skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis of the book 'Countdown' is that this is largely due to widespread plastic and other endocrine disrupting chemicals. I believe this is one of the most important risks to humanity, after climate change, and global war. So far, I've taken some lifestyle changes to combat this:
1) Threw out all of my teflon cooking pans
2) Refuse to consume food in heated plastics
3) Throw out teabags (they have plastics). Use loose leaf tea
4) Will soon be throwing out liquid body wash and moisturizers, and replace with simpler oils

This is an emergency, which would probably require we do a revolution on use commercial packaging and plastic. But I don't have much faith, given how entrenched this industry is. Right now, industry is pushing BPA-free packaging, but I strongly suspect BPA-free plastics have similar endocrine effects, we just haven't studied them long enough.
I grew up thinking we were headed for a Star Trek-like future. But it's looking more like its gonna be Fury Road by way of Children of Men.
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>Commuting sucks, they should pay us for it.

At the end of the day, the amount of money that can be allocated to workers is finite, so we have to choose some way of distributing that money. Doing that by how much you "worked" (ie. commuted) might seem superficially fair, but comes with other issues like encouraging people to live far away because they no longer bear the costs. I don't think most people are on board with subsidizing commutes.

>We should get more to work in an open plan office, for dealing with a shitty boss, or for a miserly vacation policy too. Unless there is a cost, they'll keep doing it.

You're free to do that by voting with your feet, and companies pay by having less applicants. If they're not "paying for it" (via higher wages or poorer quality candidates), then that probably indicates it's not a big factor for the average employee (ie. they might complain about it, but they won't give up a $300k job for it).
Seems like the author just completely made up the numbers here, as well as all underlying technical assumptions. In reality, based on previous public information, Twitter runs most of their infra from their own datacenters, and the number of tweets per day hit 500 million back in 2013.

Not to mention, the author also completely ignores read traffic (which is the majority of traffic for a social network), replication/redundancy/HA, so many other things. It's just a garbage article. It appears the company hosting this blog pays randos to submit posts on any topic? https://www.cohesive.so/write-for-cohesive
I knew someone would throw in a Monty Python reference eventually. Just had to wait for it.
It's not possible to hard brick. Only soft brick. You can always recover back to stock if you mess up using the official flasher with the stock rom.
Ok thanks for the clarification, I think I understand your point now. Lockdown protesters in the west were often portrayed by more liberal media as anti-science, while that same media portrays Chinese protesters as brave freedom fighters.

From a high-level this point makes sense, but I don’t think you can compare them too closely because of dramatic differences I mentioned above.
On HSMs; purpose built hardware that tries to make it physically and programmatically impossible to extract the private key material. They're generated there during a key ceremony and never leave a HSM. They also generally require like 2 or 3 officers of the compnay with smart cards and personal PINs to actually do anything using the root CA (it only signs an intermediate cert like once in a blue moon or something).

I'm pretty sure the CA/B Forum mandates all CA private keys to remain on HSMs (checked through audits).
Speaking as a brit, the opium wars were an abomination but China does like to (or find convenient) playing the victim.
Checkmate is forbidden because it's what the engine suggests. Check with a single escape is suddenly the goal.

But if you're in check, do the rules say you need to try to escape it? Or can you take the opportunity to capture the queen, thumbing your nose at the false threat?
Thanks for posting! The demo video is very impressive. I am surprised this story didn't get more traction here.
Hey EU please use SecondLife, i would love to see FlintenUschi in Heels, Angelwings, lots of Lindens and some sexy latex lingerie. That could even attract some 40-80 y/o, maybe the buddy's from McKinsey can come too...you know the party animals per-se.
The idea actually comes from when I followed CJ Chivers (expert on weapons and war correspondent) A lot of his work is done by gathering spent munitions on the battlefield and then tracing it back to its source. The life of a weapon and munitions is usually well documented (and can go back decades!)
Good thing a stock price is about the future growth of a company. Hell, many public companies are valued at billions but still take a yearly loss. They are "subsidizing" their own growth in a sense.
I have no idea what the deal with FTX.us is, but the main exchange can plausibly say they had no customers in the US and did no business there. American IPs couldn't enter the site.
I think many people would be surprised at how many couples have done IVF recently… I wish I had reliable numbers for it.
I'd say this is a feature. The bigger risk here is using a work mac with your personal icloud account.
If you like Recoll you might also like Docfetcher.
Curious if you have sources for this. I agree wholeheartedly that there are some difficult issues affecting men, socially and academically, but always struggle to back that opinion up with any meaningful facts/figures.

