault. Thanks.

It's just the confluence of Quoted-printable transfer encoding and the tendency for HTML emails to embed links split up and in non-href and other tags that end up not getting rendered on my thunderbird fork in text mode which means I have to view source and deal with the Quoted-printable URLs.
Do you have neighbors? The Roomba may be able to connect to the internet even if you never give it your wifi password or pair it with your phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk
My title was recently changed to Sr Software Engineer. I only have about 3 years of experience (though I would say they are some good quality years spanning a ton of different properties and projects).

I just happen to be at the top of our small (less than 10) team of in house developers, so tricky things are escalated to me and I do my best on them.
Also, since monarchs have to be politically neutral, which is another absurdity on top of an absurd situation, a monarchy lacks the powers that a President has in parliamentary republics, of dissolving the parliament and calling elections.

The UK has been stuck in crisis mode more than once, because the Queen couldn’t say “fuck it, let’s have some elections because the current state of affairs is damaging the country”.
It is only a hopeful sign if you believe humanity can successfully navigate a demographic inversion the likes of which it has never seen before, while managing the changing climate.

I do not see how this could be the case.
They're just tilting at windmills. It's already difficult enough to catch cheaters in chess, where there are, at most, a few dozen candidate moves in any position. This is a space with infinite candidate moves.

Best case scenario is that they catch a few people who have no idea how to create art otherwise. But, short of an exam-like proctoring system where art can only be created under complete supervision, I doubt there's anyone in the whole world who can reliably distinguish a creation that is 90% AI / 10% human from 100% human.
FWIW, the money sanctioned under OFAC is still that of the owner so there is a process in place that has a semblance of the rules of law. However, getting that money released by the bank is nothing short of a herculean effort based on cases I have seen over the years.
I've put 200 Useful, funny and weird sites into one database
Database of 200+ useful, funny or weird websites. This is a living resource and will change over time, you can submit your selection to one of the tags! Hope you'll find something interesting for yourself!
It's creepier because it's connecting it to real life people's accounts, meaning anyone can then trace that person in the video and find out so much more about their life or stalk them etc.
I don't think "this is a problem for everyone" really precludes both informing people about the problem and hoping there is a solution to the problem. Just because Apple it "better", doesn't make it "good".

I personally feel some sort of regulatory framework around data collection and sales is not too much to ask.
Really? Do you have any references for how much money the Royal Family takes from Canada?
Russia carried it from 1917 all the way to the 1950s, and even defeated Nazi Germany almost alone (albeit with substantial late manufacturing help from the US). China has way better mechanisms available to it than the SSRs did, and doesn't rely on any help.
> The AirPods that dig into my ear canals and make me mistake audiobooks and podcasts for my own thoughts…

Neat, is that an iOS 16 feature?

But seriously, there are things you can do to reclaim your attention span. Here are a few:

https://medium.com/make-time/six-years-with-a-distraction-fr...

https://hulry.com/ios-15-focus-mode/

https://www.wired.com/story/grayscale-ios-android-smartphone...
My map is very detailed. Down to a few inches. It also has me label rooms, so it knows my Living Room vs Bedroom vs Bathroom.
Linux was inevitable as there was no GNU licensed kernel anger there was a need for one. If not Linux, something else would have emerged within months.

New browser is not inevitable, as the need for free-ish browser is already satisfied.
Mr Smith has a real for delivery contract, not a more common contract to own for some amount of time but no clue who is on either end. As such if you buy from Mr Smith you get real goods, while from someone else you may discover that you created a short squeeze, and not actual material is available: they may have to pay you a ton of $$$ to get out of the contract, but you don't actually get anything delivered.

If you really want the actual good and not the dollars, then you should by buying contracts backed by real goods that cannot be shorted. By contrast if you just want to make money there is more money in buying the contact that is a short with no material behind it. Of course knowing when a short squeeze will happen is left as an exercise for the reader - meaning I have no idea when this plan can work out only that once in a while it does.
Of course its attractive to criminals. Same reason they love cash. Doesn't mean that we should ban cash
It doesn't screw up anything. The ecosystem is changed, yet this happens all the time.