As one of my friends said, "Positions of power are still predominantly held by men, but the average man is lagging behind the average woman". Not sure if this is necessarily true, but sometimes it feels true. It's also unfortunately a rather un-PC opinion to share.
There's the myth of the "left-wing media" again.
Comparing Google and ChatGPT
We think Lua is great and in many ways, Wasm has yet to catch up! I do think it's still early days for Wasm, but it will.
So let me get this straight. I can't be paid in it, and I can't pay rent with it or buy groceries with it.

Sure, there would be hobbyists who conduct trivial transactions with their monopoly money. But no, this would not even be a small fraction of overall economic activity in such a scenario.
I did record all voice tracks, yeah. If I do this again, I'll probably use a lot of generative tools now. :-D

Hope you find the transformers module useful!
Sorry, but isn't that a good thing? Putting aside the fact that we're (at least in Europe) paying for a pension fund we'll never have, isn't reducing the amount of people on earth the right solution for basically all problems long term?
Test your AWS WAF knowledge
How long are we going to sit on our hands and pretend flakes aren't the only way forward?

Am I just missing something?
Yeah, if the number of people shrinks, so does the size of a market, and so do revenues of companies. If you own stocks, those will be worth less. If the number of people shrinks, so does the demand for living space, and the value of your apartment goes down. Etc.
I'll stick to Sony where I don't have to tell them anything. OnePlus can fuck off.
+1 for activity pub support and this thing would definitely be used.
But the entire thread is about delegating the authentication, granting access to another machine or process. You want to give access to one device (e.g. TV) from the trusted one (e.g. iPhone).

Both devices might be very pricey, real, up-to-date machines with TPM and keys and everything you want. The problem is that you can't tell whether the TV is the one TV that the iPhone's owner means to sign in.
> But whether sperm counts are falling or not we need more funding towards artificial reproduction and extracorporal pregnancies

Seems like a pretty extreme solution to the problem of declining birth rates. Perhaps we’d be better served by encouraging people to reproduce through financial incentives and, frankly, positive propaganda.

Part of the problem is that young folks feel like raising children is financially burdensome (fine), but IMO a bigger part of the problem is the presence of negative propaganda (having kids is destroying the earth, having kids sucks, wouldn’t you rather chase your career and party with friends every night?, etc.)
Adobe Animate seems to pretty much the same with HTML5. You can still script things in ECMAscript like you could with Flash.
I don't think netflix or fortnite would force you to use a third party app. Too much negative press and loss of customers.
The machinery of society will presumably evolve to match the number of work-capable people. Automation will likely increase, efficiencies will be found, some services will be cut.

From my perspective (I'm in my 50s) things have been spiraling out of control for a while now. Do we really need a couple of dozen flavors of Mountain Dew? Must I be inundated with advertisements for crap I'll never buy even when going to extraordinary lengths to minimize them? Do we all need a three bedroom house with a three car garage? Do I really need a 200 game backlog on steam?
LOL I read this title as a "Showerthoughts", just stating a funny fact about "normal" chess.
Symmetric encryption is quantum-resistant.

Most modern asymmetric encryption (public key encryption) is not resistant to attacks with quantum computers because modern public keys are based on something called "hidden subgroup problems" which can be solved easily with quantum computers (if they existed).

However, quantum-resistant asymmetric encryption does exist, it is just not yet common or battle-tested.

Of course, all of this depends (as usual) on complexity theory conjectures. Very plausible conjectures, but not yet strictly proven theorems.
Banning is the "easy solution"--just as easy as banning alcohol, drugs, and gambling has been in the past. What banning money exchanges will do is 1) drive it underground to money exchanges being done by unsavory characters who have no issues committing crimes up to and including physical violence, 2) Drive up enforcement costs and create an entire police enterprise whose mandate and funding depend on hunting these unsavory characters, 3) Deprive Uncle Sam of any and all tax revenue from capital gains, etc, etc...

I mean, all of this literally happened with alcohol, with cannabis, etc etc. Are we just going to keep repeating this cycle forever.
Once you get the option choose between using browser native fetch or Axios, the sky is the limit.
GET https://ping.withcabin.com/cache net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT

ubo killed the demo?
Just have to remember to put them back down too
It appears that the flag keeps being undocumented, though.

https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/compile
Got it. Ty :)
What are you doing on a phone where CPU speed matters? Mine scores 364 and I've never felt like performance was a problem.
> many in our age bracket 20-30 year olds are struggling to have children

Wow... I would have thought you were referring to people that were older.

I wonder what the common denominator is there, or if your experience is an outlier. It's obviously noteworthy enough to share. Maybe people that conceive without issue aren't commenting on it as much?
If that is something you need come join the discord and let's work on it! I've been experimenting with higher level languages, specifically quickjs (js) and c#. Python should work from what I know, but I can't speak intelligently to how well it would work.
Fun fact : gold has its distinctive color due to quantum mechanics and the electron's speed around the nucleus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemist...
Those HIV medicines tend to wane in efficacy, so they still end up dying much younger. It's not a solution, just an effective treatment.
Society made religion optional through scientific inquiry. It can make America optional too as no theory of science suggests it’s existence is immutable law.

It’s going to be a real adjustment for you to accept a lot of people are without sufficient this or that in our society and you’re not really going to bat for them.

You have freedom to choose without coercion. Nothing makes your sensibilities sacrosanct to anyone else.
I'm a Catholic and fairly traditionally minded and am surprised by what you're saying since at my church, couples in this age range are on their fourth or fifth kid by the time they're 30.

Even amongst the newest married couples, most are expecting within the first year.

I understand we have different beliefs and such but since we're all in the same environment, how do we explain the simultaneous existence of the seemingly normal-to-hyper fertile?

Surely there is more than just 'its environmental'
This is misleading. Birth rates globally are still above replacement level. Even if they weren't, immigration still provides opportunities for people to move from areas of higher relative birth rate to areas of lower relative rate, should they choose to.
You don't understand - the customer is the advertising agencies.

Everything else is just the feed and manure necessary to keep the cattle returning.
The data being insufficient because it focuses on white men only, because that's where we have the earliest data, which is "colonial" and "white supremacist". Who's the mob again?
Google, by virtue of owning my email for nearly 15 years, has me much more locked in and I don’t own a single Android or Google device.
> Ultimately, Levine and Swan say that local and global actions are needed to reduce or get rid of these chemicals in our environments.

I think it's unfair to characterize Swan's take as trying to 'offload all responsibility to "consumers"'. Presumably the "get rid of these chemicals in our environments" doesn't just intend "our" to only mean some hyper-vigilant subset of the population. One can advocate for removing these from the marketplace while simultaneously having the stance that for now, in the world we actually live in, people can take some steps to limit their exposure. People are always going to ask "but what can I do _now_ to protect myself and my family?" and it's not unreasonable for an expert in the field to try to have an answer.
Don't worry Chuck Norris, you have so much testosterone they were thinking of renaming it after you.
When I first tried inpainting, I used an image of this old poster for a game called "Myth II: Soulblighter" to see if I could expand it into a larger version.

The request was blocked because "violence was detected". It was a hand-drawn image of a video game boss attacking others with a scythe (it looked like this: https://www.mobygames.com/game/myth-ii-soulblighter/cover-ar...)... there wasn't even any gore, he was mid-swing. I'm a 50 year old guy, I'm not a 10 year old boy, and I don't need to have "violence" (seriously? a hand drawn painting of a video game scene??) censored from me. This nanny-state upstream censorship is BS... I'm just a nostalgic old nerd who wanted a UWQHD version of this image, for sentimental reasons, and this misguided rule stopped my joy.

There is absolutely no evidence that plain nudity, nor hand-drawn violence (which has pervaded comics, video games and movies for decades) has a detrimental effect on human psychology. And yet... the Puritan influence still exists!

At least, if I ran SD 1.5 locally, I could render whatever I wanted to again, but now I can no longer do even that if I use the 2.0 model. This is dumb. Apparently, I'm a "freak" for thinking this.
If evil.com requests access to manage my Twitter account, and it fools me into accepting, why does it matter how the token is transported? Evil.com now has access to my Twitter account.
>Study aims to quell fears over falling human sperm count

At least they are open about the fact that they have determined the conclusion beforehand.
A metaverse, not Meta's metaverse. That's precisely the kind of confusion FB hoped for when they changed names, much like people that confuse git with GitHub.

In particular, they contracted a German company to build a digital space. What a waste of our money.
> And most other common STDs are completely curable

So is the flu or COVID or the common cold, but they are inconveniences which can last for 20 days or more.

If a vaccine were to become availible then the inconvenience would be limited to the day of the shot.
Models are downloaded only once and then cached, and not repeatedly like the OP mentioned. Source: Me. I've developed it. If you disagree, are seeing a different behavior or have further questions, please reach out in the repo: github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/
I wonder how we can even determine what effects microplastics have on the human body when they are so prolific that every human on earth has them. Comparing with humans from the past has many challenges, so I guess the best we can do is comparing people that have more to those with less.
To make it easier for everyone to understand the other posters point...

a double blind test can help you determine the most effective way to cause pain to a monkey, but it will never answer the question of whether you should be doing so.
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The test results are impressive (assuming that they are not just cherry-picked) against the competition; but I seriously wonder if anyone really cares. People will tell you all day that performance is super important, but in my experience they rarely 'put their money where their mouth is'.