Rivers naturally shift on their own. In North America, the land is still rebounding from the last ice age.

And it's not like the land is rendered hostile to life. A river becomes a lake.

And as there are beaver dams which can be seen from space, I'd have to say Beavers impact rivers far more than our measly few hydro dams.

It's normal, natural for rivers to be dammed.. it happens in nature all the time, unless you believe beavers are unnatural?
To me, it's ability to build good abstraction that differentiates senirority of an engineer.
The primary argument I'm seeing against Plain Text Email is "But I like formatting!"

OK.

But there were probably better ways to achieve lightweight formatting options that didn't include "Let's embed a full web browser in our email client."
For artists who continue to paint, or use other physical means of expression through base materials and sell them as physical works, this entire AI art surge remains largely irrelevant in a practical sense. A buyer or patron who wants real, physical art will still need and want real, physical art, and I don't see an AI imitating much of that easily any time soon.

The people or organizations to which AI-churned art appeals to most desire commercial visual churn. They are the same people who would in any case have least cared about art in its more creative, communicative forms. And there's nothing creative or imaginative about the results of machine-generated visuals. They're the very opposite in fact, visuals created literally mindlessly.

If anything, I can see AI art giving a new breath of life and interest to real man-made art, much like industrial food production gave organic "local-grown" food producers a chance to brand themselves with a distinct, desirable identity.
If you don't want to login to Twitter, here's the link in the post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
From memory that was their second price increase for some customers (server auction customers) in 6 months. Some saw higher increases, some lower.

new price 34.80 Euro old price 26.20 Euro Starting on 2022-03-08 (notified 2022-01-21)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022698
Why is it HN's job to fix someone else's breakage of the web's standard behavior?
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It was, though? And continues to be. In the mid-90s, you could pretty easily find illegal material without looking too hard. It was already illegal by the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, an early Internet bill which mostly said "illegal porn is still illegal, even if it's on a computer", and it also required producers of pornography to keep detailed records on talent & crew in the production. By the mid 2000s, large sweeps of enforcement happened, and thousands of studios without proper documentation and recordskeeping shutting down. The CIPA act required schools, libraries and public places where children could be to install internet filters, and make policies preventing children from viewing such material.

Pornography isn't illegal in the US, it's pretty well-regulated, and once the Internet started entering mainstream culture, it quickly adapted to the existing legal framework and culture that was already there.

This is, of course, a very US-centric view, but so is a lot of early Internet history, along with its culture.
Multiple features are normally developed in parallel. It's good practice to keep up to date with the latest develop/master to avoid surprises at later stages.

Rebasing your work onto the head of master before merging it in, versus cherry-picking the relevant changes from your branch onto the head of master, are perfectly identical in terms of end result - whichever workflow is easier for you will achieve the same thing.

And of course you can get conflicts if multiple people are developing over the same files - this will happen regardless of using merge, rebase, or cherry pick (or even patches over email). You fix the conflicts when merging / rebasing / cherry picking / accepting a patch.
Some art, technical and scientific illustration in particular, requires a great deal of precision, and ability to interpret information. That work isn't going away any time soon, and is similar to what is required of professional translation. A lot of art does not require that.
yes, it is 2.4 mm thick, vs an ordinary ccard that is about 0.8mm thick - so the thickness of three credit cards, not exactly meeting the no-bulge goal
Can Dall-E be extended to generate 3d models?
I consume multiple times more sugar than the average person, and I'm thin as a rail with a healthy metabolism. Sugar in itself isn't likely to be bad. Sugar in addition to a deranged metabolism is probably bad. Fixing the deranged metabolism, (which is likely to be caused by various environmental factors) will probably be the best solution.
> though it seems like a very rare event that should not be the sole basis for the underlying platform.

not rare, 12,000+ unique users on just the ethereum network alone

only a handful would be from large scale hacks, a bigger handful from phishing

even the treasury's estimates were that less than 20% of use was illicit, it is a totally new standard to vilify it based on whatever it is vilified for

https://dune.com/poma/tornado-cash_1
Ask HN: How to get out of making CRUD apps?
Past few years I've been feeling more and more that no matter where I look, no matter to what companies I talk to, a lot of the jobs in the market around me essentially boil down to be exactly the same.