For example, I created a new kind of relational database engine that also has some very favorable performance characteristics when compared with popular engines like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Sever. I have posted some videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5ZqfwQXWI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE) and done a number of live demonstrations of my system showing how it is many times faster with both transactional and analytic operations across a wide variety of queries.

I certainly didn't expect mass adoption where everyone decided to dump their old system and move to mine (it is still missing some important features). But in a world where even a 50% increase in speed should be seen as significant; the reaction has instead been crickets! You would think that showing a 10x improvement at anything would result in some serious inquiry by at least a few hundred people. Instead, I seriously wonder if anyone cares about speed anymore.
You list several fairly serious failures that are absolutely not typical.

I have had to restore my iDevices from backups several times. It has worked flawlessly every time.

I have been syncing my music library from iTunes to my iDevices since well before the iPhone existed. The only times I have ever had a problem with songs not being on the iPhone are when a) I wasn't actually syncing my whole library, but a subset, and I had forgotten which songs I hadn't synced, or b) the songs failed to sync, and iTunes/Finder gave me a big dialog box saying so, with a message explaining why for each individual song that didn't sync. This is true for songs I bought through the iTunes Store as well as those from other sources.

Does this mean I expect these things to work perfectly for everyone, every time? No, of course not. I've had my share of problems with all my Apple devices.

But it does mean that either because of user error or unusually bad products (ie, you got a lemon), your experience is not typical.
> See Socrates' discourse with the slave boy in Meno and the universal desire for justice and happiness that all human beings posses.

What part would you like more elucidation of?
> Drive up enforcement costs and create an entire police enterprise

This is a feature if you're the government.
English certainly has a bad habit of conflating good/bad with common/uncommon.
That seems like quite a lot to do. What I get from that advice is a recommendation to effectively change all of your lifestyle.
FDA approves contact lens to slow progression of nearsightedness in kids (2019)
Genuinely serious question. Is our sedentary lifestyle and addiction to internet and smartphone a contributing cause?
Not sure why "collusion" is in air quotes. They met with a KGB agent in Trump Tower to discuss the lifting of sanctions in exchange for election interference on his behalf, and his campaign manager admitted giving their voter data to the Russians.
Sam Bankman-Fried says he ‘never tried to commit fraud’ at FTX
In 2021, Twitter settled a shareholder lawsuit for $800 million. That's a one-time expense, not an ongoing cost each year.
It's reductionist at best to say that it solves all problems. It definitely creates some others and doesn't solve everything.
https://archive.ph/vgqza
Yo. Number 1 reason I'm not having kids is I don't like kids. Number 2 reason is I don't think it's ethical to intentionally bring a child into a world that's going to be torn to pieces by climate disasters & wars.
It definitely messes with your dopamine levels.
I think there might be something here. I've written about it and I wonder whether the current interpretation of Agile is just another manifestation of our can-do, 'get-ahead', 'achievement society'- - which is perhaps the ultimate cause of burnout. As someone who has tried to promote agile mindsets within organisations, it's deeply concerning.

https://nealdtaylor.com/burnout-trumps-agility/
https://nealdtaylor.com/agile-burn-out/
I think a majority of people do care, but there's not really a way for them to express that in the market. You can't just buy the more expensive product and trust that it's going to be more ethically produced.

It's a societal problem that can't be solved by individual consumers.
Apple famously have total control over their vertically integrated platform. It's called a 'walled garden' for a reason.

They could trivially do this because as it is, they require that all apps are signed. Irrespective of the distribution method. To sign an app, currently, you need a contract with Apple.

They just need a one line clause stating that you can distribute on other platforms if the app also appears in their store.
In my experience it was a stress issue for the couples that were having trouble that I know.

One friend and his wife gave up alcohol, caffeine and meat, it seemed like there was just a ton of stress they had put on getting pregnant for 6 months. It wasn't until after they took a break from trying that they got pregnant one night after drinking.

I think modern medicine somewhat ignores how powerful the human mind is. It is possible that my friend wasn't actually performing as well as he thought he was, also possible that the wife had 'calculated' the exact day that conception should happen. Instead of listening to her body, evolutionarily it would be advantageous for women to be horny while most fertile in the cycle.
Maybe with longer lifespans, people making conscious choices which partner to have children with, and IVF being an option, there just isn't that much evolutionary pressure on sperm counts. Something that reduces your sperm count by 50% but makes you 10% more attractive could absolutely be an evolutionary advantage in the developed world.

Not that I think this is what's going on, but I think rejecting it outright is too hasty.
World population is still growing. It seems ironic you are casting aspersions towards people desperately trying to fight climate change, when you are desperately worried about population decline, when it isn't declining.