- A basic app (just because it’s thousands LoC, doesn’t make it less of a CRUD app)

- Deployed on AWS/Azure (rare occasion GCP), using pretty much the same setup to deploy

- The difference is the copy - quite often even most of the styling is similar…

Only challenges so far came from having more customers on the app at the same time, but even then it leads to more conservative tech choices, nothing else of note.

Yes, I know my skillset is quite generic - heavily JS/Node/React based, with a few years of experience in Python and very light knowledge of some lower level languages (had some passing interest in Go, Rust, no commercial experience to back it up).

I went through quite a few industries, but at the end of the day, all of them just feel the same. Working on a platform for a hedge fund felt no different from building for a retailer or a real estate company.
Everything behind the scenes is so much of the same that unless the devs intentionally made some random tech choice or decided to use a barely stable new framework - you could hardly tell them apart from code PoV.

I’ve tried startups - but majority of them, until a pretty late stage are mostly smoke & mirrors, where you do everything to acquire customers while pretty much lying about the capabilities of your tech. Can be fun in the beginning while figuring out what the product is, but so far, all of them end up being a CRUD app, just with a different skin.
When going large corporate, you get an extremely small part of the bigger stack to work on, which might be interesting first time around, but gets old after changing the search bar for who knows how many times that year for marginal gains (yes, while the changes are marginal, I do realise they can translate into millions every month).

I’ve had little luck of going for roles that do not directly correlate with my current experience. It seems that recruiters have very little interest in talking about any roles other than ones that fit my current stack exactly (node/react/python). Even had one that was a bit more direct than others and blurted out - “Why would you want to change with so much experience in your current stack”. I get it, easy payday for them if they hire someone who can work full on from day 1, but there's nothing in it for me to encourage a change.
Sadly, recruiters are often the gatekeepers for a lot of the roles and as far as I can tell, unless I’m an easy hire with experience in the stack being hired for - they have little interest in a “wildcard”.

So here’s the question - is there a way out?

Any experiences of a major transition and how did you pull it off?

Is contracting the only way - accept that I'll be making CRUD apps and might as well maximise income from that?
So exactly how do you propose we calculate how dangerous nuclear power is except for deaths per TWh up to now?
You keep claiming how dangerous it is, yet you post no numbers at all. Perhaps because the numbers don't look so bad?

If certain species of wild mushrooms now being inedible in the Scandinavian wilderness is the worst you can come up with, considering how much life nuclear power has given by keeping us warm and fed, well I consider it a pretty decent trade off.

FWIW I work in the energy sector(with wind power no less) and how people can still have such strong anti-nuclear opinions boggles my mind. We need every non-fossil energy source up and running ASAP, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, all of it.
combustion (burning) byproducts are the primary harmful particulate matter created by cooking, whether that be from gas or food. like most issues, incidental contact isn't enough to worry about, but if you're a cook (commercial or home), then you're likely getting meaningful exposure. it's not an issue for kids unless they're doing the cooking every day. the range hood should either be vented to the outside or sufficiently filtered (or both), but most filters are inadequate, so venting to the outside is the more foolproof strategy.

but this is likely a very small factor for nearly all people. cars (oil) and electricity generation (coal and gas) create most of the harmful particulate matter in the air (and water and ground), so that's where we should focus our anti-pollution efforts first and foremost.
The problem you'll run into with this is a mobile CPU is $150 (at most), and the display panel and GPU will each cost more than a dedicated CPU. What you really want is a cross-platform roaming profile, but don't hold your breath for that.
>They obviously are not and cruising through stop signs (and sometimes killing children!) is the norm. If EVs encourage this driving style that is another strong point in favor of "electric cars can't solve the problem of cars."

You reap what you sow. A grid of 4-way stops where the traffic flow is not appropriate for them is a textbook perfect way to train drivers to habitually roll stop signs.

I swear sometimes it seems like urban planners are hellbent on re-learning everything they learned in the 1920s.
yes, it is 3.2 mm thick, vs an ordinary ccard that is about 0.8mm thick - so the thickness of FOUR credit cards, not exactly meeting the no-bulge goal
Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds
> "Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as scary and deadly for us as your 'friendship and brotherhood'" - Zelensky

Wow. That's quite the dismissal of Russian rhetoric/propaganda.
Microeconomics in Computer Companies: Commoditizing Complements
Globally trade what? The taxes would be denominated in local currencies like all other taxes, and currencies are already traded.
No. Also, there were several recent articles/speeches from various AML/BSA/Fraud folks to lower that amount even further for several purposes including CTR. For better or worse, BSA has become its own industry with a lot of money riding on keeping things annoying to regular people ( and barely doing anything to stop actual criminals, who have skills, patience and resources to bypass all the safeguards ).
web.dev seems to give it a poor score primarily because of the YouTube embed … so perhaps Google should heed its own advice?
So what you're after re fan control exists, in this bloody fantastic app: https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases
It seems their main point is using HTML is trading accessibility and security concerns for prettification. Why is a reference document an acceptable trade off of accessibility and security concerns for prettier formatting but a personal email isn't?

They could have made this site plain text and followed all of their own guidelines, but they didn't. Instead, they wanted to make the site look prettier to get their message across with additional formatting plain text can't handle. They're reducing accessibility and increasing security issues just for their own superfluous desires.
Huh? As far as I know, Salesforce has no affiliation with Mormons. The founder, Marc Benioff, has never been a Mormon nor anyone in their C-suite as my few minutes of research shows.
At my employer it extends to staff/principal engineers.

They do the same low-level code work, but I'll hand it to them that they are some of the best engineers at the company.

The difference is that principals left the company for a couple years to come back for the higher pay. Staffs were promoted while staying at the company.
I find there's a much simpler argument that, incidentally, leads to a similar conclusion but without the necessity of any conditionals (such as internationalism). Our power was primarily derived from our economic superiority. Even in cases of hard power, our military was and is little more than a reflection of our economy. We're much smaller than other nations such as China and India, but an overwhelming technological and developmental edge largely nullified that difference in the past.

But that technological edge has been shrinking for decades, and there's no need to think this trend won't continue indefinitely. And as technological differences shrink, economics starts to become more of just a function of population size. And 340 million will never be able to maintain a competitive balance against 1.4 billion. We can already see this happening in many ways today, most innocuously from "American" companies increasingly kowtowing [1] the line. Beyond the fun wordplay, the word has an appropriate etymology.

When the next great economy is already able to casually influence the backbone of our economy - the backbone of our power, it largely signals the end of one hegemonic influence and the unfortunately probable advent of another.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowtow
In dollar amounts, yes.

But what matters in this analysis is calories, not value.
I’ve never used mastodon, but it’s hard to take your judgements at any value when it seems like you haven’t either.
Not sure how rare it is. There is lots of people who got crypto-rich. It is easier to donate money that came easily...

I would assume making a nontrivial donation in fiat privately is also very difficult.
Yeah I mean this is a cool concept assuming that you get to choose which "archetype" you progress into, rather than it being dictated by the organization you're working in. It's less cool when you get forced into the people management archetypes, which I feel are way more common in many places, because of the natural progression that GP described.
Maybe all of Finland can be connected, but can you really expect enough wind and solar with just Finland? Doesn't large chunks of Finland have pretty long nights for a decent period of time?

If you are going to interconnect with solar and wind you have to spread it across multiple countries. Of course we are seeing how well that worked out with gas and Russia right now.
Currently, the adaptation cost is too high. The ecosystem that I work in has many small, distributed, fast-startup applications. While I could create a fairly complex client server application written in Julia to work with its limitations, and write compact fast startup applications to communicate with it, the complexity and time investment is undesirable. Again, to use Julia here one must bend to the ecosystem's weaknesses. I think the community truly doesn't understand what a general purpose language is. If you compile with LLVM startup really ought to be a non-issue. Look at the startup of GraalVM, and they began with Java bytecode.
It's pretty hard to separate correlation from causation. There's way more sources of carcinogens than just car generated pollution. And lots of them will tend to correlate with poverty/working class which will tend to correlate with living next to highways.